From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Date: Sun, Nov 15, 1998, 9:23 PM To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: mail.class >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Jul 29 13:28:54 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: freshman seminar Content-Length: 327 Dear Dr. Wheeler: Your freshman seminar is filled with 15 eager students. But now Plan II has contacted me that they have a very bright student for whom they have no room in that program and would like to see him placed in a freshman seminar. His first choice is your course. Would you mind having 16 students instead of 15? >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Thu Aug 6 09:50:58 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: freshman seminars Content-Length: 1002 Dear Seminar Instructors: Your seminars are all set for the fall semester and I am working on a schedule for the 3rd hour activities. Thus far we have two confirmed dates for the special evening speakers: Dr. Ron Crutcher on September 29th, Coach Mack Brown on October 15th, and Coach Jody Conradt on October 27th. I will send you a complete list when all the speakers are confirmed. In the meantime, I would like to ask you to consider giving a noontime presentation on your seminar as one of the 3rd-hour activities. Last year those instructors who volunteered to do this were well received by the students and this enabled them to know something about the other seminars and instructors in the program. If noon on a week day is not convenient, then name a time. 4:00-5:00 p.m. might be a good hour for the students to come. We will greatly appreciate your volunteering for this aspect of the seminar program. If you have any questions, please call on me. Sincerely, Dave Oliphant, coordinator. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Fri Aug 14 15:45:04 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Content-Length: 2558 Dear Freshman Seminars Instructor: If you will be in class for two hours per week and will be having your seminar students attend the 3rd-hour activities, you will probably want to learn something about what kinds of information they will be receiving at the library workshops scheduled during the semester as one of the 3rd-hour activities. On August 24th (Monday) from 10-11 a.m. and on August 27th (Thursday) from 2-3 p.m. in PCL 1.124, Clara Fowler of the Undergraduate Library will give presentations to FS instructors on the workshops to be conducted for FS students. Clara will entertain suggestions for kinds of information that you would like to see included in the workshops. Even if you are not using the 3rd-hour approach, you may want to attend one of these two sessions in order to know what kind of library workshop will be available for our Freshman Seminars students. If you would like to attend such a presentation but cannot on one of these two dates, please let me know and we will try to arrange another time. Below you will find the monthly schedule of library workshops that have been set up specifically for the seminar students to choose from for their 3rd-hour credit: >9/3 3-4 >9/10 3-4 >9/14 10-11 >9/21 10-11 >9/24 3-4 >9/28 10-11 >10/1 3-4 >10/5 10-11 >10/12 10-11 >10/15 3-4 >10/19 10-11 >10/22 3-4 >10/26 10-11 >10/29 3-4 >11/2 10-11 >11/5 3-4 >11/12 3-4 >11/16 10-11 >11/19 3-4 >11/30 10-11 >12/3 3-4 Also, another 3rd-hour activity will be lectures based on FS courses, which will be given by the FS instructors, and evening lectures to be delivered by non-FS speakers: John Kroll--Tues. Sept. 15, noon, Battle Collection on 2nd floor of Ransom Center William Nethercut--Friday Oct. 2, noon, UTC 3.102 Margaret Berry--Mon. Oct. 5, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Norman Hackerman--Mon. Oct. 19, 3-4 p.m., in ECJ 1.202 Harriett Romo--Wed. Oct. 28, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Vickie Hampton--Thurs. Nov. 5, 4-5 p.m., Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Maria Wells--Mon. Nov. 16, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Coach Mack Brown--Thurs. September 3rd, 7 p.m., outside area east of fountain between Theatre Department and Ex-Students' Association (in case of rain, Batts Auditorium) Owen Temple--Thurs. September 10th, 7 p.m., Welch 3.502 Ron Crutcher--Tues. September 29th, 7:15 p.m., Music Building Recital Studio 2.608 and after 30 minutes to McCullough Opera Lab Theatre Susan Marshall--Wed. Oct. 7th, 7 p.m., Geology 100 Coach Jody Conradt--Tues. Oct. 20th, 7 p.m., Gregory Gym >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Mon Aug 17 07:49:02 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Content-Length: 2968 Dear Seminar Instructors: It has been suggested that I furnish you with the specific topic for each lecture. Here is the list of instructors and their topics: John Kroll will speak on Greek sculpture--Tues. Sept. 15, noon, Battle Collection on 2nd floor of Ransom Center William Nethercut will speak on the interpretation of significant works of literature, cinema, art history, and music--Friday Oct. 2, noon, UTC 3.102 Margaret Berry will speak on the history of UT student life--Mon. Oct. 5, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Norman Hackerman will speak on Science in the Interest of Society--Mon. Oct. 19, 3-4 p.m., in ECJ 1.202 Harriett Romo will speak on American race and ethnic relations--Wed. Oct. 28, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Vickie Hampton will speak on financial fitness for students--Thurs. Nov. 5, 4-5 p.m., Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Maria Wells will speak on Italian culture--Mon. Nov. 16, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Other instructors have volunteered and as soon as I can arrange for lecture rooms I will furnish the dates and topics for additional 3rd-hour talks. The evening lectures will be on the following topics: Coach Mack Brown on athletics and academics--September 3rd at 7:00 p.m. at fountain between Theatre Department and Ex-Students' Association; Owen Temple, a former freshman seminar student, will perform on guitar and sing his own music (he has just released a CD of his work)--September 10th at 7:00 in Welch 3.502; Dr. Ron Crutcher on concert music, which he will perform on cello with a University ensemble and guest composer--September 29th at 7:15 p.m. in Recital Studio in Music Bldg. 2.608 and afterwards in McCullough Opera Lab Theatre Dr. Susan Marshall on single-parent families, economics, and education--October 7th at 7:00 p.m. in Geology 100 Coach Jody Conradt on team work in athletics and life--October 20th at 7:00 p.m. in Gregory Gym Also, another 3rd-hour activity will be guided tours of the exhibit "Lithography: The Modern Art and Its Traditions" in the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (formerly the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in the UT Art Building). This show includes works by such masters of the form as Honore Daumier, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, George Bellows, Diego Rivera, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein. These tours will be limited to 25 students per tour session, so please notify me as to which sessions your students wish to attend and I will keep track of the number of students and notify you when a session is filled. Below is the list of times for the guided tours from which your students should select a date that fits his or her own class schedule. Monday, September 21 11:00-12:00 Thursday, September 24 11:00-12:00 Monday September 28 12:00-1:00 Thursday October 1 12:00-1:00 Monday October 5 1:00-2:00 Thursday October 8 1:00-2:00 Monday October 12 10:00-11:00 Thursday October 15 10:00-11:00 >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Tue Aug 18 10:30:25 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: more 3rd-hour activities Content-Length: 915 Dear FS instructors: For those of you making plans ahead of time, I have four more noon lectures scheduled. Karrol Kitt on Deciding What is Important in One's Life and How to Take Action to Achieve It--Tuesday, Sept. 22nd in GSB 2.124 John Downing on British Television--Thursday, Sept. 24th in GSB 2.124 Carol MacKay on Autobiography in Women's Writing--Wednesday, November 18th in Ransom Center's 4th-floor auditorium Mary Steinhardt on An Overview of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People--Friday, Sept. 4th from 12:30-1:30 in Belmont 962 Also, we are scheduling a meeting of all seminar instructors on September 25th at 3 p.m. in Main 212. At that time we will furnish you with a printed, updated list of 3rd-hour activities. Please come for some comments by instructors who have already taught the freshman seminars and who will share their experiences and suggestions. Refreshments will be served. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Tue Aug 18 10:53:17 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: freshman seminars meeting Content-Length: 101 Pardon my confusion--the group meeting is scheduled for August 25th, the day before classes begin. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 19 09:49:05 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Content-Length: 413 Dear Freshman Seminars instructor: I thought that I would send once again the information about the meeting for all FS instructors, since I gave the wrong month in the first message. We will meet at 3 p.m. on August 25th in Main 212. This is the day before classes begin. Several veteran instructors of the FS Program will comment on their experience and refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Tue Aug 25 07:58:58 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: Freshman Seminars Content-Length: 1692 Dear FS instructor: Just a reminder that today, Tuesday the 25th, at 3 p.m. in Main 212, we will have a meeting of the Freshman Seminars faculty. I will distribute class rolls and printed information on the 3rd-hour activities. President Faulkner will address the group and a number of veteran instructors will share their experiences in teaching the freshman seminars. Refreshments will be served. Clara Fowler of the Undergraduate Library reports that four FS instructors attended the first of two presentations that she is giving to inform FS faculty as to the kinds of library workshops she will be offering to the freshmen as part of the 3rd-hour activities. Clara wrote as follows: "I presented the workshops that we will be teaching this semester and we had some good questions from the group. Instead of teaching the same session all semester, Beth and I discussed breaking up the semester into four topics. I gave out a handout of the list of topics and the dates they are being offered. I also suggested that the students may want to use our new Web-based Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) and gave out the current URL. I'd like to send a copy of the flyer I gave out at the session as well as information about TILT to every instructor teaching Freshman Seminars." I will furnish Clara with e-mail addresses for all FS instructors so that she can send out this information. Clara's next faculty information session is scheduled for August 27th (Thursday) from 2-3 in PCL 1.124. If you were unable to attend the first session and will not be able to attend the second but would like to attend at another time, please let me know and Clara will try to accommodate you. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 26 08:13:14 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: FS faculty meeting Content-Length: 3806 Dear FS instructors: The general faculty meeting for the Freshman Seminars program was held yesterday at 3 p.m. in Main 212 and was well attended--about two-thirds of the instructors were present to hear President Faulkner address the group and to hear from four veteran instructors of the program. Dr. Faulkner emphasized the important immediate and lasting impact of the freshman seminars. He spoke from his own experience with a similar program at the University of Illinois, observing that such seminars will color the students' entire careers at UT by engaging them from the first day of classes and influencing their attitudes in all their other courses right through to their graduation. Vice Provost Ricardo Romo, director of the FS program, introduced the President and the four veteran instructors: Wally Fowler of Aerospace Engineering and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers; Karrol Kitt of Human Ecology; Dee Silverthorn of Zoology; and Bob King of Linguistics. Karrol, Dee, and Bob all three received 5.0 student evaluations from their freshman seminars for fall 1997. Wally began by noting that the entering freshmen were born in 1980 and the implications of this fact. (Dr. Margaret Berry later pointed out that she retired from the University in 1980 but has returned the past three years to teach a freshman seminar.) To illustrate the implications of the students' birth year, Wally passed out a list of "always and nevers," among them: "They have always had cable. They have never owned a record Player (and thus the expression 'you sound like a broken record' means nothing to them). They have always had an answering machine, and now a pager or cellular phone. They never had a Polio shot, and likely, do not know what it is." Wally stressed the importance of giving the freshmen guidelines--his syllabus has grown from three to about fifteen pages. Karrol revealed that she has the students keep a journal, photographs the class from the first day, has them work together in groups, and keeps in touch by e-mail. Dee shared with the faculty her strategy for acquainting the freshmen with the campus: a scavenger hunt (which is being forwarded to you in another e-mail message) followed by a pizza party (modestly crediting this for her 5.0 rating). Dee also discussed the problem of plagiarism and the value of the Student Judicial Services Web page http://www.utexas.edu/depts/dos/sjs/academicintegrity.html, and the fact that attending a football game with its crowd impressed some of her students with being at the University and no longer in high school. Bob King agreed with all the suggestions and ideas offered by the other instructors, saying that he intended to use Wally's list of "always and nevers." He explained that he does not feel the seminars are intended to flunk out the students but to encourage and guide them, to help them have some fun while learning. He spoke of some successes and failures during the three previous years of teaching his Spies, Espionage, and Treason seminar and noted that he now gives the students more historical background because, as Wally had indicated, they don't remember much that happened before the Compact Disc was introduced when they were one year old. Dee Silverthorn's anecdote about her students attending a football game reminded me that last year the program allowed and encouraged attendance at one sports event as fulfillment of one of the 3rd-hour activities. The 3rd-hour activities will be placed on the freshman seminars Web page, which is under Administration, Executive Offices, Executive Vice-President and Provost, Teaching. Please let me know if there is any information that you are in need of at this time. And thanks to all those who attended and participated in the faculty meeting. >From wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Aug 26 14:18:38 1998 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: seminar Content-Length: 1380 > From fowler@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 12 15:03:27 1998 > Received: from mail.utexas.edu (mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.1]) by astro.as.utexas.edu (8.6.11/2.01) with SMTP id PAA17180 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:03:24 -0500 > Received: (qmail 22115 invoked by uid 0); 12 Aug 1998 20:03:23 -0000 > Received: from smf-demo4.facsmf.utexas.edu (HELO fac-224.lib.utexas.edu) (128.83.105.49) > by mail.utexas.edu with SMTP; 12 Aug 1998 20:03:23 -0000 > Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980812150521.007b9430@mail.utexas.edu> > X-Sender: fowler@mail.utexas.edu > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:05:21 -0500 > To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu > From: Clara Fowler > Subject: library classes scheduled for you Freshman Seminar > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Status: R > > Craig Wheeler, > > I wanted to confirm the library classes for your Freshman Seminar this > semester. They are scheduled for: > Thursday, Sept. 3 from 12:30-2 > Thursday, Sept. 17 from 12:30-2 > > Both classes will be held in FAC 224. If you have any questions before > then, don't hesitate to contact me. I look forward to meeting your > students. > > Sincerely, > Clara > > > Clara Fowler > Digital Information Literacy Office > FAC 224 > 495-4447 > fowler@mail.utexas.edu > >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Thu Aug 27 07:23:44 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: 3rd-hour activities on FS Web page Content-Length: 412 The 3rd-hour activities are now on the FS Web page--the address for which is below: http://www.utexas.edu/admin/evpp/teaching/freshman/fr.sem.98/index.html FS instructors are to keep track of attendance, either by having the students write a brief report or by having someone (the coordinator if he is present, the lecturer, the tour guide, the library workshop presenter, etc.) sign as proof of attendance. >From Gurgi9@aol.com Thu Aug 27 20:27:47 1998 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Tim from Freshman Seminar Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2220 Well, I already went ahead and did some research on the archeoastronomy, sending some emails to some very impressive people, including the President of the Society of Africanist Archeologists, hoping that they could point us in some good directions. That is not the reason that I wanted to email you though. I noted that you are a theoretical astrophysicist. Exactly what degrees do you need to get there? What exactly does a job like that entail? See, I have a dilemna. I have a basic idea of what I would like to do with my life, but it really doesn't fit into any category. You really caught my eye because you are formally a theoetical astrophysicist but also seem to have some interest in history, via your Freshman Seminar, and in writing (The Krone Exp.). I have always enjoyed reading those big books on modern physics theory like superstring, etc. That stuff always seemed so removed from our everyday actions as human beings. It seems to be delving into the very heart of reality, trying to make it all somehow make sense by doing such fantastic things as explaining everything in higher dimesnions, etc. That has always fascinated me. But what fascinates me about it is what it tries to do: explain reality, why things are the way they are. This is my ultimate calling, to work on this question. Unfortunately, such a question also involves many metaphysical questions necessary to explore so that I do not leave any area blank. Sloppy research is not a good thing. Therefore I have also spent a great deal of my time studying things like philosophy and theological texts. My basic problem is that such a lifelong goal fails to fall into any predefined area. There is no college for my interest. My interest falls under at least two!!! I am lost as to what I should be studying: astronomy, physics, philosophy, history. I am looking for someone to guide me in any way. If you know someone who might better help me than please give me his/her email address. I prefer emailing because in person I wouldnt say 10% of this stuff. You understand I hope. I am really excited by this class because it is so boundless and free for self-initiative. thank you for your time, Timothy Shockey >From wheel Fri Aug 28 11:37:30 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Tim from Freshman Seminar Content-Length: 939 Timothy, To become an astrononomer, you basically need to be a physicist. You can major in phyics as an undergraduate and then switch to astronomy in grad school or you can be an undergraduate astronomy major who will, nevertheless, take mostly physics courses. I am not against metaphysics. All of us who are in the hard sciences ponder the more intriguing harder to quantify issues. There is an asymmetry here, however. If you concentrate on the "metaphysics" philosophy, theology, etc, you will never get the firm quantitative background to carry you quest to "understand" into the realm of physicists. On the other hand, as a highly trained physicist, you can read and study those other areas. You might want to talk to my colleague, John Scalo (parrot@astro.as.utexas) who has one of the most eclectic views of anyone I know. He is a superb astronomer/physicist, but also a musician and a deep thinker on many levels. Craig >From mmdoc@mail.utexas.edu Sat Aug 29 11:10:44 1998 To: Subject: FS 301 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_01BDD33E.079E7460" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 1623 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BDD33E.079E7460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I'm sorry to inform you, but due to time constrainsts I was forced to = drop your class. Plus I know that the man from CA wanted to be in the = class so now there is a spot for him. I will probably have you as a = professor later on because I'm an aerospace major, so I hope to see you = in the furture. Again I'm sorry, but I really had to drop your class. Miranda Murdock >From wheel Sat Aug 29 12:18:27 1998 To: mmdoc@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: FS 301 Content-Length: 177 Miranda, I'm sorry your schedule did not fit with the class, but I really appreciate your quick notice. I will tell the fellow from California there is a hole for him. Craig >From wheel Sat Aug 29 12:23:24 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: freshman seminar Content-Length: 224 Jamin, One of our students had to drop the freshman seminar due to course constraints, so that opens a spot for you. You should try to register ASAP and let me know if there is any problem. Welcome aboard, Craig Wheeler >From wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Sat Aug 29 12:27:56 1998 To: rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Freshman Seminars Cc: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Content-Length: 307 Dear Robert, I'm teaching the Freshman Seminar on Ancient Astronomy in Africa. At the goup meeting on Tuesday, you mentioned some web sites that discussed how to judge the truth of websites (an interesting possibility for recursion here...). Could you send me the URLs of those? Thanks, Craig Wheeler >From wheel Sat Aug 29 12:43:59 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, annebw@mail.utexas.edu, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, luke@the-innerloop.com, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: test Content-Length: 67 hi, this is a test of email addresses to see which bounce. Craig >From rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu Sat Aug 29 13:11:39 1998 X-Sender: rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Freshman Seminars Content-Length: 697 >I'm teaching the Freshman Seminar on Ancient Astronomy in Africa. >At the goup meeting on Tuesday, you mentioned some web sites that >discussed how to judge the truth of websites (an interesting >possibility for recursion here...). Could you send me the URLs >of those? craig: i didn't have as many bookmarked as i thought. but this first one has links to others. http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html also, this site may be of interest. http://www.w3.org/ best, bob jensen ------------------------- Robert Jensen Department of Journalism University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu office: (512) 471-1990 fax: (512) 471-7979 ------------------------- >From AcadianYak@aol.com Sat Aug 29 14:59:12 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: test Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 91 Wow, Professor. You scared me! I thought we were going to have a test already. -mikhail >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Tue Sep 1 08:43:38 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Astronomy in Ancient Africa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 257 Hi, I'm in your astronomy in Ancient Africa class, and I need you to change the email adress you have for me to this one. I have been having some unforseen problems with my other email adress, and I can't send mail from it. Thank you Sincerely Luke Bowman >From AcadianYak@aol.com Wed Sep 2 16:40:57 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Adler Planetarium Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 307 Professor Wheeler, do you mind if I interview you at sme point this semester about your research? I'm taking Ast 104 and we're required to interview a faculty member or research specialist. I believe you stated that your research cetered around blackholes, and I'd love to know more about them. -mikhail >From marykay@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Sep 2 08:59:59 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Adler Planetarium Content-Length: 83 home page: http://astro.uchicago.edu/adler/... look for "Under African Skies".. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 26 08:44:23 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: Freshman Seminars Web Page address Content-Length: 68 http://www.utexas.edu/admin/evpp/teaching/freshman/des.index.html >From AcadianYak@aol.com Tue Sep 8 18:29:47 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Found some stuff... Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1206 I realized something in class today. In the excert from the book you gave us, Nomoratunga was spelled NAmoratunga. I researched that and found these sites... http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/sed/ARIES/Mod1over.html this talks about a site called Namoratunga II in northeastern Kenya that the author believes was used to tell time. http://www.afronet.com/COLUMN/ARCHIVES/071897cinque.html this site is on the AFRONET -- whatever that is. It brags that black people built this structure, and they spell it differently. Also side note-- they again state that Namoratunge is in Kenya. Am I looking at the wrong one? http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/amu_chma_03.html http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/amu_chma_09.html http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/amu_chma_10.html http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/amu_chma_19.html this is a newsletter from africa about mathematics. I didn't find anything on Namoratunga, but I was kind in a hurry :) http://www.black-collegian.com/science.html this touches on the Dogon and Namoratunga. Interesting stuff. I think that if someone uses this spellig with a lot of other search engines (this was produced with Excite) that we could find a lot more. -Mikhail Zezulka >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Wed Sep 9 10:22:35 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Namoratunga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 974 I think i found the compilation book from the Oxford Conference. It is Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s Edited by Clive L.N. Ruggles Group D Publications, Loughborough, 1993 The guys name who presented was Clive Ruggles and he actually presented on the Borana Calendar maybe this is something else we should be researching. I found this on a lecture description on a british university site http://indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/~rug/ar315/info/lec7.html Here's another article by the guys who discovered Namoratunga. They are archaeologists at the University of Michigan apparently. Lynch, B.M., and Robbins, L.H.; "Namoratunga: The First Archaeoastronomical Evidence in Sub-Saharan Africa," Science, 200:766, 1978 Also we might check out: Science Frontiers #4 from July 1978 This guy may be an expert on Namoratunga? Lawrence H. Robbins Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. that's all i could find this morning -Luke Bowman >From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Wed Sep 9 15:33:45 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: internet stuff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0054_01BDDC08.155234C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 3452 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01BDDC08.155234C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think we need to be able to read French and Portuguese to get the good = stuff. :) I found some sites you might want to look at: www.malinet.ml/mali/pages/sigui.htm (it's in French, by the way) - it's about the Dogon people in Mali...it mentions their star dance I = think...but I can't read much French. www.golden.net/~bhap/html/secret.htm=20 - more for fun than for research www.afrinet.net/~hallh/afrotalk/afrodec94/1066.html - a discussion about african science. I've emailed some of the people = involved; hopefully I will get a response. I also found that two french scientists, Marcel Griaule and Germaine = Dieterlen, spent some 25 years with the Dogon. I haven't found much on = them, but Griaule has supposedly written two books about their = astronomical knowledge: The Pale Fox Conversations with Ogatameteli (or I've seen it spelled = Ogotomalli). Those would be nice to find. Jason Clendenen >From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Thu Sep 17 02:28:19 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Fresh News in Africa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 174 Dr. Wheeler, The address to the daily news in Africa page is: http://www.africanews.org/ It has links for news in the country of your choice; seems real helpful. Jamin >From wheel Thu Sep 17 11:03:19 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: africa site Content-Length: 458 Jamin reports that this site has good current event coverage. Craig > From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Thu Sep 17 02:28:19 1998 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Craig Wheeler > Subject: Fresh News in Africa > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Dr. Wheeler, > > The address to the daily news in Africa page is: > > http://www.africanews.org/ > > It has links for news in the country of your choice; seems real helpful. > > Jamin > > >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Mon Sep 14 20:11:23 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Fernbank Planetarium Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 141 I got the script from that planetarium show on africa it provides a good overview of the whole topic i'll bring it to class tommorrow -luke >From wheel Wed Sep 2 11:57:40 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, annebw@mail.utexas.edu, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Adler Planetarium Content-Length: 238 > From marykay@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Sep 2 08:59:59 1998 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu > Subject: Adler Planetarium > > home page: http://astro.uchicago.edu/adler/... look for "Under African > Skies".. > > > >From wheel Wed Sep 2 21:22:27 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Adler Planetarium Content-Length: 542 Mikhail, Sure. That is, I don't mind. Craig > From AcadianYak@aol.com Wed Sep 2 16:40:57 1998 > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Subject: Re: Adler Planetarium > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Professor Wheeler, do you mind if I interview you at sme point this semester > about your research? I'm taking Ast 104 and we're required to interview a > faculty member or research specialist. I believe you stated that your > research cetered around blackholes, and I'd love to know more about them. > > -mikhail > >From Mailer-Daemon@epub.med.iacnet.com Thu Sep 3 13:41:20 1998 Subject: Ancient Egyptian Science, vol. 2: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy.... To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 8147 ____________________________________________________________________________ Database: Expanded Academic ASAP Sent from SearchBank. Library: University of Texas at Austin ____________________________________________________________________________ Source: The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Jan-March 1998 v118 n1 p75(2). Title: Ancient Egyptian Science, vol. 2: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy._(book reviews) Author: Leo Depuydt Subjects: Books - Reviews People: Clagett, Marshall Rev Grade: B Electronic Collection: A20914004 RN: A20914004 Full Text COPYRIGHT 1998 American Oriental Society By MARSHALL CLAGETT. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 214. Philadelphia: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1995. Pp. xv + 575; many illustrations. $50. This hefty tome is volume two of a three-volume sourcebook on ancient Egyptian scientific thought. The author, who is Emeritus at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, explains in the preface to volume one that he thought of this work when involved in the publication of sourcebooks in the history of science. The preface and the table of contents (pp. vii-xiv) are followed by a general survey on calendars, clocks, and astronomy (pp. 1-129), with endnotes (pp. 131-65). In part two (pp. 167-506), eighteen documents are presented in English translation, each carefully annotated: (1) Old and Middle Kingdom feast lists; (2) the Ebers Calendar; (3) the astronomical ceiling of Senmut's tomb; (4) the ceiling of Hall K in Seti I's tomb; (5) extracts from the calendar at Medinet Habu; (6) lists of the names of the thirty lunar days; [documents (7), the lengths of day and night in Cairo Papyrus no. 86637, and (8), a similar table from Tanis, are discussed in the general survey;] (9) Papyrus Carlsberg 9; (10) Sothic dates, i.e., Egyptian dates of the heliacal rising of Sirius (Greek Sothis); (11) the decanal clock on Meshet's coffin; (12) the Book of Nut; (13) the dramatic text in Seti I's cenotaph; (14) the Ramesside star clock; (15) Amenemhet's water clock; (16) the shadow clock in Seti I's cenotaph; (17) the zodiacs in the temples at Esna and Dendera; and (18) the statue of the astronomer Harkhebi. A postscript (pp. 497506) contains a communication by James O. Mills on a petroglyph from Hierakonpolis with possible astronomical purport. Part three (pp. 507-66) encompasses an extensive bibliography (through 1990) and indexes. Part four includes over one hundred illustrations of various sources. The author gives an account of past discussions that is sensitive to the periods in which they were first formulated. Thus, he recounts the scholarship on the Ebers Calendar, which first came to light in 1862, with unmatched attention to detail. Clagett's work may be recommended as a very reliable and useful companion. My work on a monograph entitled Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt has allowed me to judge it first-hand. Two notes pertaining to documents (9) and (10) are appended here. As regards (9), the structure of the twenty-five-year cycle in Carlsberg 9 needs to be reinterpreted (Depuydt, in In Memoriam Jan Quaegebeur [in press]). This reinterpretation has a domino-effect, since the cycle has played a role in other topics of calendrics, notably the use of the Macedonian calendar in Egypt. As regards (10), the author makes an original contribution to the interpretation of a rising of Sirius noted in an inscription from Assuan dating to Ptolemy IV (pp. 331-33 and [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE III.1 OMITTED]). He interprets "730 years, 3 months, 3 days, and 3 hours," a time interval mentioned in connection with the rising, as an indirect reference to the Sothic cycle and the only such reference to the cycle in hieroglyphic sources. The cycle is the period of about 1460 years in which the rising rotates through the entire Egyptian civil year. Two intervals need to be distinguished: (I) the months and days that the rising shifts in the civil year; (II) the years that must pass for the rising to shift interval (I). The author interprets "730 years, 3 months, 3 days, and 3 hours" as a mixture of (I) and (II). "730 years," as an instance of (II), describes half a Sothic Cycle. The corresponding interval (I) is 182 1/2 days (730 + 4): it takes 730 years for the rising to shift 182 1/2 days. "3 months (90 days), 3 days, and 3 hours (1/8 day)" are instances of (I). The corresponding times (II) are 360 years (90 x 4), 12 years (3 x 4), and 1/2 year (1/8 x 4), for a total of 372 1/2 years. The total of (I) in "(II) 730 years, (I) 3 months, (I) 3 days, and (I) 3 hours" is 276 days; the total of (II), 1102 1/2 days. Traditional Egyptian chronology assumes that, around 1320 B.C.E., the rising of Sirius fell on I ??ht 1. The Assuan inscription would therefore date to about 218 B.C.E. (1320-1102 1/2), which falls in the reign of Ptolemy IV (221-205 B.C.E.), and Sirius would have risen 276 days after I ??ht 1, on Day 7 of Month 10, or II smw 7. Thus, both a mention of the Sothic cycle and a Sothic date can be inferred. This interpretation could also be an argument in favor of the consistency of the Egyptian wandering year (Depuydt, "On the Consistency of the Wandering Year as Backbone of Egyptian Chronology," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 32 [1995]: 50). The text dated to Ptolemy IV supports the view that the Egyptian year had wandered consistently. Still in connection with the Sothic rising, it may be useful to note three mentions of the rising that have come to light since the source book was completed. Two of them, referred to here as (A) and (B), found at Karnak, probably date to Amenhotep I (late sixteenth century B.C.E.) (see A. J. Spalinger, Three Studies on Egyptian Feasts and Their Chronological Implications [Baltimore: Halgo, Inc., 1992], 15, 19, with plates II and III). The third, (C), is found in an inscription recently excavated at Buto and dating to Thutmosis III (fifteenth century B.C.E.) (see S. Bedier, "Ein Stiftungsdekret Thutmosis' III. aus Buto," in Aspekte spatagyptischer Kultur: Festschrift fur Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. M. Minas and J. Zeidler [Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1994], 35-50, with plate 6). Since no year, month, and day dates are given, these mentions of the rising are not Sothic dates. They belong in a festal calendar of which each line refers to a civil or lunar feast. (A) is mentioned between I prt 3 in the preceding line and I prt 20 in the next, (B) between IV prt and I smw, and (C) between I smw 4 and I smw 30. At face value, (A) and (B) contradict the contemporary Sothic date of III smw 9 in Year 9 of Amenhotep I in the Ebers Calendar, on which traditional New Kingdom chronology is based; (A) and (B) even contradict one another. Moreover, (C) contradicts the Sothic date of III smw 28 of an unknown year of Thutmosis III (cf. Depuydt, "Consistency," 50). All this is potentially upsetting to Egyptian chronology. But then, the feast of the rising does not fall on a fixed date and had to be mentioned somewhere. (A), (B), and (C) are entries in festal calendars, not reports of sightings of the rising. In each instance, the rising is said to fall r hrw.s or r sw.s "on its day." The rising may have been inserted somewhat randomly in the list and mentioned ahead of time so that one could look out for it. Spalinger (Three Studies) considers the possibility that (A) and (B) were copied from inscriptions dated to a time when the rising did fall in the intervals inferred. LEO DEPUYDT BROWN UNIVERSITY -- End -- >From Mailer-Daemon@epub.med.iacnet.com Thu Sep 3 13:41:21 1998 Subject: Ancient astronomers.(the Nabta site of stone circles in Egypt seems... To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1986 ____________________________________________________________________________ Database: Expanded Academic ASAP Sent from SearchBank. Library: University of Texas at Austin ____________________________________________________________________________ Full content for this article includes photograph and illustration. Source: U.S. News & World Report, April 13, 1998 v124 n14 p14(1). Title: Ancient astronomers.(the Nabta site of stone circles in Egypt seems related to astronomy and predates Stonehenge by a thousand years)(Brief Article) Author: Laura Tangley Subjects: Astronomy, Ancient - Egypt Magazine Collection: 93M0361 Business Collection: 108T1618 Electronic Collection: A20474129 RN: A20474129 Full Text COPYRIGHT 1998 U.S. News and World Report Inc. A thousand years before England's Stonehenge, cattle herders in Egypt built a complex of stone slabs that researchers say may be the first monument based on knowledge of astronomy. Known as Nabta, the site includes a stone circle and five lines of standing and toppled megaliths. Satellite surveys--reported last week in Nature--show that some of these stones are aligned north-south, east-west, or pointing to the summer-solstice sun as it appeared 6,000 years ago. When climate change eventually forced Nabta's builders to move on, they likely headed south, fueling the birth of an advanced Egyptian society a few hundred years later. -- End -- >From Mailer-Daemon@epub.med.iacnet.com Thu Sep 3 13:41:20 1998 Subject: A Stonehenge of sorts lies in the Sahara. (J. McKim Malville and ot... To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1202 ____________________________________________________________________________ Database: Expanded Academic ASAP Sent from SearchBank. Library: University of Texas at Austin ____________________________________________________________________________ Source: The New York Times, April 2, 1998 v147 pA5(N) pA5(L) col 1 (13 col in). Title: A Stonehenge of sorts lies in the Sahara. (J. McKim Malville and others discover complex of slabs and stones in southern Egypt which could be astronomical monument) (International Pages) Subjects: Egypt - Historic sites Sahara - Historic sites Monuments - Discovery, exploration, etc. Astronomy, Ancient - Usage RN: A20452784 -- End -- >From wheel Sat Sep 5 11:13:00 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, annebw@mail.utexas.edu, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Seminar Web page Content-Length: 254 > From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 26 08:44:23 1998 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu > Subject: Freshman Seminars Web Page address > > http://www.utexas.edu/admin/evpp/teaching/freshman/des.index.html > > > >From wheel Tue Sep 8 18:05:58 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, annebw@mail.utexas.edu, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: class Content-Length: 131 Just a reminder that we will meet in the regular class room on Thursday. The next WEB session will be a week from Thursday. Craig >From wheel Wed Sep 9 11:30:36 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: starting to cook, Content-Length: 1282 the correct spelling REALLY helps! > From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Wed Sep 9 10:22:35 1998 > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Craig Wheeler > Subject: Namoratunga > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I think i found the compilation book from the Oxford Conference. It is > > Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s > Edited by Clive L.N. Ruggles > Group D Publications, Loughborough, 1993 > > The guys name who presented was Clive Ruggles and he actually presented on the > Borana Calendar maybe this is something else we should be researching. > > I found this on a lecture description on a british university site > http://indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/~rug/ar315/info/lec7.html > > Here's another article by the guys who discovered Namoratunga. They are > archaeologists at the University of Michigan apparently. > Lynch, B.M., and Robbins, L.H.; "Namoratunga: The First Archaeoastronomical Evidence > in Sub-Saharan Africa," > Science, 200:766, 1978 > > Also we might check out: Science Frontiers #4 from July 1978 > > This guy may be an expert on Namoratunga? > Lawrence H. Robbins > Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, > U.S.A. > that's all i could find this morning > > -Luke Bowman > > > > > >From fowler@mail.utexas.edu Wed Sep 16 15:05:20 1998 X-Sender: fowler@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Freshman Seminar library workshop tomorrow Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 789 Craig, We are scheduled to meet tomorrow in FAC 227 from 12:30 - 2pm for your Freshman Seminar Library Workshop. I was planning on showing your students the INSPEC database which cites a number of good articles about astroarchaeology - some even in Africa! I will also show some tips and techniques for using a search engine to find Web pages about the topic. I will check out some of our anthropology related databases today to see if they have enough information to make them worth showing to your class. Is there anything else you would like me to cover tomorrow? Are there any other topics that have come up in class in the last few weeks that might be good to search tomorrow? Thanks and I'll see you tomorrow, Clara Clara Fowler fowler@mail.utexas.edu 495-4447 FAC 227 >From wheel Tue Sep 22 13:54:39 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: star charts Content-Length: 165 That was a lower case "l" in lkmao. Here is a somewhat more general address for the star charts http://www.unf.edu/~lkmao/astronomy/skies/star-charts.html Craig >From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Tue Sep 22 14:10:02 1998 To: "J. C. Wheeler" Subject: Absence MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_01BDE633.21FD2240" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 3608 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BDE633.21FD2240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Professor Wheeler, I'm sorry that I was unable to make it to class today. I'm = feeling rather ill and tired today after vomitting half the night = yesterday. I took the day recovering from dehydration and what I think = was food poisoning. But anyways, the point of this email was to ask you = if you could possibly inform me about what I missed during today's = class. This way, I can come prepared on Thursday to class without = actually being behind the rest of my classmates. Thank you. = Sincerely, = John Mao >From wheel Tue Sep 22 14:56:39 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Absence Content-Length: 803 John, sorry you are not feeling well. I had something like that in the first week of class and it is not fun! I took suggestions and assigned countries to write about for the mid-term term paper. We are going to have an outline due on Tuesday, Oct 6 and a rough draft for peer comment on Oct 13. I will be out of town next week, so you are on your own to work on the term paper and do third hour activities. Today we talked about Clive Ruggles' discussion of the Borana Calendar and how to reconcile various accounts. On Thursday, we'll discuss the original Lynch and Robbins paper. What country would you like to write about. These were taken: Mali, Chad, Tanzania, Liberia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Republic of Congo and Kenya. Lots of good choices left! Craig >From wheel Tue Sep 22 14:59:50 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: term paper Content-Length: 236 Mikhail, we picked countries to write about today in class. These got chosen: Mali, Chad, Tanzania, Liberia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Republic of Congo and Kenya. Plenty left, what would you like? Craig >From AcadianYak@aol.com Tue Sep 22 15:33:56 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: term paper Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 112 Sorry about class today Professor. I guess I'll take Madagascar. Islands are always interesting. :) -mikhail >From wheel Mon Sep 21 21:22:11 1998 To: wheel Subject: maps Content-Length: 68 http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/africa.html >From Gurgi9@aol.com Fri Sep 25 01:48:19 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: reminder Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 177 Hello Prof. Wheeler, this is Timothy. I am very sorry that i missed class thursday. did i miss anything new? have fun in Italy! keep your eyes open for Lamborghinis!! -Tim >From wheel Fri Sep 25 23:03:04 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: special 3rd hour Content-Length: 928 On Monday, Sept 28 at 3 PM in RLM 15.216B there will be a special lecture by Dr. Michael Coe entitled "A Touch of Venus - Maya Style." Coe has recently retired as Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale. He is the author of many books on the Maya and Mesoamerica. My colleague, Bob Robbins who is hosting this event told me today that he thinks some people in the anthropology department at Rice have done recent work on African astronomy or megaliths or some related thing. You might try to explore that lead to talk about when I return. For your Moon journals, keep a close eye on the lovely crescent Moon for the next little while. It is one thing to know intellectually that the moon is sphere illuminated partially on one side by the Sun. It is rather another thing to "see" that. Try to look at the Moon until you can see what is really going on. Arrivederci, Craig >From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Oct 5 00:12:48 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: freshman seminar Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 213 I was wondering what the URL of the class web page is? also, when are the outlines due of our Africa papers? thanks for your time, -Tim P.S. Did you see any Lamborghinis? It really is a serious question. bye >From m902856@hotmail.com Mon Oct 5 11:33:35 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.145] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Africa Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 24621 >>Return-Path: >>Delivered-To: maryrose@mail.utexas.edu >>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:36:37 +0200 >>From: David Laney >>To: maryrose@mail.utexas.edu >>Subject: Africa >> >> >>Some of the most useful articles are by Keith Snedegar (Utah Valley >>State College), who summarizes what can be found scattered through >>older literature. His e-mail address is snedegke@uvsc.edu. A short >>article appeared in ``Mercury'' (Nov-Dec 1997 issue, p.12). There >>is a longer, more detailed article in ``Vistas in Astronomy'', Vol. 39, >>p.529 (1995). There is another long article summarizing the earlier >>literature which was written by Brian Warner, but I haven't yet been >>able to trace the reference. Both this and Snedegar's contain lists >>of references, but whether you will be able to locate these in Austin >>I'm not too sure. Just for fun I'm including two versions of a short >>summary of star lore traditions that I collected from the resources >>in our library. >> >> >>Legends of the Khoikhoi and the San: >> >>A girl child of the old people had magical powers so strong that when >>she looked at a group of fierce lions, they were immediately turned to >>stars. The largest are now in Orion's belt. >> >> >>A strong-willed girl became so angry when her mother would not give her >>any of a delicious roasted root that she grabbed the roasting roots from >>the fire and threw the roots and ashes into the sky, where the red >>and white roots >>now glow as red and white stars, and the ashes are the Milky Way. >> >>Dornan, 1925 >>(The Bushmen) >> >>And there the road is to this day. Some people call it the Milky Way; >>some call it the Stars' Road, but no matter what you call it, it is the >>path made by a young girl many, many years ago, who threw the bright >>sparks of her fire high up into the sky to make a road in the darkness. >> >>Leslau, Charlotte and Wolf. African Folk Tales (1963) >> >>When the Pleiades appear in the east, little ones are lifted by their >>mothers and presented to the stars . . . The Pleiades are considered >>friendly and the children are taught to stretch their hands toward them. >> >>The Pleiades, named Khuseti or Khunuseh by the Khoikhoi, are called the >>rainstars. Their appearance indicates the rainy season is near and thus >>the beginning of a new year. (Hahn, 1881, The Khoikhoi, or Bushmen) >> >>. . . when rain is accompanied by lightning, girls who are out in the open >>become killed by the lightning and are converted into stars. Therefore >>young unmarried women and girls must hide themselves from the rain. >>(Schapera 1930) >> >>According to the Namaquas, the Pleiades were the daughters of the sky >>god. When their husband (Aldeberan) shot his arrow (Orion's sword) at three >>zebras (Orion's belt), it fell short. He dared not return home because >>he had killed no game, and he dared not retrieve his arrow because >>of the fierce lion (Betelgueuse) which sat watching the zebras. There >>he sits still, shivering in the cold night and suffering thirst and >>hunger. >> >>Initiated men among the Namaqua could not partake of hare's flesh. >>Long ago the moon sent a message to men that as it died and was renewed, >>so should men be. The hare told men instead they would die >>and perish like the hare, but said nothing of renewal. >>(Tooke 1888, The Hottentots) >> >>The Sun was once a man who made it day when he raised his arms, for >>a powerful light shone from his armpits. But as he grew old and slept >>too long, the people grew cold. Children crept up on him, and >>threw him into the sky, where he became round and has stayed warm >>and bright ever since. >> >>The Sotho calendar: >> >>Canopus was called Naka(the horn), or E a dishwa >>(it is carefully watched). Sotho >>men would camp in the mountains, where they made fires >>and watched the early morning skies in the South. It was believed that >>the first person to see the star would be very prosperous that year, >>with a rich harvest and good luck to the end of his life. In olden times >>the chief would give the lucky man with a heifer. The day after Naka >>was sighted was the time for the men with divining bones to examine >>their bones in still water, to predict the tribe's luck for the coming >>year. Among the Venda, the first person to see Nanga (Canopus) in the >>morning sky announced his discovery by climbing a hill and blowing >>a sable antelope horn (phalaphala). Among the Mapeli, the first person >>to see the star would begin ululating loudly enough to be heard in >>the next village, which would then join the noisemaking to warn other >>villages, each in turn until all knew Canopus had been seen. >> >>When selomela (the Pleiades) rose in the east, frost was at hand and >>the leaves fell from the trees in the river beds. >> >> >>If the senakane (the little horn) (Achernar) rises in the East very bright >>and giving off little lightnings, and the bullrushes are still in flower, >>men fear an early frost. If Canopus is seen in May with a very intense >>light, the frost would be very hard. >> >>The shield of the little horn is the Small Magellanic Cloud, known as >>mo'hora le tlala, `plenty and famine'. If dry dusty air made it appear >>dim, famine was to be expected. >> >>The bright stars of the pointers and the southern cross were often seen >>as giraffes, though different tribes had different ideas about which were >>male and which were female. Among the Venda the giraffes were known as >>Thutlwa, `rising above the trees', and in October the giraffes would >>indeed skim above the trees on the evening horizon, reminding people to >>finish planting. >> >>Tswana: >> >>The sky is stone, and the earth is flat. Water is beneath the earth and >>above the sky. >> >>Some believed that after sunset the sun traveled back to the east over the >>top of the sky, and that the stars are small holes which let the light >>through. Others said that the sun is eaten each night by a crocodile, and >>that it emerges from the crocodile each morning. >> >>The waning moon spills diseases. >> >>Its markings are a woman carrying a child, who was caught gathering wood >>when she should have been at a sacred festival. >> >>For the Tswana, the stars of Orion's sword were `dintsa le Dikolobe', three >>dogs chasing the three pigs of Orion's belt. Warthogs have their litters >>while Orion is prominent in the sky --- frequently litters of three. >> >>Ntshune was a star (possibly Fomalhaut) visible on winter mornings. >>This `kiss me' star showed the time for lovers to part before parents >>found them. >> >>The small constellation of Delphinus may have been seen by the Tswana as >>a mopane worm. >> >> >>Sotho,Swazi,Nguni >> >>The sun's `summer house' and `winter house' (the solstices) were >>important to the traditional calendar as in many other parts of the world. >>To the Xhosa these were `injikolanga', `the turning back of the sun'. >>As late as 1921, governors of royal >>Swazi villages trusted traditional observations more than printed calendars. >> >>Venus: iCelankobe (Zulu) = `asking for mealies'. As with the Sotho >>Se-falabogogo (`crust scrapings'), the idea is that someone who arrives >>for supper by the light of the evening star will do rather badly. The >>Tswana believed that if Venus were in the evening sky at hoeing season, >>there would be a good harvest. >> >>According to Credo Mutwa, the Southern Cross is the Tree of Life, `our >>holiest constellation'. >> >>IsiLimela or the Pleiades were the `digging stars', whose appearance >>in southern Africa warned of the coming need to begin hoeing the ground. >>All over Africa, these stars were used as a marker of the growing season. >>`And we say isiLimela is renewed, and the year is renewed, and so we begin >>to dig'. (Callaway 1970). Xhosa men counted their years of manhood from the >>time in June when isiLimela first became visible. >> >>To Xhosas, the Milky Way seemed like the raised bristles on the back >>of an angry dog. Sotho and Tswana saw it as Molalatladi, the place where >>lightning rests. It also kept the sky from collapsing, and showed the >>movement of time. Some said it turned the Sun to the east. >> >>For Swazi and Zulu skywatchers, iNqonqoli or Ingongoni was a star >>associated with wildebeest, whose calves were born in the season when >>Spica rose before the sun and the morning star. >> >>Canopus was known to some tribes as the `ants' egg star' because of its >>prominence during the season when the eggs were abundant. >> >>Assorted: >>Among the Baronga each moon is regarded as a new birth after the death >>of the old one. At the appearance of the new moon, recently born children >>(third month) are `shown their moon'. The mother flings a burning stick >>toward the moon as the grandmother tosses the child in the air, crying >>`This is your moon'.The baby is then made to roll over in the ashes. >>Children lacking this rite would grow up stupid, and dull children are >>told, `You have not been shown your moon'. >> >>More Moon Legends >> >>See Hare and the Moon above under Khoisan stories, and the moon and >>stupidity in the above paragraph. >> >>Nwedzana=waxing crescent >>If the horns point up when the new crescent is sighted in the evening >>sky, it `was said to be holding up all kinds of disease, and when the >>horns were tipped down, the moon was a basin pouring illness over the >>world.' (Sotho,Tswana,Venda) >> >>`No doubt Shaka's harem guards were called the Qwayi-Nyanga, or moon- >>gazers, because they were to watch over the royal women as intently as the >>Zulu people watched the moon.' Ng'olumhlope namhla (Zulu) was the black >>or dark day after the waning crescent's disappearance from the sky. Many >>considered this a solemn day of rest, when no work or business should >>take place, and no weddings should be celebrated. >> >>`In Malawi the morning star is Chechichani, a poor housekeeper who allows >>her husband the moon to go hungry and starve; Puikani, the evening star, >>is a fine wife who feeds the moon thus bringing him back to life.' >> >>On March 30, 1885 an Ndebele impi which had just set out on campaign saw the >>moon turn red in a total eclipse, decided the army had been bewitched, >>and returned to Bulawayo. >> >>Many Africans saw the markings on the moon as a man or woman carrying a >>bundle of sticks. >> >>For the Khoikhoi the Moon was the `Lord of Light and Life'. >> >>Among the Xhosa it was believed that `the world ended with the sea, which >>concealed a vast pit filled with new moons ready for use', i.e. that each >>new lunation begins with a truly new moon. >> >>In Bushman legend the moon is a man who has angered the sun. Every month >>the moon reaches round prosperity, but the sun's knife then cuts away >>pieces until finally only a tiny piece is left, which the moon pleads >>should be left for his children. It is from this piece that the moon >>gradually grows again to become full. >> >>Texts used on our Legends of the African Sky poster >> >>When a mother refused to let her daughter have any of the roots roasting in >>the fire, the girl became so angry that she threw the roots into the sky, >>where the red and white roots now glow as red and white stars, and the >>ashes are the Milky Way. >> >>Unluckiest hunter in the sky is the man (Aldeberan) who married the sky god's >>daughters (the Pleiades). When he tried to shoot one of three zebras >>(Orion's belt) with his only arrow (Orion's sword), he missed. He doesn't >>dare go home without any game, and he doesn't dare get his arrow back for >>fear of the lion (Betelgeuse) lurking near the zebras. There he sits still, >>shivering, cold and hungry while his wives laugh at him around the fire. >> >>Some among the Tswana said that the sun is swallowed each night by a >>crocodile, and the sun emerges from the crocodile every morning. >> >> >>Among the Venda, the first person to see Nanga (Canopus) in the early >>morning sky would climb a hill and blow a phalaphala (sable antelope) >>horn. Among the Sotho, it was believed that the first person to see Naka >>(the horn star) would have good luck for the rest of his life. >> >>Several of the peoples of northern South Africa saw the bright stars of the >>pointers and the Southern Cross as giraffes. Among the Venda the giraffes >>were known as Thlutlwa, `rising above the trees', and in October the >>giraffes would skim over the trees on the southern horizon, reminding >>people to finish planting. >> >>IsiLimela `dies and is not seen. It is not seen in winter, and at last, >>when the winter is coming to an end, it begins to appear --- one of its >>stars is first, and then three, until going on increasing, it becomes a >>cluster of stars, and is perfectly clear when the sun is about to rise. >>And we say IsiLimela is renewed, and the year is renewed, and so we begin to >>dig.' >> >>Assorted Brief Tales: >> >>Legends of the Khoikhoi and the San: >> >>A girl child of the old people had magical powers so strong that when >>she looked at a group of fierce lions, they were immediately turned to >>stars. The largest are now in Orion's belt. >> >> >>A strong-willed girl became so angry when her mother would not give her >>any of a delicious roasted root that she grabbed the roasting roots from >>the fire and threw the roots and ashes into the sky, where the red >>and white roots >>now glow as red and white stars, and the ashes are the Milky Way. >> >>Dornan, 1925 >>(The Bushmen) >> >>And there the road is to this day. Some people call it the Milky Way; >>some call it the Stars' Road, but no matter what you call it, it is the >>path made by a young girl many, many years ago, who threw the bright >>sparks of her fire high up into the sky to make a road in the darkness. >> >>Leslau, Charlotte and Wolf. African Folk Tales (1963) >> >>When the Pleiades appear in the east, little ones are lifted by their >>mothers and presented to the stars . . . The Pleiades are considered >>friendly and the children are taught to stretch their hands toward them. >> >>The Pleiades, named Khuseti or Khunuseh by the Khoikhoi, are called the >>rainstars. Their appearance indicates the rainy season is near and thus >>the beginning of a new year. (Hahn, 1881, The Khoikhoi, or Bushmen) >> >>. . . when rain is accompanied by lightning, girls who are out in the open >>become killed by the lightning and are converted into stars. Therefore >>young unmarried women and girls must hide themselves from the rain. >>(Schapera 1930) >> >>According to the Namaquas, the Pleiades were the daughters of the sky >>god. When their husband (Aldeberan) shot his arrow (Orion's sword) at three >>zebras (Orion's belt), it fell short. He dared not return home because >>he had killed no game, and he dared not retrieve his arrow because >>of the fierce lion (Betelgueuse) which sat watching the zebras. There >>he sits still, shivering in the cold night and suffering thirst and >>hunger. >> >>Initiated men among the Namaqua could not partake of hare's flesh. >>Long ago the moon sent a message to men that as it died and was renewed, >>so should men be. The hare told men instead they would die >>and perish like the hare, but said nothing of renewal. >>(Tooke 1888, The Hottentots) >> >>The Sun was once a man who made it day when he raised his arms, for >>a powerful light shone from his armpits. But as he grew old and slept >>too long, the people grew cold. Children crept up on him, and >>threw him into the sky, where he became round and has stayed warm >>and bright ever since. >> >>According to a Naron bushman, the Sun turned into a rhinoceros at sunset, >>which was killed and eaten the people in the west, who then throw the >>shoulder blade towards the east, where it turns into an animal again >>and starts to rise. >> >>The Sotho calendar: >> >>Canopus was called Naka(the horn), or E a dishwa >>(it is carefully watched). Sotho >>men would camp in the mountains, where they made fires >>and watched the early morning skies in the South. It was believed that >>the first person to see the star would be very prosperous that year, >>with a rich harvest and good luck to the end of his life. In olden times >>the chief would give the lucky man with a heifer. The day after Naka >>was sighted was the time for the men with divining bones to examine >>their bones in still water, to predict the tribe's luck for the coming >>year. Among the Venda, the first person to see Nanga (Canopus) in the >>morning sky announced his discovery by climbing a hill and blowing >>a sable antelope horn (phalaphala). Among the Mapeli, the first person >>to see the star would begin ululating loudly enough to be heard in >>the next village, which would then join the noisemaking to warn other >>villages, each in turn until all knew Canopus had been seen. >> >>When selomela (the Pleiades) rose in the east, frost was at hand and >>the leaves fell from the trees in the river beds. >> >> >>If the senakane (the little horn) (Achernar) rises in the East very bright >>and giving off little lightnings, and the bullrushes are still in flower, >>men fear an early frost. If Canopus is seen in May with a very intense >>light, the frost would be very hard. >> >>The shield of the little horn is the Small Magellanic Cloud, known as >>mo'hora le tlala, `plenty and famine'. If dry dusty air made it appear >>dim, famine was to be expected. >> >>The bright stars of the pointers and the southern cross were often seen >>as giraffes, though different tribes had different ideas about which were >>male and which were female. Among the Venda the giraffes were known as >>Thutlwa, `rising above the trees', and in October the giraffes would >>indeed skim above the trees on the evening horizon, reminding people to >>finish planting. >> >>Tswana: >> >>The sky is stone, and the earth is flat. Water is beneath the earth and >>above the sky. >> >>Some believed that after sunset the sun traveled back to the east over the >>top of the sky, and that the stars are small holes which let the light >>through. Others said that the sun is eaten each night by a crocodile, and >>that it emerges from the crocodile each morning. >> >>The waning moon spills diseases. >> >>Its markings are a woman carrying a child, who was caught gathering wood >>when she should have been at a sacred festival. >> >>For the Tswana, the stars of Orion's sword were `dintsa le Dikolobe', three >>dogs chasing the three pigs of Orion's belt. Warthogs have their litters >>while Orion is prominent in the sky --- frequently litters of three. >> >>Ntshune was a star (possibly Fomalhaut) visible on winter mornings. >>This `kiss me' star showed the time for lovers to part before parents >>found them. >> >>The small constellation of Delphinus may have been seen by the Tswana as >>a mopane worm. >> >> >>Sotho,Swazi,Nguni >> >>The sun's `summer house' and `winter house' (the solstices) were >>important to the traditional calendar as in many other parts of the world. >>To the Xhosa these were `injikolanga', `the turning back of the sun'. >>As late as 1921, governors of royal >>Swazi villages trusted traditional observations more than printed calendars. >>One Zulu tradition held that the Sun died at sunset each day, and >>was eaten by a race of pygmies called iZichwe (Krige, 1969). >> >>Venus: iCelankobe (Zulu) = `asking for mealies'. As with the Sotho >>Se-falabogogo (`crust scrapings'), the idea is that someone who arrives >>for supper by the light of the evening star will do rather badly. The >>Tswana believed that if Venus were in the evening sky at hoeing season, >>there would be a good harvest. >> >>According to Credo Mutwa, the Southern Cross is the Tree of Life, `our >>holiest constellation'. >> >>IsiLimela or the Pleiades were the `digging stars', whose appearance >>in southern Africa warned of the coming need to begin hoeing the ground. >>All over Africa, these stars were used as a marker of the growing season. >>`And we say isiLimela is renewed, and the year is renewed, and so we begin >>to dig'. (Callaway 1970). Xhosa men counted their years of manhood from the >>time in June when isiLimela first became visible. >> >>To Xhosas, the Milky Way seemed like the raised bristles on the back >>of an angry dog. Sotho and Tswana saw it as Molalatladi, the place where >>lightning rests. It also kept the sky from collapsing, and showed the >>movement of time. Some said it turned the Sun to the east. A Xhosa >>tradition held that the sea concealed a vast pit of new moons ready >>for use. >> >>For Swazi and Zulu skywatchers, iNqonqoli or Ingongoni was a star >>associated with wildebeest, whose calves were born in the season when >>Spica rose before the sun and the morning star. >> >>Canopus was known to some tribes as the `ants' egg star' because of its >>prominence during the season when the eggs were abundant. >> >>Assorted: >>Among the Baronga each moon is regarded as a new birth after the death >>of the old one. At the appearance of the new moon, recently born children >>(third month) are `shown their moon'. The mother flings a burning stick >>toward the moon as the grandmother tosses the child in the air, crying >>`This is your moon'.The baby is then made to roll over in the ashes. >>Children lacking this rite would grow up stupid, and dull children are >>told, `You have not been shown your moon'. >> >>More Moon Legends >> >>See Hare and the Moon above under Khoisan stories, and the moon and >>stupidity in the above paragraph. >> >>Nwedzana=waxing crescent >>If the horns point up when the new crescent is sighted in the evening >>sky, it `was said to be holding up all kinds of disease, and when the >>horns were tipped down, the moon was a basin pouring illness over the >>world.' (Sotho,Tswana,Venda) >> >>`No doubt Shaka's harem guards were called the Qwayi-Nyanga, or moon- >>gazers, because they were to watch over the royal women as intently as the >>Zulu people watched the moon.' Ng'olumhlope namhla (Zulu) was the black >>or dark day after the waning crescent's disappearance from the sky. Many >>considered this a solemn day of rest, when no work or business should >>take place, and no weddings should be celebrated. >> >>`In Malawi the morning star is Chechichani, a poor housekeeper who allows >>her husband the moon to go hungry and starve; Puikani, the evening star, >>is a fine wife who feeds the moon thus bringing him back to life.' >> >>On March 30, 1885 an Ndebele impi which had just set out on campaign saw the >>moon turn red in a total eclipse, decided the army had been bewitched, >>and returned to Bulawayo. >> >>Many Africans saw the markings on the moon as a man or woman carrying a >>bundle of sticks. >> >>For the Khoikhoi the Moon was the `Lord of Light and Life'. >> >>Among the Xhosa it was believed that `the world ended with the sea, which >>concealed a vast pit filled with new moons ready for use', i.e. that each >>new lunation begins with a truly new moon. >> >>In Bushman legend the moon is a man who has angered the sun. Every month >>the moon reaches round prosperity, but the sun's knife then cuts away >>pieces until finally only a tiny piece is left, which the moon pleads >>should be left for his children. It is from this piece that the moon >>gradually grows again to become full. >> >>Stars: >> >>A legend of the Karanga people held that the stars were the eyes of the >>dead, while many Tswana held that they were the spirits of those unwilling >>to be born. Other Tswana believed that they were souls of those so long >>dead that they were no longer ancestor spirits. The Venda pictured the >>stars as hanging from the solid dome of the sky by cords, while other >>groups believed the stars to be holes in the solid rock dome of the sky. >> >>Counting the stars was proverbially a futile, painful effort. Venda >>children were told they would wet their beds if they tried it. >> >>Meteors: >> >>According to one Zulu woman, meteors are caused when celestial cattle >>drag their hooves, creating streaks in the floor of the sky which >>almost immediately fill in with mud. The Venda believed that one >>of the invisible cords holding up the stars had broken when a meteor >>was seen. >> >> >>Hope this is of some use. >> >>Sincerely, >> >>David Laney >>SAAO >> > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From wheel Mon Oct 5 14:40:03 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: outlines Content-Length: 133 Bon Giorno! Remember the outlines of your first papers on modern african countries are due tomorrow. See you then, Ciao, Craig >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Mon Oct 5 14:42:34 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: final exams Content-Length: 345 Dear FS instructor: Please let me know if you do not intend to give a final exam for your Freshman Seminar. If you intend to do so, you need not notify me. Scheduling will code all FS classes for final exams but will remove all classes that do not intend to have exams. Thanks. I will supply you with reports on 3rd-hour attendance tomorrow. >From wheel Mon Oct 5 16:58:39 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: final exams Content-Length: 587 I will not give a final exam in my freshman seminar. Craig Wheeler > From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Mon Oct 5 14:42:34 1998 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu > Subject: final exams > > Dear FS instructor: Please let me know if you do not intend to give a final > exam for your Freshman Seminar. If you intend to do so, you need not notify > me. Scheduling will code all FS classes for final exams but will remove all > classes that do not intend to have exams. Thanks. > > I will supply you with reports on 3rd-hour attendance tomorrow. > > > >From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Thu Oct 8 21:05:05 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Thursday's Class Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 399 Dr. Wheeler, I just found out that the message I tried to send to you about class today did not get through (I wrote: wheel@all.as... oops). Anyway, the message basically said that I was going to lunch with the engineering deptartmental visiting committee and that it was very important for me to go. I'll contact some people from class to find out what I missed. See you on Tuesday, Jamin >From wheel Thu Oct 8 22:17:26 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Thursday's Class Content-Length: 252 Jamin, Thanks for the note. We worked some more on questions to send the "experts." I'll circulate drafts of them for more thought and discussion. No class Tuesday, I'll be away. Drafts of modern africa papers due Thursday for peer review. Craig >From AcadianYak@aol.com Mon Oct 12 18:27:05 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Hello Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 272 I just wanted to say that I enjoyed your class this year. I had to withdraw from the university to take care of my parents, and I had to do so with great haste. I'm sorry I wasn't able to complete the course, but I hope you it all pays off in the end. -Mikhail Zezulka See you and your drafts thursday. The Boulder meeting (I'm emailing from the Holiday Inn) has been very interesting... Craig >From wheel Mon Oct 12 22:00:51 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Hello Content-Length: 114 Mikhail, I'm sorry to hear that. You touched us all with your essay about your mother. I wish you well. Craig >From m902856@hotmail.com Thu Oct 15 17:15:10 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.97] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: missed class Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 568 Professor Wheeler, I'm sorry about missing class today. I was at the UGL studying all night until nine thirty this morning. I didn't get any sleep at all, nor did I go home. I finished my PSY test early, but I ended up falling asleep so I missed class. If at all possible, could you please update me on what went on in class today. Thank you so much. Again, I am so sorry that I missed class. Sincerely, Mary Tran FS Ancient Astronomy in Africa ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From m902856@hotmail.com Thu Oct 15 17:15:10 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.97] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: missed class Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 568 Professor Wheeler, I'm sorry about missing class today. I was at the UGL studying all night until nine thirty this morning. I didn't get any sleep at all, nor did I go home. I finished my PSY test early, but I ended up falling asleep so I missed class. If at all possible, could you please update me on what went on in class today. Thank you so much. Again, I am so sorry that I missed class. Sincerely, Mary Tran FS Ancient Astronomy in Africa ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From wheel Thu Oct 15 21:14:31 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: missed class Content-Length: 651 Mary, Not to worry. You are going so well in the class, you can afford a breather. I joked today that you were near to filling all your third hour so you can start selling credits ;) All we did today was to pass around drafts for peer comments. I then collected the drafts and will try to look them over and make comments before next Tuesday. I'll hand them back and will want the final version on Thursday. If you would like me to look over your draft, drop it by my office. I will put the ones I look at outside my office as I finish them and email people so they can come and pick them up. See you next week, Thanks for the note, Craig >From wheel Sun Oct 18 21:26:53 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: drafts Content-Length: 625 I did not get into the University this weekend (my rowboat leaked ;} ), but have looked at the drafts I collected on Thursday. I'll put them outside my office if you want to pick them up now. Don't forget to include a bibliography. The only general criticism I have is that many of these are very close to paraphrasing an encyclopedia. There is nothing wrong with utilizing an encyclopedia, but these are INTERESTING countries and many of these papers are edging toward making them seem dry and lifeless. If only for the sake of my reading pleasure, I hope you can put a little zest in them. See you Tuesday. Craig >From wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Oct 20 14:27:42 1998 To: africa@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: drafts Cc: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Content-Length: 140 I've put the drafts of Nic Griffin, Jim West, and Mike Hyman on a chair outside my office, RLM 17.230. Final versions due Thursday. Craig >From wheel Wed Oct 21 12:57:24 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Questions Content-Length: 132 John, I also wanted the draft of the letter you were going send incorporating those questions. Can you send that? Thanks, Craig >From wheel Wed Oct 21 13:09:19 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Email Rough Draft Content-Length: 73 John, Sorry, I got behind in my mail, I have your draft letter. Craig >From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Wed Oct 21 13:20:58 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: African third hour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 1569 It's a thursday...will our class meet there that day? :) Jason -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: AcadianYak@aol.com ; clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; fender@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; ncrow@mail.utexas.edu ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; rebmak@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu >From wheel Wed Oct 21 13:35:34 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: third hour Content-Length: 176 hmmm, Jason points out that the Christianity in Africa talk overlaps with our class. Our class probably will meet, but we can think about this as the time approaches. Craig >From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Thu Oct 22 13:28:45 1998 To: "J. C. Wheeler" Subject: Final Email Draft MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000A_01BDFDC0.1E2C2680" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 8342 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01BDFDC0.1E2C2680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable PROFESSOR WHEELER, I USED A SPECIAL BULLET FEATURE IN MY EMAIL PROGRAM. = PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF IT TURNS OUT OK. THANKS! Dear Professor Malville and Professor Wendorf, =20 I represent a group of students at the University of Texas in Austin = currently studying ancient African astronomy, especially the megaliths = and their astronomical significance. After studying your recent = magazine article published in Nature (April 1998), entitled "Megaliths = and Neolithic Astronomy in Southern Egypt", we became intrigued by your = investigations of Nabta. =20 We hope that you can answer a few questions we have raised = concerning Nabta. a.. Do you know of any correlation between Nabta and Namoratunga? b.. What are your findings concerning possible astronomical = alignments for the megaliths? Do these findings correlate with = Namoratunga's alignments? If so, what would you suggest as the basis of = this correlation? Are migrating tribes (Nabtians moving to Namoratunga) = a possibility? =20 c.. Has build-up of sediment or erosion occurred after the site was = abandoned? d.. Where did the Nabtians come from? What were they like? Where = did they go? =20 e.. Do you have a better idea or more proof about the age and = purpose of Nabta? =20 f.. Is there any significance to the arrangement of the stones at = Nabta being circular and the ones at Namoratunga II being linear? g.. Is there any possible relationship between Nabta and other = megalithic sites, such as Stonehenge? =20 h.. Are there any other megalithic astronomical sites in Africa? = Would you guess that there are more? Do you have any idea of where or = how many? i.. Have there been any new discoveries since your last article? =20 j.. In that last article, the possibility of a second publication = later this year was mentioned. If this article is still scheduled for = print, when will it be due for publication? We have the intention of creating a web resource on African = astronomy and megaliths and your work will be featured. Thank you very much for any help you can give us. =20 = Sincerely, = John Mao =20 >From wheel Thu Oct 22 15:55:51 1998 To: hollyp@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: snedegar Content-Length: 196 Holly, I just checked my email queue again and don't find anything from you. I did get the list of Snedegar questions from Mary on Tuesday, but don't seem to have anything else. Thanks, Craig >From wheel Thu Oct 22 16:04:53 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Final Email Draft Content-Length: 42 John, That looks good. Fire away. Craig >From wheel Mon Nov 2 14:57:05 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: third hour Content-Length: 382 This is undoubtedly too late to do you any good, but the world's foremost expert on the "solar neutrino problem" John Bahcall from the Institute for Advanced Study (Einstein's final haunt) is giving a talk on solar neutrinos today at 4 PM in RLM 4.102. I'm giving a talk on "Supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts and the Age of the Universe" Wednesday evening at 7 PM in RLM 6.104. Craig >From wheel Wed Nov 4 15:17:42 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Rice Content-Length: 280 Mary, My colleague, Bob Robbins, reminds me that the query to Rice is not generic, but that he thingks that someone there might know specifically about a stone circle in west Africa. If you have not mailed or contacted them yet, you ought to use that clue in your query. Craig >From mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Wed Nov 4 16:56:36 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: references Cc: nancypaine@mail.utexas.edu Content-Length: 1499 Craig - The library copyright expert, Nancy Paine, sez that: 1. Yes, the material is copyright protected. 2. When you ask the publishers for permission they will probably ask for a royalty payment, or copyright fee. 3. Your class Web page is publically accessible - directly from the Astronomy Dept's web page. 4. The UT System copyright atty. has said that use for educational purposes - ie, 1 copy for every member of a class for one semester can be considered acceptable use, sort of like reserves. But leaving it up for more than one semester is not acceptable. 5. She (N. Paine) suggests that you seek permission from the publisher, knowing that it will take some time to get it, and knowing that they will ask for payment. You could then put the articles up and be covered since you are making a good faith effort to comply, and the permissions could probably be in place in time for next semester's use, if that is even an issue for your. -OR- 6. You can distribute copies of the articles to your class -OR- 7. You can place copies of the articles on reserve for the class to make their own copies. This is legit for a single semester's worth of class. Nancy - If I have garbled any of this please correct me. Thanks, Molly ec: Nancy Paine ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly T. White ' 512-495-4616 Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library ' mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Univ. of Texas at Austin ' >From wheel Wed Nov 4 17:17:21 1998 To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Freshman Seminar web page Content-Length: 54 Kristin, That's a great start! Thanks a lot. Craig >From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 3 13:26:08 1998 Subject: FW: Egypt photos for Craig Wheeler To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 449 Craig, I put the 8 photos I received from Tim on Astro's anonymous ftp area in the /pub/kristin directory. They will remain there for one week. Please let me know if you need your web site served from the department web server. I'm available if you need any other help. -Kristin ---------- From: TIM JONES To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Egypt photos for Craig Wheeler Date: Tue, Nov 3, 1998, 10:43 AM >From wheel Tue Nov 3 14:53:34 1998 To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: FW: Egypt photos for Craig Wheeler Content-Length: 129 Kristin I'd like to stop by with a student tomorrow at a little after 1 and talk to you about this web project. Thanks, Craig >From wheel Tue Nov 3 15:53:50 1998 To: mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: references Content-Length: 246 Molly, the citations for those two papers are: Lynch, B. M. and Robbins, L. H., Science, vol 200, 19 May, 1978, pp 766-768 and Malville, J. M., Wendorf, F., Mazar, A. A. and Schild, R. Nature, vol 392, April 1998, pp 488-490. Thanks, Craig >From wheel Tue Nov 3 16:12:34 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: research Content-Length: 184 Those of you who picked up new research topics today might want to chat with Clara Fowler. She's knows the research base very well and I think would be willing to lend a hand. Craig >From mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 3 17:25:54 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: references Content-Length: 1233 Craig - The Science article is older than any of our full text databases. I tried ADS also - not there. I would advise you to contact the journals' copyright and permissions offices to secure permission for both articles. >From Nature's web pages: "Whom do I contact for permission to use Nature copyrighted materials? For permissions contact (e-mail) permissions@nature.com quoting both the title of the contribution you want to use, and the issue of Nature it appeared in (e.g. Volume 382, No.6590, 1st August 1996). " For Science try e-mailing to: membership@aaas.org -OR- webmaster@aaas.org I've put in a call to the library's copyright person, and I'll let you know if she has anything definitive to say. Molly >Molly, > >the citations for those two papers are: > >Lynch, B. M. and Robbins, L. H., Science, vol 200, 19 May, 1978, pp 766-768 > >and > >Malville, J. M., Wendorf, F., Mazar, A. A. and Schild, R. >Nature, vol 392, April 1998, pp 488-490. > >Thanks, > >Craig ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly T. White ' 512-495-4616 Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library ' mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Univ. of Texas at Austin ' >From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Nov 4 16:13:21 1998 Subject: Freshman Seminar web page To: Jim West CC: Craig Wheeler Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 252 Jim, I am attaching the HTML document I used to get your web page started. You will find the link to this at http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/educa tion/courses.html. I hope this is a good start for you. Good luck, Kristin Logan c: Craig Wheeler >From hollyp@mail.utexas.edu Thu Nov 5 15:05:58 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: intermediate assignments Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 46 > I just sent the letter to Snedegar. Holly >From wheel Thu Nov 5 14:12:15 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: intermediate assignments Content-Length: 1508 I thought I would summarize my understanding of what various people are doing for assignments for the intermediate term, that is, in the next week or so as we continue to assemble information to write our summaries and construct the web page. Jim: webmaster Mike: rock art at Namoratunga and related sites Jamin: checking on L. R. Doyle, references and email contact (from email response of Robbins) Luke: contact with James Denbow in UT Anthropology Jason: other megaliths in Sudan and west Africa Mary: contacting Department of Anthropology at Rice That leaves Josh, Nic, John, Quoc, Holly and Tim to initiate a full court press to see if we can come up with some contacts in Africa. There seemed to be some sense to concentrate on cities, universities, and individuals in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and maybe Uganda. Some focus should be on the region around Lake Turkana in Kenya. SOMEONE must have been to Namoratunga II recently for some purpose or know something about it. Holly needs to mail Snedegar. Everybody should be thinking about how they want to contribute their final 8+ pages of text to the web site. Everybody should be thinking about the structure and content of the web site: text, graphics, audio. If you were constructing the site on your own, how would you do it. Look at the web and see how various sites you like are constructed. Check the source code ("document source" under the "view" menu on my Netscape browser) for hints of how to do nifty things. Craig >From wheel Thu Nov 5 14:31:10 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: seminar Content-Length: 342 Dave, I don't seem to have made any notation of when I am scheduled to give a talk to the Freshman Seminar's program. I have obtained some graphics, so feel prepared to talk on the subject of the seminar and what we are doing, Ancient Africa Astronomy (as opposed to my supernova research, which was the other possibility). Thanks, Craig >From wheel Fri Nov 6 14:03:46 1998 To: lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: title graphics Content-Length: 131 Luke, Not bad. How did you do the surreal Nabta one. I don't know if that gets us past copywrite, but it was pretty neat. Craig >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Fri Nov 6 14:07:41 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: title graphics Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 324 All i did i to get the surreal one is to filter the nabta photo through a filter in photo shop that makes it look like a pencil and charcoal drawing i could probably work to edit it somemore so it could be unrecognizable from the first one i don't know if that clears up the copyright issue either but it looks neat. luke >From m902856@hotmail.com Tue Oct 20 00:40:57 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.102.69] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Questions for Snedegar Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 989 Questions for Snedegar: 1. Could there be a linguistical relationship between the Cushitic people who built Namoratunga II & the people who built Nabta? 2. Do you know anything about megaliths in Africa (astronomically related)? 3. Do you know anything about Ancient Astronomy in Africa (BC)? 4. Do you have any new published works? 5. Could you give us any references for/pertaining to Ancient African Astronomy (people, groups, organizations)? 6. Did different peoples in different areas of Africa use different constellations? 7. How are the people spread out in Africa (BC, AD, present)? 8. What tribes from ancient times still exist today? Are any of them still using Astronomy? 9. What ancient tribes used astronomy? 10. Do you think the Megaliths had anything to do with religion or worshipping beliefs? 11. What tribes had calendars, etc.? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From fender@mail.utexas.edu Thu Oct 22 09:45:07 1998 X-Sender: fender@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Draft Cc: Namoratunga@mail.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 1724 >Delivered-To: fender@mail.utexas.edu >Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:51:40 +0000 >From: "Jamin S. Greenbaum" >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 (Macintosh; I; PPC) >To: fender@mail.utexas.edu >Subject: Draft > > > >Dear Dr. L. H. Robbins, > >I am writing on behalf of 11 other students here at the University of >Texas at Austin who are currently enrolled in a course dedicated soley >to the investigation of Astronomy in Ancient Africa. In conducting our >research, however, we have run into several questions and areas that our >efforts in investigating have not uncovered and of which a little >expertise might be needed. If you would not mind taking a few moments >to look over the included questions, we would greatly appreciate it. > What were your first impressions of Namoratunga II? Was there any direct dating of Namoratunga II? Were the stones used at Namoratunga II brought in from else where? What is the signifigance of the stones sloping? How deep are the stones buried? Has build-up of sediment or erosion occured after the site was abandoned? To your knowledge has any one returned to Namoratunga II? What conclusions have you come to as far as the signifigance of Namoratunga II as a Astro-archeological site? Could the site at Nabta be related to Namoratunga II? If so how do you explain the age discrepancy? Is there any signifigance of the stones at Nabta being circular and the ones at Namoratunga II being linear? Is one possibly more advanced than the other? Are there any other megalithic sites in Africa? Would you guess that there are more? How has the Borana Calandar survived over the years when its practicality has been lost? >Sincerely, > >Jamin Greenbaum > > > >From wheel Thu Oct 22 09:59:04 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: nabta mail Content-Length: 3950 DRAFT Dear Professor Malville and Professor Wendorf, I represent a group of researchers at the University of Texas in = Austin currently studying Ancient African megaliths and their historical = significance. After completly studying your recent magazine article = published in Nature (April 1998), entitled "Megaliths and Neolithic = Astronomy in Southern Egypt", we became further intrigued about your = studies of Nabta. =20 I was wondering if you could possibly answer a few questions we had = concerning Nabta. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Do you know = of any corralation between Nabta and Namoratunga? What are your = findings concerning possible astronomical alignments for the megaliths? = Do these finding corralate with Narmoratunga's alignments? If so, what = would you suggest as the bassis of this corralation? Are migrating = tribes (Nabtians moving to Namoratunga) a possibility? Where did the = Nabtians come from? What were they like? Where did they go? Do you = have a better idea or more proof about the age and purpose of Nabta? Is = there any possible relationship between Nabta and other megalithic = sites, such as Stonehenge? Have there been any new discoveries since = your last article? In that last article, the possibility of a second = publication later this year was mentioned. If this article is still = scheduled for print, when will it be due for publication? I greatly appreciate all your help. We have the intention of = creating a powerful web resource on African megaliths and your work will = be duly noted. Once again, thank you very much for all your help. = Sincerely, = John Mao MY SUGGESTED REVISIONS Dear Professor Malville and Professor Wendorf, I represent a group of students at the University of Texas at Austin currently studying ancient african astronomy, especially the megaliths and their historical significance. After studying your recent magazine article published in Nature (April 1998), entitled "Megaliths and Neolithic Astronomy in Southern Egypt", we became intrigued by your investigations of Nabta. We hoping that you can answer a few questions we have raised concerning Nabta. Do you know of any correlation between Nabta and Namoratunga II in eastern Kenya? What are your findings concerning possible astronomical alignments for the megaliths? Do these finding correlate with the alignments proposed for Namoratunga II by Lynch and Robbins? If so, what would you suggest as the basis of this corralation? Are migrating tribes (Nabtians moving to Namoratunga) a possibility? Where did the Nabtians come from? What were they like? Where did they go? Do you have a better idea or more proof about the age and purpose of Nabta? Is there any possible relationship between Nabta and other megalithic sites, such as Stonehenge? Have there been any new discoveries since your article in Nature? In that article, the possibility of a second publication later this year was mentioned. If this article is still scheduled for print, when will it be due for publication? We have the intention of creating a web resource on African astronomy and the megaliths and your work will be featured. Thank you very much for any help you can give us. = Sincerely, = John Mao >From wheel Wed Oct 21 21:21:03 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: email Content-Length: 114 I need the draft email messages to snedegar and robbins (Namoratunga). Before class tomorrow, if possible. Craig >From wheel Tue Nov 10 16:09:51 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Absence today... Content-Length: 5092 John, The big news was that Jamin turned up information for two more recent investigations of Namoratunga II and a fight over the astronomical alignments. I'll hand those out on Thursday. Jim West said you and he were going to consult on the opening page, but he was also not in class today. Did you talk to him? We talked some more about writing assignments for the web page. Drafts will be due Tuesday, Nov 24 to have time for me to look at them before the end of the term and get them posted on the web page. Craig > From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 10 13:45:59 1998 > To: "J. C. Wheeler" > Subject: Absence today... > MIME-Version: 1.0 > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE0CB1.03550200 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Professor Wheeler, > > Sorry for missing class today. I wasn't feeling too good this = > morning after I got back from my 9:30 class. I think I've caught a cold = > or something like that watching the football game last Saturday in the = > cold rainy weather. If you could please let me know of any crucial = > information you passed out or talked about during class today, i would = > greatly appreciate it. And, if you could also tell me whether there has = > been any further updates in the steps taken to making our web page. = > Thank you very much. > > = > = > Sincerely, > = > John = > Mao > > >From wheel Tue Nov 10 16:17:55 1998 To: jdwest@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Class Content-Length: 703 James, Thanks for checking in. We did not come up with anything new specifically for the web today, but Jamin did come up with some references to later visits to Namoratunga that are very interesting. Did you talk to John Mao or have a chance to work with the html of the opening page? Thanks, Craig > From jdwest@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 10 14:33:38 1998 > X-Sender: jdwest@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Subject: Class > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > Professor Wheeler, I am sorry that i missed class i was feeling ill this > morning and ended up sleeping through my alarm. If there is something that > you need to give me, I can run by your office sometime. > james > >From wheel Tue Nov 10 16:20:10 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: rock art Content-Length: 1093 Michael, Jamin came up with some more expeditions to Namoratunga and they contain discussions of rock art, so it will be a place for you to start. I'll hand that stuff out on Thursday. I also called for drafts of the next round of writing on Nov 24 since after Thanksgiving there is only one more week of classes. Craig > From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 10 15:28:48 1998 > X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] > To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Dear Proffesor Wheeler, > Sorry I haven't been to class lately, I've been a little under the > weather. I emailed that Rock Art person in Africa and I will scan the > articles that we have and see if they help him. So far, I have not > gotten a response from him. What has been going on in class that I've > missed? Have you come up with anything for me to write to fullfill the > requirement? Let me know when you get the chance. I'll be in class on > Thursday. > Sincerely, > Michael Hyman > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >From wheel Tue Nov 10 16:21:00 1998 To: jdwest@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Class Content-Length: 186 James, The other thing was that I decided that the drafts of the next round of writings should be turned in Nov 24 since there is only one more week of class after Thanksgiving. Craig >From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 10 15:28:48 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 596 Dear Proffesor Wheeler, Sorry I haven't been to class lately, I've been a little under the weather. I emailed that Rock Art person in Africa and I will scan the articles that we have and see if they help him. So far, I have not gotten a response from him. What has been going on in class that I've missed? Have you come up with anything for me to write to fullfill the requirement? Let me know when you get the chance. I'll be in class on Thursday. Sincerely, Michael Hyman ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From jdwest@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 10 14:33:38 1998 X-Sender: jdwest@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Class Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 210 Professor Wheeler, I am sorry that i missed class i was feeling ill this morning and ended up sleeping through my alarm. If there is something that you need to give me, I can run by your office sometime. james >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Thu Nov 5 19:11:37 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: title graphics Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 251 here are where i put some of my title graphic ideas up on the web i thought that way you maybe could foward this message to everyone and they could see if they liked them. they are located at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/7221/africa.htm luke >From hollyp@mail.utexas.edu Mon Nov 2 15:04:20 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: third hour Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1647 > I sent the letter to the wrong adress and it got sent back to me. I tried to > send it to you when it got sent back to me, but I'm computer illiterate, so > that didn't work out. Sorry about the tardiness of my letter. Holly Dear Mr. Snedegar, I am writing to you on behalf of my Ancient Astronomy in Africa class at the University of Texas at Austin. We are currently investigating the astronomy of ancient African tribes, including megaliths like Nabta and Namoratunga II. We are interested in any connections between this astronomy and present day Africa. We have read a couple of your articles and would like to ask for your help. We have compiled a list of questions to ask you: What ancient tribes used astronomy? What tribes used calendars, and did any tribes use the same calendar? Were different constellations used by the various tribes in Africa? Do you know much about astronomically related megaliths in Africa? Do you think that megaliths had anything to do with religious or worshipping beliefs? Could there be a linguistical relationship between the people who built Nabta and the people who built Namoratunga II? Do you have any recently published works? Could you give us any references for or pertaining to ancient astronomy in Africa? We would greatly appreciate it if you would respond to our questions and also add any information that you think would be helpful. We are planning to create a web page based on our findings. Sincerely, Holly Price > > > > >From wheel Wed Nov 4 17:40:55 1998 To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Freshman Seminar web page Content-Length: 202 Kristin, A couple of minor things. I'd like my name to be J. Craig Wheeler, the way my wife likes it, and my office is 17.230, not 212. I've got it linked from my home page now, too, Thanks, Craig >From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Thu Nov 5 11:16:51 1998 Subject: Re: Freshman Seminar web page To: Craig Wheeler Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 556 Craig, I made the updates this morning and I will email a copy of the updated HTML document to Jim. Please let me know if I can help in any other way. Thanks, Kristin ---------- >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu >Subject: Re: Freshman Seminar web page >Date: Wed, Nov 4, 1998, 5:40 PM > >Kristin, > >A couple of minor things. I'd like my name to >be J. Craig Wheeler, >the way my wife likes it, and my office is >17.230, not 212. > >I've got it linked from my home page now, too, > >Thanks, > >Craig > From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Nov 16 00:12:26 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: archeoastronomy Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 226 This is Tim, from class. Im working on the Links page for the web page, and I would really appreciate it if you could send me any links that you know of that would be good. Ill stick them all on there! cya Tuesday.... Tim From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Nov 16 00:38:36 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: wow Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 700 well ive found a wealth of stuff on Nabta... about those pictures you were wondering about copyright infringement on? well ive found them all over the web, and even downloadable from the university of colorado in "the official press release" so i dont think anyone minds if we use them. found them while making my links page. here's the URL's: http://www.colorado.edu/PublicRelations/Egypt.html. http://members.tripod.com/~redfern_jillian/astro.html From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Nov 16 00:42:10 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: wendorf heaven Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 267 http://www.smu.edu/~anthrop/fwendorf.html this page is Nabta heaven!!! Its even got a portrait of Wendorf himself! Not to mention lots of neat photos of stuff, including the ceremonial cow skeletons....-Tim From wheel Mon Nov 16 11:24:42 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: wow Content-Length: 133 Great, I think I'll ask anyway. I wonder why I could not find them when I looked at the Colorado press office page? Oh, well. Craig From wheel Fri Nov 13 16:57:00 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: writing assignments Content-Length: 1811 I apologize I did not get to this sooner, I had to write and administer an exam in my other course. As I said in class on Thursday, I would like to speed the process of writing summaries and getting material on the web page up a bit, by doing things in smaller pieces, but sooner. Here are some assignments I would like to make. As much as possible, I have tried to make these consonant with the topics on which you have already indicated you would like to work. It would be great if you could write some draft material and mail it to me before next Tuesday's class and also bring a hard copy to class. I would like everyone to read the Soper/Lynch "dialog," but please especially read the Doyle and Wilcox article. By "synopsis" below, I mean a short summary of what the main points of the paper are. This could be just a few paragraphs. Try to put the basic points in your own words. Whatever you write will count toward your "8 pages." After we get this first pass done, we'll take stock of what we need to do next. 1) Synopsis of Lynch and Robbins (1978) - Jim 2) Synopsis of Soper/Lynch- Jamin 3) Synopsis of Doyle and Wilcox - Nic 4) Synopsis of Malville et al (Nabta) Nature paper - Josh 5) Key Bibliography with annotations, a short description of what the paper contains and its relevance - Quoc 6) Summary of the Class - goals, structure, procedures, results - Mary 7) Discussion of Nabta cultural background - Jason 8) Discussion of petroglyphs - Michael 9) Discussion of cultural background of Namoratung'a I, II other Lynch and Robbins papers, etc - Luke 10) Discussion of astronomical issues - Borana calendar, key stars, star systems, Snedegar, precession, Paul paper - Tim 11) Summary comparing and contrasting Nabta and Namoratung'a II - Holly See you Tuesday, Craig From wheel Sat Nov 14 16:58:47 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Wendorf Content-Length: 954 Read that short article I gave you in class by Wendorf, Schild, Applegate, and Gautier! Toward the end he list a batch of references to megaliths and menhirs along the north coast of the Mediterranean (Renfew 1981), a conceivable link to Stonehenge and other European megaliths, and megalithic alignments and stone circles in "Sahalian and sub-Saharan Africa from Ethiopia to Senegal and north to the Maghreb..." being "especially numerous in West Africa where there are literally thousands of tumuli and megaliths" (Martin and Becker 1974, 1984, en francais). He also mentions "two older radiocarbon dates of 7440 BP and 6700 BP associated with megaliths in the Central African Republic," both of which are "rejected as too old." They are comparable to Nabta. I think that little collection hits every one of the allusions to megaliths in the email from Snedegar! We need to chase these references down and summarize them on the web site. Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 17 11:31:18 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: text Content-Length: 561 >Please print a hard copy and send the text to Kristin to >be posted on our web page. > >I need the hard copy by noon. ----------- It didn't decode completely; I printed the entire file & put in your folder. Perhaps Kristin has software that can further decode. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 19:13:15 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 688 that sounds good, I'll be in RLM tomorrow so I'll stop by your office when I'm there. I'll just bring you my rough draft when I'm there. Michael >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:54:30 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: mhyman23@hotmail.com >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > >Michael, > >thanks for the note. I did hand out the chapter by Warner >in Astronomy Before the Telescope where he actually gives >a picture of a petroglyph with a comet or meteor. You >might want to stop by and get a copy of that before you >finish your summar. > >Craig > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 17 19:27:34 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: rough draft Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 458 Dear Dr. Wheeler, Sorry I couldn't make it to class this tuesday. I've had a bad sinus infection for about a week and finally had to go to the doctor today. I will give my rough draft to you Thursday and probably e-mail it to you even sooner. Sometime tomorrow, late afternoon if that's alright. But I will be in class Thursday, regardless of my condition! Again, I apologize for the delay in getting my paper. Josh Britt From gurgi9@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 19:27:36 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.56.95] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Fwd: archeoastronomy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 2770 I thought this might interest you >--- Below this line is a copy of the message. > >Return-Path: >Received: (qmail 321 invoked by uid 0); 18 Nov 1998 00:58:01 -0000 >Message-ID: <19981118005801.320.qmail@hotmail.com> >Received: from 208.24.56.95 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; > Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:58:01 PST >X-Originating-IP: [208.24.56.95] >From: "Ubar Segodivi" >To: wheel@alla.ast.utexas.edu >Subject: Fwd: Re: archeoastronomy >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:58:01 PST > > > >>From sbrandt@anthro.ufl.edu Tue Nov 17 16:38:41 1998 >>Received: from [128.227.73.55] (ppp-01-ts19.nerdc.ufl.edu >[128.227.73.149]) >> by clas.ufl.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1/dna) with ESMTP id TAA20753 >> for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:38:38 -0500 (EST) >>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>X-Sender: sbrandt@anthro.ufl.edu (Unverified) >>Message-Id: >>In-Reply-To: <19981110050909.15259.qmail@hotmail.com> >>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:42:59 -0500 >>To: "Ubar Segodivi" >>From: Steven Brandt >>Subject: Re: archeoastronomy >> >>Nabta Playa continues to be investigated yearly by Dr. Fred Wendorf and >his >>team. As for Namoratunga, you might check with Dr. Peter Rogers at >Rutgers >>who runs the Koobi Fora Field School. He might know what's going on >there. >>You might also check with Dr. Larry Robbins at Michigan State (both are >in >>Anthropology). You can look up their e-addresses on the Web. >> >>Good luck, >> >>Steven Brandt >> >>>Do you or one of your associates know of any visits that have been >made >>>to the Nabta and Namoratunga sites within the past 20 yeats? I find >it >>>odd to think that these sites have gone ignored for so long. >>> >>>-Tim >>>FS Researcher >>>University of Texas at Austin >>> >>>______________________________________________________ >>>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >> >>******************************************************** >>Steven A. Brandt Office: 352/392-4736 >>University of Florida Lab: 352/392-1743 >>Department of Anthropology Dept: 352/392-2031 >>1350 Turlington Hall Fax: 352/392-6929 >>Gainesville, FL 32611-7305 U.S.A. E-mail: sbrandt@anthro.ufl.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 22:12:34 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 297 Craig, I just looked at your office hours on the syllabus and I have a class at that time so if you could leave the article on a chair outside your office I could come get it. Michael ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Wed Nov 18 09:07:02 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: rough draft Content-Length: 185 Josh, Sorry about your condition. I'll look forward to your draft. I did have a handout on Tuesday, remind me to give that to you. I also DID run off with your pen last week. Craig From wheel Wed Nov 18 09:09:15 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Content-Length: 39 I will leave the stuff outside. Craig From wheel Thu Nov 19 10:05:43 1998 To: gurgi9@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Fwd: archeoastronomy Content-Length: 124 Tim, Why don't you try to get in touch with: Dr. Peter Rogers at >Rutgers >>who runs the Koobi Fora Field School. Craig From wheel Thu Nov 19 10:12:13 1998 To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: FW: jpg Content-Length: 430 Kristin, I've lost track since Betty assigned that name and its greek, or Swahili, to me. I guess I'll have to look at it. If it is a bunch of low black rocks in front of a scrub bush, its Africa. Just to be precise, the categories are not Egypt and Africa, but Nabta and Nomoratunga. We are a little slow in getting the class to integrate, but I'll stop on to chat today before class if I can (late morning). Thanks, Craig From Gurgi9@aol.com Thu Nov 19 13:36:50 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Links Page Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 631 go here: Links Page Its the links page ive created for the web page. its still being created... the final will have a lot more links, but the basic format is down now... it takes only a few more minutes to add in more links, so its basically done except for appearance changes... i stuck it in the directoty with my web page in it.... well we can put this in the web page, underlined, as a clickable link... Wonder What Ancient South Africans Thought About The Stars? im preparing my writing topic on its own page as a resource, that i can stick up and we can link to.... From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Fri Nov 20 08:35:34 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Provost Ekland-Olson's lecture Content-Length: 236 Craig, there is no form--normally there is blue slip, but since the packets are not being picked up in the Student Union, Measurements and Evaluations did not send out the blue form. Just have the student ask for your packet. Thanks. From wheel Thu Nov 5 12:13:01 1998 To: addison@astro Cc: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: photo credits Content-Length: 697 Doug, in the July/August issue of StarDate you folks did an article on ancient megaliths in Egypt, a site called Nabta. My freshman seminar class is building a web site on Ancient Astronomy in Africa (http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/fall98/ wheelerfs301.html) and I got the scanned photos from that article from Tim Jones. I am wondering whether it is legal for us to post them (as I have) on a publically accessible web site. Your credits say "photos courtesy of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition." What rights do you have? Are these photos in any sense in the public domain? What should we do to get permission to use them on our web site. Thanks for any insight. Craig From wheel Tue Nov 10 14:30:42 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Doyle Content-Length: 227 Jamin, If you can contact Doyle, ask him whether they investigated any epochs other than 300 BC and, if so, what uncertainty they can put on that number in analogy to the constraints he put on the sighting uncertainty. Craig From wheel Sun Nov 22 11:25:20 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: my paper Content-Length: 146 got it, thanks, Do you have in mind what you want to do to round out your writing assignments. You probably need another 5 pages or so. Craig From wheel Sun Nov 22 11:28:51 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: scratch that. Content-Length: 103 The placement was right, but the text was an old draft. I'll forward the new one when I get it. Craig From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Sun Nov 22 02:48:03 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: man, I forgot Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 182 Dr. Wheeler, this is josh. I sent you my old draft! Not my new one. I'll send you my revised version tomorrow (Sunday). Sorry about the confusion. -joshua From wheel Sun Nov 15 21:21:49 1998 To: kristin Cc: wheel Subject: files for web page Content-Length: 267 Kristin Would you please put the next two files as email archive on our web site. One is mail within out class (mail.class) and one is our mail to outside people and their replies (mail.outside). I'll put them in the next two mails for convenience. Thanks, Craig From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 14:53:39 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 353 Craig, Sorry I wasn't in class again. I wanted to let you know that I could not find Lynch's thesis for the life of me. I searched the net and several libraries. Later this evening I will email you my summary of the petroglyphs. Michael ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Tue Nov 17 15:55:00 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Content-Length: 265 Michael, thanks for the note. I did hand out the chapter by Warner in Astronomy Before the Telescope where he actually gives a picture of a petroglyph with a comet or meteor. You might want to stop by and get a copy of that before you finish your summar. Craig From wheel Thu Nov 19 14:04:38 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Provost Ekland-Olson's lecture Content-Length: 283 Dave, I was just looking for the forms I need to send with a student to get the class evaluation materials. I was sure I had seen them, but could not find any such thing. Should I have them? Do I need them? Can I just send a student to the Office of the Provost? Thanks, Craig From wheel Thu Nov 19 14:08:40 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: links Content-Length: 997 Kristin, See you you can do a link to this set of links. That would mean we would not have to copy all of them, although I suppose that would be easy to do. Thanks, Craig > From Gurgi9@aol.com Thu Nov 19 13:36:50 1998 > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Subject: Re: Links Page > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > go here: > Links Page > Its the links page ive created for the web page. its still being created... > the final will have a lot more links, but the basic format is down now... it > takes only a few more minutes to add in more links, so its basically done > except for appearance changes... > > i stuck it in the directoty with my web page in it.... > > well we can put this in the web page, underlined, as a clickable link... > Wonder What Ancient South Africans Thought About The Stars? > im preparing my writing topic on its own page as a resource, that i can stick > up and we can link to.... > From wheel Mon Nov 23 11:12:37 1998 To: lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: submission Content-Length: 95 Luke, We could not read that Namoratunga document you submitted. What format was that? Craig From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Mon Nov 23 11:15:43 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: submission Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 68 it was word97 if you want i can send it in ascii (pure text) luke From wheel Mon Nov 23 11:21:48 1998 To: lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: never mind Content-Length: 18 We got it. Craig From wheel Mon Nov 23 11:45:50 1998 To: lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: other version Content-Length: 69 Thanks, I stored the ASCII and Kristin did handle the word97. Craig From wheel Mon Nov 23 16:20:15 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: starry nights Content-Length: 291 Hi, I have arranged for Lara Cross to bring our computer projection system and the Starry Night planetarium program to class tomorrow, so we can explore some of the stars of Namoratung'a and the Borana calendar. I learned a few things just playing with the system, so check it out. Craig From wheel Mon Nov 23 16:34:58 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: wheel Subject: Starry Africa Content-Length: 596 Lara, It occurred to me that another aspect of the African calendar we are studying is that the months are set by the rising of the new Moon in conjunction with various key stars and clusters. The text reads "each star or constellation appears successively in conjunction with the new moon in the order Triangulum, Pleiades, Aldebaran, Bellatrix, Central Orion, Saiph, and Sirius. Only Triangulum is utilized in the second half of the year beginning when Triangulum rises in conjunction with a full Moon." It would be neat to illustrate that if we can, now and in 300 BC. Thanks, Craig From wheel Mon Nov 23 16:58:24 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: African Moon Content-Length: 780 Lara, To be a bit more specific, the Borana lunar calendar seems to be based on the idea that the months are established by when the new Moon rises at the same declination as the various key stars, etc. That, in turn, is supposed to only make sense if we are talking 300 BC, independent of the stone alignments. That would be especially important to try to illustrate. That is, to check the correspondence of subsequent new Moon risings in declination with the various stars now and in 300 BC. Here is the relevant quote (from Ruggles: Four Approaches to the Borana Calendar) "'In six out of the twelve lunar months the seven constellations appear successively in conjunction with the Moon' refers to successive nightly observations within a month." Thanks again, Craig From wheel Tue Nov 24 10:48:43 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: contribution Content-Length: 2333 Kristin, This text should be at the top of the web page and links from its references to Nabta and Namoratunga could serve as the links to those sections of the web page. Thanks, Craig Nabta and Namoratunga II are both megalithici sites in Africa, and are thought to be astronomically related. Both could also be ceremonial sites. At both sites the rocks are tilted unlike many megaliths such as Stonehenge, where the rocks are perpendicular to the ground. This information suggests that the people who built Namoratunga II could somehow be connected to the people who built Nabta thousands of years earlier. Many differences between Nabta and Namoratunga II weaken the suggestion that the two could be connected. Nabta has been excavated and studied thoroughly, and radio carbon dated to have been built around 6000 B.C. Namoratunga II was not excavated. It was assumed to have been built around 300 B.C. because that was the radio carbon date on a related site. Nabta is reasonably well established to be astronomically related, with orientations north/south and with the summer solstice. There has been much discussion about whether Namoratunga II's astronomical alignments are correct or not, although the preponderance of evidence seems to be that it is. Nabta and Namoratunga II are also different because the Nabta calendar deals with alignments with the Sun, and Namoratunga II aligns with the stars. Nabta was a burial site. The bones of cows were found there. Namoratunga I was a burial site, but bones have not been found at Namoratunga II. Many differences also exist in the way the two megaliths were built. Nabta consists of several sites spread out over approximately one square mile. Namoratunga has three sites spread out over a greater area. Nabta sites are circular, but Namoratunga II is more linear. The rocks themselves are also different. The rocks at Nabta are much bigger than the rocks at Namoratunga II, which are only about one meter high, or less. Nabta's rocks are unshaped, but the rocks at Namoratunga II have been shaped to have four flat sides and a slanted top. The rocks at Namoratunga II also have petroglyphs on them and the rocks at Nabta do not. Many pieces of pottery that had symbols on them were found at Nabta, but no pottery was found at Namoratunga II. From wheel Tue Nov 24 10:50:06 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: last paragraph Content-Length: 472 Kristin, please add this text as a final paragraph to that I just sent. thanks, Craig It can be theorized that the same line of people who built Nabta could have migrated south over the thousands of years that passed between the construction of the two megaliths, and built Namoratunga II. Cultural changes over the large time span could account for the diferences between the two megaliths. Not enough evidence exists to come to a conclusion. From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 24 20:35:56 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: rocks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 571 Craig, You already read my original summary so I only sent you my additions that came from the Warner article and Nabta information. Michael >Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:22:15 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: mhyman23@hotmail.com >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu >Subject: rocks > >Michael, > >I got your supplement, but that is all I got. Did you send >something else? > >Thanks and happy thanksgiving to you, too. > >Craig > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From mhyman23@hotmail.com Wed Nov 25 15:51:58 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: rocks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 398 no problem, I'll get it to you in the next couple of days. >Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 21:37:11 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: mhyman23@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: rocks > >Michael, > >Okay, I just wanted the whole thing to post on the web page. > >Craig > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From m902856@hotmail.com Mon Nov 30 11:16:29 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.143] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Fwd: Re: Ancient African Astronomy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1273 >From marcus@rice.edu Mon Nov 30 07:27:04 1998 >Received: from [128.42.176.219] (swb5-asyn-15.rice.edu [128.42.176.218]) > by moe.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA09548 > for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:26:30 -0600 (CST) >X-Sender: marcus@ruf.rice.edu >Message-Id: >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:45:44 -0600 >To: "Mary Tran" >From: marcus@rice.edu (George Marcus) >Subject: Re: Ancient African Astronomy > > >Dear Mary Tran, > > You might try Rod or Susan McIntosh in our department--they are our >archaeologists and Africanists. > > George Marcus > > > Dr. Wheeler, I already wrote to the two people mentioned above, but as of yet, I have not received a reply. I will contact you as soon as it comes in. Also, I was thinking that those of us who wanted to finish the project could meet on the day we were supposed to have our final, and just work on finalizing the webpage and project. I'd be willing to stay and work on it. Mary ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Mon Nov 30 11:26:19 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Ancient African Astronomy Content-Length: 182 Mary, Thanks for volunteering. I was wondering what we would do if we did not quite finish everything we would like on the page. Let's see where we get in the next week. Craig h From gurgi9@hotmail.com Sun Nov 29 21:51:38 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.56.95] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: star data page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 341 well i completed my information from my asigned article, and ive posted it on the web at http://members.aol.com/gurgi9/stardata.html do you like it? then there is the links page that i am still adding to as i find links. -Tim ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Mon Nov 30 23:56:35 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: I was wondering Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 669 Dr. Wheeler, this is Josh again. For my last 5 pages of writing, I've been working on my original idea: a fun bit o' fiction about the original inhabitants of Nabta. It deals with the different functions of the megaliths there, as well as how they were relevant to the nomadic people's lives. I'm about halfway finished, and I have completely forgotten when you expected these final drafts to be due. I was wondering if it would be o.k. for me to turn my paper in on wednesday? If you get this before class tomorrow, and you have a minute, could you send me an e-mail with an answer on whether or not this is o.k.? I appreciate it. -joshua From wheel Tue Dec 1 09:26:27 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: I was wondering Content-Length: 250 Josh, I would like to have all the contributions by Thursday's class at the latest. It will still take some time to get them assembled on the web site. That is my major concern, how complete we can make the site before the end of the term. Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 10:40:28 1998 To: cornell@astro, kristin@astro, lcross@astro Cc: wheel Subject: tycho web page Content-Length: 145 Mark, Lara, Kristin, The material for this class web page will be put in the directory home/tycho/wheel/public_html/africa Thanks, Craig From sandi@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Dec 1 11:20:14 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: digital camera Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 345 Craig, There are no UT observers or staff traveling today or tomorrow that can bring the camera in in time for you to have it for classes on Thursday. Sandi -- Sandi Preston Director, Public Information Programs McDonald Observatory 2609 University Room 3.116 Austin TX 78712 512 475 6765 voice mail 512 471 5060 fax http://stardate.utexas.edu From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Dec 1 11:45:47 1998 Subject: Re: tycho web page To: Craig Wheeler , cornell@astro.as.utexas.edu, lcross@astro.as.utexas.edu CC: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 623 Craig, I transferred all the web page files to the directory you listed below. The link for the page is still active on hyperion. We can update that when the site from tycho is ready to go. Thanks, Kristin c: Cornell, Cross ---------- >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: cornell@astro.as.utexas.edu, kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu, lcross@astro.as.utexas.edu >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu >Subject: tycho web page >Date: Tue, Dec 1, 1998, 10:40 AM > >Mark, Lara, Kristin, > >The material for this class web page will be put in the directory > >home/tycho/wheel/public_html/africa > >Thanks, > >Craig > From wheel Tue Dec 1 14:02:32 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 99 Lara, The site for those jpegs is home/tycho/wheel/public_html/africa Thanks, Craig From wilhelm@puck.as.utexas.edu Tue Dec 1 15:21:27 1998 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wilhelm@puck.as.utexas.edu Subject: files Content-Length: 136 Craig, I have changed the permissions of the files and also made John Mao a group member so he should have write permission now. ROn From wheel Tue Dec 1 15:28:29 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 439 John, It turns out when the files were transferred they still had kristin as owner and I have to get the permissions changed. In the meantime, I changed the master hmtl document to "africa.html" and did a little playing around with that. So africa.html is now the de facto draft master web page. We may change it completely before we are through, including incorporating the material you gave us, but this has a place to start. Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 16:27:09 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: web Content-Length: 191 Kristin, I just went through the files and noticed that the draft web page we got on disk from John Mao was not there. I still have that disk, but just wondered what the status was. Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 17:11:26 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: new web address Content-Length: 195 I changed the name of the basic opening web page. Log into: http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html I fiddled with it a little today. John and I will work on it tomorrow. Craig From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Tue Dec 1 18:58:08 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: new web address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 1023 Dr. Wheeler, I can't seem to find my writing of Nabta on the web site you just sent. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 5:14 PM Subject: new web address >I changed the name of the basic opening web page. Log into: > >http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html > >I fiddled with it a little today. John and I will work on >it tomorrow. > >Craig > From wheel Tue Dec 1 21:21:52 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: new web address Content-Length: 285 Jason, your file is now in the shape of one manuscript about five lines long and 40 feet wide. I have no idea what is wrong with it. I'll try to fiddle with it, but we may have to have you submit it again, or give it to me on a disk or something. It's the file "nabta.doc." Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 22:00:03 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 198 Kristin, It occurs to me that it would really be handy to get your version of John Mao's handiwork because it was a pc doc and I don't have the software to read it again on my Mac. Thanks, Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 22:24:22 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: the finale Content-Length: 1486 Folks, Here is my understanding of what people have committed to do to finish up the writing assignments and provide web content. I need this by Thursday, or Friday at the latest: Michael - petroglyphs plus another 5 pages of material. Josh - synopsis of Malville (I don't think I have this yet) and a 5 page Nabta fiction story. Jason - 3 page summary of Nabta culture (that I still need to unscramble) and a 5 page story. Nic - two page summary of Doyle and Wilcox and a story Luke - 3 page Namoratunga summary done plus some images. Will write something on the Borana calendar. Jamin - 3 page summary of Soper artical (I need the electronic version), perhaps something on the pottery of Namoratunga and maybe a piece of science fiction. John - web master, piece on the Dogon Mary - mission statement summarizing the goals of the class and how we went about our task and a piece of Nabta fiction. Holly - drawings of Nabta at summer solstice and the Borana symbols as a petroglyph, a two page summary comparing and contrasting Nabta and Namoratunga, a piece on Astronomy before the Telescope. Tim - links page (one page), summary of the significance of the stars in modern (and presumably ancient) cultures, (two pages). The latter to be extended. Maybe some music and graphics. Quoc - annotated reference list plus ?? Jim - summary of Lynch and Robbins plus ?? Check the web page, it is shaping up... Is anyone going to write any fiction about Namoratunga? Craig From addison@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 10 10:50:22 1998 Subject: Nabta images To: "Craig Wheeler" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Length: 1390 Craig, The large photo on p. 16 and the three photos on pp. 18-19 were taken by Kim Malville and were sent to me by Ken Abbott (abbottk@spot.colorado.edu) at the CU public relations department. You may want to drop him a note to let him know how you plan to use the images. I'm sure there will be no problem. I think the small image on p. 16 and the chart on p.19 came from Fred Wendorf through Damond. Tim made some modifications to the chart, though. Again, you may want to give Wendorf a courtesy call. The map is from the PCL map collection, with location information supplied by Wendorf through his article in Nature. We used the blanket credit "Combined Prehistoric Expedition" for simplicity, and no one seemed to have a problem with it. Let me know if you have other questions. And now that I have your attention... Can I ask you to give some more thought to supplying an article for the May/June 1999 AstroPrimer column? Frank is initiating this new column with his article "How Stars Work" in the March/April issue. Damond and I would like to make stars the focus for the 1999 installments of "AstroPrimer" and would like you, Tom, Greg Shields, and/or others to write short (<1000 words) articles explaining your areas of specialty. Thanks. Doug -------- Doug Addison - StarDate magazine - StarDate Online 512-475-6763 - http://stardate.utexas.edu From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 24 17:19:19 1998 X-Sender: betty@astro.as.utexas.edu (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: scans Content-Length: 537 C. I tried the color drawing but even with cropping, the computer doesn't have enough disk space -- I need to consult with Kristin about that. She told me she doesn't have time until Monday to work with it anyway, so we'll do it then. B. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Tue Nov 24 17:22:17 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: rocks Content-Length: 137 Michael, I got your supplement, but that is all I got. Did you send something else? Thanks and happy thanksgiving to you, too. Craig From wheel Wed Nov 25 16:10:08 1998 To: cornell@astro Cc: wheel Subject: access Content-Length: 512 Mark, Kristin has been a great help in getting a proto-type web page up and running for my Freshman Seminar class, but to work on it further it would be convenient (and get Kristin out of the loop) if I could have access to the server. I would also like to get access for one of my students to be the key person to work on the page over the next couple weeks. He is John Mao. site is: http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/fall98/wheelerfs301.html Can you set this up for me, please? Thanks, Craig From wheel Wed Nov 25 16:11:57 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: class web site Content-Length: 261 John, I turned over your web work to Kristin Logan and she was very impressed. She independently suggested that you get access to the server. I have asked our System Manager for that access for you and me. I'll get you the password, etc when I hear. Craig From cornell@puck.as.utexas.edu Thu Nov 26 20:59:27 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Cc: cornell@puck.as.utexas.edu, kristin@astro Subject: Re: access Content-Length: 1309 Hi Craig, > From wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Wed Nov 25 16:11:47 1998 > Subject: access > > Mark, > > Kristin has been a great help in getting a proto-type web page up and > running for my Freshman Seminar class, but to work on it further it would > be convenient (and get Kristin out of the loop) if I could have access to > the server. I would also like to get access for one of my students to be > the key person to work on the page over the next couple weeks. He is > John Mao. > > site is: http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/fall98/wheelerfs301.html > > Can you set this up for me, please? > > Thanks, > Craig The department web server is a secure system and I would strongly prefer to restrict access to it. For long term development of your course, it seems to me to be a better idea to install the course web materials on one of your own workstations already running a web server, such as tycho. Or we could install a web server on another of your machines. We would put the appropriate links on the department server so this would be transparent to the users of the site. This has the advantage that you can modify your course any way you like without having to wait on us for updates, etc. Let me know what machine you'd like this to live on, and I'll set it up. Thanks, Mark From wheel Mon Nov 30 11:14:12 1998 To: gurgi9@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: star data page Content-Length: 175 Tim, Thanks, I'll check it out. I also wanted to remind you to pick up the class evaluation materials in the Vice-Provosts office and bring them to class tomorrow. Craig From wheel Mon Nov 30 18:19:01 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 456 Kristin, Mark did not want to let an undergrad get access to the secure web server, so I'm going to move the Afro web page to tycho. I asked Ron Wilhelm to get you an account. Could you please follow up on that and transfer the pages to tycho (home/tycho/wheel/public_html) so that my students and I can get access to the source code. I need this done pretty quickly since we need to work on the page this week, the last week of classes. Thanks, Craig From wheel Mon Nov 30 21:47:39 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: web Content-Length: 374 Tim, That star summary is nice. You should put the complete reference to the article by Snedegar. You might change the background. I found that I could not print your document from the screen. It just came out blank. Also, although the background looks nice on your links page, I found that the clicked-on links that turned blue were hard to read. Good work, Craig From wheel Mon Nov 30 21:49:29 1998 To: wilhelm@astro Cc: wheel Subject: newguy Content-Length: 81 Ron, I also need a tych account for an undergraduate, John Mao. Thanks, Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 22:56:37 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: text Content-Length: 372 Jason, One problem (at least) is that the text you submitted seems to have control characters (like ^M) embedded in it throughout. We may just have to get your material straight off a disk unless you can save it in straight ascii text some way and mail it. I'll wrestle with this a little more at work tomorrow, but it is really choking my editor to look at it. Craig From Gurgi9@aol.com Wed Dec 2 01:22:35 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: actually Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 190 actually, since you might not have photoshop5.0, and you need that in order to view the pictures, i posted the big one at: http://members.aol.com/gurgi9/intro.html quite a beauty, isnt she! From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 08:22:04 1998 Subject: Re: web page To: Craig Wheeler Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 479 Hi Craig, No problem. I will need to get the disk from you as I did not copy the documents to my hard drive. -Kristin ---------- >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu >Subject: web page >Date: Tue, Dec 1, 1998, 10:00 PM > >Kristin, > >It occurs to me that it would really be handy to get your version >of >John Mao's handiwork because it was a pc doc and I don't have >the software to read it again on my Mac. > >Thanks, > >Craig > From wheel Wed Dec 2 09:08:34 1998 To: betty@astro Cc: wheel Subject: translate Content-Length: 179 Betty, We are still trying to get a decent text from this student. Could you please try again to see if you can decode this? There may be two versions attached. Thanks, Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 11:44:58 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: translate Content-Length: 518 >Betty, > >We are still trying to get a decent text from this student. >Could you please try again to see if you can decode this? > >There may be two versions attached. ----------- Go ahead & mail that to me & I'll try. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Wed Dec 2 12:30:41 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: luke images Content-Length: 194 John, Of course I recalled that I had my notebook in my pack as soon as you left. Luke's address with the images he has created is: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/7221/africa.htm Craig From wheel Wed Dec 2 13:46:25 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: wheel Subject: gifs Content-Length: 138 Lara, The gifs look great! this is still under construction, but check out http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html Craig From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 13:58:57 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: grade sheets Content-Length: 447 Dear FS instructor: I have the grade sheets for your freshman seminar and will be distributing all the sheets in the morning--I delivered a few earlier today but must teach this afternoon. You will need to return the filled-in grade sheet to me so that I can keep track of all the sheets and turn them in to the Office of the Registrar. If you have not yet had your seminar evaluate your course, the forms are in Main 201 with the receptionist. From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 14:29:04 1998 X-Sender: betty@astro.as.utexas.edu (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: files Content-Length: 367 What you sent are 2 Photoshop images. Maybe you should look at this. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 16:48:18 1998 Subject: latest image To: Craig Wheeler Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 187 Hi Craig, I put the image that I got today on tycho. It's titled "stone.drwg.jpg". I'm pretty sure that's the one you showed me this afternoon, but if not, let me know. Thanks, Kristin From wheel Wed Dec 2 17:05:01 1998 To: jspyromi@eso.org Cc: wheel Subject: mansscript Content-Length: 129 Jason, Send that document as an attachment directly to my secretary betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Let's try that, Thanks, Craig From wheel Wed Dec 2 18:40:25 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: mansuscript Content-Length: 174 Jason, I'm not sure I did not screw up my mail. Can you send your contribution directly to my secretary as a word attachment to: betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Thanks, Craig From wheel Wed Dec 2 18:41:48 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: ms Content-Length: 51 Josh, I got that and have incorporated it. Craig From wheel Wed Dec 2 18:57:37 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 209 Check it out, it's coming along. John is working on the format while I'm trying to flesh out the links. We need CONTENT! And I need Fred Wendorf's email address which I cannot seem to find. Thanks, Craig From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 20:02:56 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: web page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 1106 Professor Wheeler, I thought I mentioned Fred Wendor's email address to you before. Just in case, here it is. Fred Wendorf fwendorf@mail.smu.edu -John Mao -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 7:00 PM Subject: web page >Check it out, it's coming along. John is working on the format >while I'm trying to flesh out the links. We need CONTENT! > >And I need Fred Wendorf's email address which I cannot seem to >find. > >Thanks, > >Craig From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 21:19:26 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: web page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 1750 Ok, I think that Professor Wheeler and I figured out a good idea of approaching these last few days in working on the web page. He will be maintaining and updating constantly the web page at http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html I have been working here in my small Jester room on the new web layout. You're probably wondering how it's coming along, so I've decided to open up my computer entirely to you all. The new layout and a lot of what's on the current africa website has been migrated over to this new layout. i haven't gotten a chance to finish it all yet, but I hope to do so tomorrow, after my PHL313K final! For now, it's there so, browse on over to: http://129.116.34.172/index.htm and take a look around. Please bring your comments tomorrow to class or email me. Thanks, John Mao -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 7:00 PM Subject: web page >Check it out, it's coming along. John is working on the format >while I'm trying to flesh out the links. We need CONTENT! > >And I need Fred Wendorf's email address which I cannot seem to >find. > >Thanks, > >Craig From jspyromi@eso.org Wed Dec 2 22:54:44 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: mansscript Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 627 Dear Graig I got this from you. Unless there is some time warp I have no idea what you are refering too. Since I got the message from you just to let you know that VLT is going well. We are in the final stages of the first commissioning run of the infrared imager/spectrograph and have not as yet had an image above 0.5 arcseconds. Some nice data on the eso web site http://www.eso.org let me know what the message was about anyway. best wishes Jason Craig Wheeler wrote: > Jason, > > Send that document as an attachment directly to my secretary > > betty@astro.as.utexas.edu > > Let's try that, > > Thanks, > > Craig From Gurgi9@aol.com Thu Dec 3 01:36:22 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: new stuff Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 694 well i made an awesome web page now thats 6 pages on my browser... plus i made two pix that you can see at members.aol.com/gurgi9/info.html. the URL of my grand page is members.aol.com/gurgi9/stardata.html. so how is that? for my big page i had to create some further graphics with photoshop and I even went through for each star group and located pictures or diagrams for them. anyway... oh, also, for my AST104 seminar class im supposed to talk with an astronomy faculty member for a bit and then i need you to send an email to Dr. Shields telling him that you did indeed talk to me. the idea of it is that i get to know a faculty member a litle better. do you think we could do that? From wheel Thu Dec 3 09:01:41 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: web page Content-Length: 62 I'm sure you did, I just could not find it last night. Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 09:15:12 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Jason Clendenen" Subject: Re: Web page stuff Cc: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Content-Length: 1137 > Dear Betty, I am a student of Dr. Wheeler's. I have two >files for you to put on the web page for his freshman seminar. Thank >you, Jason Clendenen >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Circle of stones.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00023EFF) >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:nabta2.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00023F00) ---------------- Jason, what application & version of that application did you use to create these files? There are certain characters that aren't converted by my MS Word v.6 -- for example the quotes and dashes (I think) are replaced by random characters. I can fix those, but there is indecipherable matter at the top & bottom of both files. In Circle of Stones, is this the last sentence? -- The Star People had aided them once again. If so, I'll just delete all the extraneous matter & it should be ok. Betty Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Thu Dec 3 09:25:36 1998 To: qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Annotations Content-Length: 131 Quoc, Would you also send that document as an attachment directly to my secretary at: betty@astro.as.utexas.edu? Thanks, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 3 13:57:56 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: photo Content-Length: 339 Mary, I took a few class photos today that I will try to scan and put on the web site. It is not too late to include you, thanks to the magic of photoshop. If you stop by today or tomorrow (with your disk of contributions if that is convenient) I could take a couple of you so we could see what we can do to merge them. Thanks, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 3 14:01:20 1998 To: fender@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: disk Content-Length: 132 Nic, I think I located a fellow with a 5 1/2 inch floppy, but It might be easier if you just stop by and get a 3 inch disk. Craig From wheel Thu Dec 3 14:16:18 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: The End Content-Length: 486 Folks, I did not make a big thing of it in the midst of having fun with the web page, but today was the last class. There is no final and we won't formally meet during the scheduled final spot. The defacto final is getting the web page complete. I just noticed that when I edited my email list at midterm, I managed to edit Nic out, so he has been missing our mail. If you have an alias for the class, please include fender@mail.utexas.edu Thanks for all your good work! Craig From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 15:11:47 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: The End MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 1397 Thanks Dr. Wheeler for the fun class. I might try to take an astronomy class in a year or two, so maybe I'll see you then. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; fender@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 2:16 PM Subject: The End >Folks, > >I did not make a big thing of it in the midst of having fun >with the web page, but today was the last class. There >is no final and we won't formally meet during the scheduled >final spot. > >The defacto final is getting the web page complete. > >I just noticed that when I edited my email list at midterm, >I managed to edit Nic out, so he has been missing our mail. >If you have an alias for the class, please include > >fender@mail.utexas.edu > > >Thanks for all your good work! > >Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 16:24:57 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: office 98 Content-Length: 586 The Nguyen file : I decoded it & opened with Word v6, getting the garbage top & bottom. Sent the raw file to Kristin, she decoded it & opened with Office 98 and got the perfect paper now in your folder. Kristin will install the above application for me as soon as she gets a chance. B. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Thu Dec 3 16:42:20 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: success Content-Length: 156 Jason, I found a grad student with a PC and we read your files and transferred them to my workstation. Netscape reads them fine, so we've done it. Craig From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 17:41:08 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: success MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 528 Good, Let me know if you need anything else. Jason ps - I just finished your book. Good job - I liked it. -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 4:45 PM Subject: success >Jason, > >I found a grad student with a PC and we read your files and >transferred them to my workstation. Netscape reads them >fine, so we've done it. > >Craig From fender@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 17:52:40 1998 X-Sender: fender@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Story Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 271 Your probably not up at the office this late but I'm here at school with my story and 5.5 floppy disk. So, if your in I'll stop by your office and drop it off. If not I can drop it off tomorrow some time between 3 and 4. E-mail me if your in when you get this. Nic From wheel Thu Dec 3 21:19:46 1998 To: fender@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Story Content-Length: 179 Nic, I was there then (until 7:30 actually, grading stuff for my other class) but not checking email. I have a meeting tomorrow from 3 to 3:30 but will be in after that, Craig From m902856@hotmail.com Fri Dec 4 03:08:50 1998 X-Originating-IP: [129.116.78.130] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: photo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1434 Dr. Wheeler, I am so sorry once again for missing class...and the last day no less! I was working on an assignment til about 6:30am last night, and I didn't wake up until 1pm. augh!!! I missed my classes and everything! Well, I'm going to stop by and drop off my assignments tomorrow (friday). If you're not there then I'll just drop off the paperwork/disk and see you at another time for the picture. About the timeline...I don't know of the dates that we received certain articles and written work, so I'm not so sure the timeline would be worth much. Did you want all of the e-mails accounted for in it too? If you still wish for me to do the timeline, then I will do it after my finals on friday of next week. Right now, I really don't have that much time to go through all of those e-mails and figure things out. Also, after we turn everything in, is there still a way that we could get our books and disks back? thank you! mary tran...AAA > >Mary, > >I took a few class photos today that I will try to scan and put >on the web site. It is not too late to include you, thanks >to the magic of photoshop. > >If you stop by today or tomorrow (with your disk of contributions >if that is convenient) I could take a couple of you so we >could see what we can do to merge them. > >Thanks, > >Craig ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Fri Dec 4 09:05:14 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: office 98 Content-Length: 606 >Betty, > >Thanks a lot. I need an html version of that manuscript if >we can generate it. Or plain text in an electronic version >I can read if possible. ----------------- I can send the file back again to Kristin for the html or I can save the file in text only and mail it to you. Which do you prefer? Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Fri Dec 4 11:14:20 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: photo Content-Length: 270 Mary, I would say don't worry about a detailed time line at this point. A basic narrative of goals and methods would be fine. I have kept a lot of the email and will post that. I'm off for lunch, but will be around all afternoon, with a meeting from 3 to 3:30, Craig From m902856@hotmail.com Fri Dec 4 11:51:49 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.129] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: photo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1206 Dr. Wheeler I have a doctor's appointment, so I should be there sometime between 3:30 and 5 o'clock. If you can't be there then please page me at 206-9586 and leave your number and *12 after the beep. If I miss you by then, I have my picture on the disk as well. Thank you! mary >From wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Fri Dec 04 09:16:38 1998 >Received: from [128.83.129.243] by hotmail.com (1.0) with SMTP id MHotMail30902445847035065324992152956403336330; Fri Dec 04 09:16:38 1998 >Received: by alla.as.utexas.edu (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) > id LAA03288; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 11:12:22 -0600 (CST) >Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 11:12:22 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >Message-Id: <199812041712.LAA03288@alla.as.utexas.edu> >To: m902856@hotmail.com >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu >Subject: Re: photo > >Mary, > >I would say don't worry about a detailed time line at this point. >A basic narrative of goals and methods would be fine. I have >kept a lot of the email and will post that. > >I'm off for lunch, but will be around all afternoon, with >a meeting from 3 to 3:30, > >Craig ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu Fri Dec 4 14:25:06 1998 X-Sender: qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: moon journal and research journal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 291 Dr. Wheeler, I forgot all about the journals yesterday in class. Is it still possible for me to turn in the journals? If so(please say yes!! It's 30%!!), I would like to know when I can meet with you in order to turn these in. I'm sorry for any inconvienence this may cause. Quoc Nguyen From wheel Fri Dec 4 16:45:11 1998 To: qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: moon journal and research journal Content-Length: 115 Quoc, Drop those by my office any time before next Tuesday. No panic, but the sooner the better. Thanks, Craig From wheel Fri Dec 4 16:46:25 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: moon journals and research notebooks Content-Length: 156 If you did not turn in your moon journals and research notes on Thursday, slip them under my door (RLM 17.230) over the weekend if you can. Thanks, Craig From mhyman23@hotmail.com Fri Dec 4 21:14:07 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 412 Craig, I've been having trouble with my last five pages and will get them to you this weekend so they can go on the page. I have two third hour activities to add to the list. A special viewing of a Hindi film, and Belly dancing at the UGL. I might have already recorded the Hindi Film. Michael ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Sat Dec 5 17:12:44 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Content-Length: 599 Okay, Thanks, Craig > From mhyman23@hotmail.com Fri Dec 4 21:14:07 1998 > X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] > To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Craig, > I've been having trouble with my last five pages and will get them to > you this weekend so they can go on the page. I have two third hour > activities to add to the list. A special viewing of a Hindi film, and > Belly dancing at the UGL. I might have already recorded the Hindi Film. > Michael > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > From wheel Sun Dec 6 10:44:51 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: journals Content-Length: 113 You can pick up your moon journals and research journals from a chair in front of my office by Wednesday. Craig From romo@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 11:28:50 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" To: jdowning@mail.utexas.edu, rprentice@mail.utexas.edu, jeslate@mail.utexas.edu, h.romo@mail.utexas.edu, pstrong@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, mxwells@nora.hrc.utexas.edu, canningc@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, mackay@mail.utexas.edu, jvelz@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, ramberg@mail.utexas.edu, rdoughty@mail.utexas.edu, nethercut@mail.utexas.edu, marysteinhardt@mail.utexas.edu, jkroll@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, krascati@mail.utexas.edu, kkitt@mail.utexas.edu, sgreninger@mail.utexas.edu, ekaulbach@mail.utexas.edu, shorne@mail.law.utexas.edu, SGH@mail.utexas.edu, rking@mail.utexas.edu, v.hampton@mail.utexas.edu, gracy@uts.cc.utexas.edu, n.kwallek@mail.utexas.edu, selbyhenry@mail.utexas.edu, msvinicki@mail.utexas.edu, doliphant@mail.utexas.edu, fowler@csr.utexas.edu, rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu, slross@mail.utexas.edu, j.lippmann@mail.utexas.edu, trubowitz@mail.utexas.edu, silverth@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, joy@mail.utexas.edu, jdgar@mail.utexas.edu, rmettlen@optionii.bus.utexas.edu, jndelgado@mail.utexas.edu, mberry@xmail.utexas.net, ffox@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, pennock@uts.cc.utexas.edu, mjamail@jeeves.la.utexas.edu, david.hunter@mail.utexas.edu, adrgb@utxdp.dp.utexas.edu, arellano@mail.utexas.edu, lobell@mail.utexas.edu, wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu, PKruppa@mail.utexas.edu, brr@prc.utexas.edu, ymora@mail.utexas.edu, aikahera@mail.utexas.edu, dwharton@io.com, seo@mail.utexas.edu, dr.pat@mail.utexas.edu, toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu, gonzalez-gerth@mail.utexas.edu, parmentr@uts.cc.utexas.edu, drrwjack@yahoo.com Subject: Thank you Content-Length: 1569 Times_New_RomanDecember 7, 1998 Dear Freshman Seminars Instructor: From all the reports that I personally have received, the Fall 1998 freshman seminars have been a huge success, and I wish to thank you for your invaluable contribution to the program. I know that the students had an experience that will be vital to them throughout their academic careers at the University. The longer they are here the more they will appreciate the special opportunity they had to work so closely with an outstanding and dedicated instructor like yourself. And years from now they will benefit from the experience in whatever professional field they enter. Without your generosity in sharing your time and energy with the freshmen, this program would not be possible. The Freshman Seminars have been called one of the most important developments at the University in the past twenty-five years, and an indication of this is the fact that so many other universities are beginning to imitate UT's program. I am deeply grateful to you for your part in making the Freshman Seminars a memorable experience for the first-year students and look forward to having you with us again in Fall 1999. Sincerely yours, Ricardo Romo, Vice Provost Director of the Freshman Seminars Program ********************************* * Ricardo Romo * * Vice Provost * * Main 201 * * The University of Texas * * Austin, Texas, 78712-1111 * * Tel. 512-232-3310 * ********************************* From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 14:37:13 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Third Hours Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 378 Dr. Wheeler, I just wanted to make sure all the third hours were accounted for. I noticed last time that my name wasn't highlighted. If you look on the first page where it says "AIAA general meeting/SEC meeting" on September 14th I think-that was two different meetings and that should make fifteen activities, I believe. E'mail me if you dissagree. Thanks a lot, Jamin From wheel Mon Dec 7 15:00:00 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: story Content-Length: 327 Mary, I looked at your disk this morning and the story does not seem to be there. There are the three jpg's of you, and the mission outline, but the other file is a tmp file that seems to be empty. I guess I need you to write your story on a disk again (or pick this one up) and drop it off. Sorry for the bother, Craig From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Dec 7 15:42:50 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: journals Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 306 so do you think we could talk for a few minutes on tuesday so i can get my thing out of the way for ast104? i have to go up for a review between 11-12, if that would help any. but i understand if you're busy. also, ill have the rest of my writing up tonight, if you wanna look at my web sites.... -Tim From lara@astro.as.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 15:45:03 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Picts Content-Length: 312 I've got the pictures done, if you want to come load them up to tycho or bring the floppy. I did a fair job of putting the student in the group photo.... I forgot to give her a shadow though! It's not too obvious since the light was diffuse in the orginal anyway (I'm just being a picky perfectionist!). Lara From wheel Mon Dec 7 16:29:23 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: wheel Subject: another shrink job Content-Length: 107 Lara, Please also shrink http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/holly_nabta_drawing.jpg Thanks Craig From lara@astro.as.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 16:45:21 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: another shrink job Content-Length: 209 >Lara, > >Please also shrink > >http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/holly_nabta_drawing.jpg > >Thanks > >Craig I'm going home for the day, but I'll have all of it ready for you tomorrow. See ya, Lara From wheel Mon Dec 7 17:13:42 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Belated Paper Content-Length: 31 Jamin, got it, thanks, Craig From wheel Mon Dec 7 17:17:29 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Third Hours Content-Length: 660 Jamin, Okay, I'll count those two separately, 15 it is. Craig > From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 14:37:13 1998 > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Subject: Third Hours > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Dr. Wheeler, > > I just wanted to make sure all the third hours were accounted for. I > noticed last time that my name wasn't highlighted. If you look on the > first page where it says "AIAA general meeting/SEC meeting" on September > 14th I think-that was two different meetings and that should make > fifteen activities, I believe. E'mail me if you dissagree. > > Thanks a lot, > > Jamin > > From wheel Mon Dec 7 17:22:39 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: journals Content-Length: 162 Tim, I will be in tomorrow by about 10ish if you want to stop in. I'll have a look at your web site. Keep an eye on the class site, it is still growing. Craig From wheel Mon Dec 7 17:23:36 1998 To: lara@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Picts Content-Length: 122 I got down there just at 5 and must have just missed you. I'll check in tomorrow morning. Thanks for your help!! Craig From wheel Mon Dec 7 18:05:19 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: update Content-Length: 1248 Hi, I made myself a To Be Done list yesterday and today and checked a few things off. Let me know if you can think of other things. Craig XXscan class photo, Mary Tran photo XXscan Mary's sketch for story. XXscan Lynch and Robbins alignment map combine class photo in PhotoShop (add Nam II rocks, black guy?) add Mary's story from disk to site: problem with text XXadd Mary's pics from disk to site XXadd Mary's drawing from disk to site XXadd Mary's class summary from disk to site add background commentary on Nabta summary of Lynch and Robbins, write if nothing from West add refs to Quoc list, edit XXadd Nic's story from word perfect XXadd Jamin's story check on permission for "Starry Night" new material on Borana calendar from Luke add Luke's images somewhere XXreduce scans of Holly's sketches in PhotoShop XXadd counter update Tim's link list add Tim's "back to" graphic, etc add Tim's "African Stars" material XXcheck Mac at work for "save as html" proof read add discussion of other megaliths highlight Kenyan sky of 300 BC add interlinks in material, figures, Wendorf, cows tumulus combine John's home page, other material register with YAHOO, etc make movie of starry night add midi music From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 18:58:02 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: hi Dr. Wheeler Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 541 This is josh. I had to leave town unexpectedly this weekend, but I'm back now and I have two more Third-hour activities to turn in. you had told me to e-mail them to you. By the way, I got your e-mail about the journals, but I only had a research journal and it was basically the material that we discovered in our first month of class. So I didn't know if it would be worth contributing or not. If it is, I can drop it by your office. Otherwise i guess I'll just keep it. Did you receive my second essay? Talk to you later, -joshua. From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Dec 7 23:23:24 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: requirements Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 281 well hers what i got that one pic that other pic a new expanded links page - i added a lot, you gotta check it out! and i added a new section and expanded the text on my STARDATA page. a new pic also so, is that enough or do you need more? p.s. im still lookin for the 2001 MIDI From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Tue Dec 8 00:29:38 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: oops Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 532 O.K., I'm an idiot! I forgot to write my third-hour activities in the last e-mail, so here they are: -Concert in Welch on Nov 13th -Faulkner Fox group poetry reading on Nov 17th (i might have already written this one down) -Italian culture seminar on Nov. 16th, and -Charlesworth on humanities, Nov 17th. Thanks again and I enjoyed your class!! The website is looking great! I kinda answered my own question in the last e-mail about my second essay, as I saw it has already been posted. Talk to you later, -joshua From wheel Tue Dec 8 03:15:23 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: hi Dr. Wheeler Content-Length: 1186 Josh, Do drop off the research journal. I want to keep a copy of those (I just decided) in case individuals have tidbits I don't recall. Another class might extend this some day. Do tell me the other 3rd hour activities, for the record. Remind me of your second essay. I have assimilated so much material in the last week I'm a little paranoid of forgetting something. I have you Nabta essay and your story. You can check them on the site. Craig > From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 18:58:02 1998 > X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Subject: hi Dr. Wheeler > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > This is josh. I had to leave town unexpectedly this weekend, but I'm back > now and I have two more Third-hour activities to turn in. you had told me > to e-mail them to you. By the way, I got your e-mail about the journals, > but I only had a research journal and it was basically the material that we > discovered in our first month of class. So I didn't know if it would be > worth contributing or not. If it is, I can drop it by your office. > Otherwise i guess I'll just keep it. Did you receive my second essay? > Talk to you later, -joshua. > > From wheel Tue Dec 8 03:21:21 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: requirements Content-Length: 620 Tim, That will be plenty, thanks. I need to get all that onto the class site. Maybe we can talk about how best to do that when you stop by today. Craig > From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Dec 7 23:23:24 1998 > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Subject: requirements > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > well hers what i got > > that one pic > that other pic > a new expanded links page - i added a lot, you gotta check it out! > and i added a new section and expanded the text on my STARDATA page. a new pic > also > > so, is that enough or do you need more? > p.s. im still lookin for the 2001 MIDI > From seo@mail.utexas.edu Tue Dec 8 06:33:21 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Freshman Seminars:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: Thanks Content-Length: 624 Dear Colleagues: Let me join the Director of the Freshman Seminar Program, Ricardo Romo, in saying thanks to all for making this program work. I know of nothing we have done over the past five years that has received more broad-based praise. Our efforts in these seminars are making a difference in the lives of students who come to this campus seeking an education. It is a grand thing to behold. Thank you. Cheers for the Holiday Season. Sheldon >----------------------------------< Sheldon Ekland-Olson Executive Vice President and Provost The University of Texas at Austin >----------------------------------< From wheel Tue Dec 8 10:11:48 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: web Content-Length: 254 John, Is there going to be some time this week we can get together and merge your home page with the content I've assembled? I have to give a final from 9 to noon tomorrow, Wed and have a meeting 11 - 12 on Friday, but am otherwise pretty free. Craig From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Tue Dec 8 10:51:51 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: web MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 873 Dr. Wheeler, I have two more finals this week: one onThursday at 7pm and one on Friday at 9am-12pm. After that, I am free! It'd be best if I didn't meet before Thursday because I need to study desparetly, but after 12 on Friday I can meet for however long we need to, because I'll be done for the semester. Let me know if this is ok with you. Thanks. -John Mao -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 10:14 AM Subject: web >John, > >Is there going to be some time this week we can get together >and merge your home page with the content I've assembled? > >I have to give a final from 9 to noon tomorrow, Wed >and have a meeting 11 - 12 on Friday, but am otherwise >pretty free. > >Craig From wheel Tue Dec 8 15:06:02 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: web Content-Length: 61 John, Friday afternoon would be fine. See you then. Craig From m902856@hotmail.com Tue Dec 8 18:01:39 1998 X-Originating-IP: [129.116.78.130] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: Wendorf MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 312 Dr. Wheeler, I dropped off my disk at your office this morning. The fiction is under the file of NabtaFiction I think...microsoft word. when should I come by and pick up the disk? thank you mary ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Tue Dec 8 21:56:23 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Wendorf Content-Length: 241 Mary, I was too frantic writing a final today and other things to read your disk and get it installed, but I have the new disk and will check it tomorrow. In the meantime, check the web page and the class photo. It's pretty neat. Craig From wheel Wed Dec 9 08:40:04 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: story, Content-Length: 67 Michael, Got it. I'll read it today and post it. Thanks, Craig From wheel Wed Dec 9 18:40:05 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: journals, etc Content-Length: 398 I have put your moon journals and research journals on a chair outside my door where you can pick them up. I copied the research journals just to keep a record of the various tidbits we picked up. You can also pick up your disks. I don't want to put those in the hall. I'll be here for the next two days, but then off next week. I'll leave the disks with my secretary, Betty, next door. Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 10:13:19 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: grades Content-Length: 385 Dave, I slipped the envelope with my Freshman Seminar grades under your door in the tower yesterday a little before 5. Would you please confirm that you received them? We are going "release" the web page our class constructed tomorrow. I hope you will pass the URL on to everyone involved with the Freshman Seminar program so they can see what my kids did. It was great fun. Craig From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 10 10:18:50 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: grades Content-Length: 146 Craig, I did receive the grades, and I look forward to your Web page. Thanks. Would you do the seminar again next year? Would love to have you. From wheel Thu Dec 10 10:24:14 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: grades Content-Length: 284 Dave, I got a Faculty Research assignment for next Fall so won't be available for the Freshman Seminar. I might consider it again the year after. One of the web people I have been working with in the department said, "gee, I wish they'd had that program when I went to UT!!" Craig From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 10 16:26:59 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: Malville! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 44 Dr. Wheeler, Wow, that's awesome. Jamin From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:01:32 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 250 Dave, There is lots more polishing we could do on this, but please pass on the URL: http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html to people in the Freshman Seminar program so they can see what my excellent crew did this term. Thanks, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:03:42 1998 To: fowler@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 201 Clara, This is still rudimentary, but please check out http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html to see what my class did. Don't overlook the acknowledgments. Best Holiday Wishes, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:05:13 1998 To: mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 171 Molly, This is still rudimentary, but check out http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html and don't overlook the acknowledgments. Best Holiday Wishes, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:06:11 1998 To: rrr@astro Cc: wheel Subject: Africa Content-Length: 156 Bob, This is still rudimentary and needs both polishing and editing, but here is where we got: http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:08:11 1998 To: chris@astro, elr@astro, fnb@astro, parrot@astro Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 182 Folks, Check this out to see what my Freshman Seminar did this term, http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html Craig ps, it needs more work, but we ran out of time... From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:09:25 1998 To: betty@astro Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 192 Betty, Check out http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html including the acknowledgments. It could stand a lot of polishing, but we did quite a bit, thanks to your help. Craig From shpion@sprynet.com Thu Dec 10 22:19:35 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1427 Craig: You do, indeed, have the correct address! I look forward to seeing the web site. I'm a bit of an amateur enthusiast of astronomy, as well. I used to have a little 3" reflector, but I eventually gave it to a young boy in the neighborhood, who showed some interest in it. I thought I would soon buy a better scope, but I never did. I'm not much on optics and observation, personally, but it's a lot of fun to do, once in a while. I especially enjoyed "sunspot-chasing", casting the sun's image on a piece of paper, following features across the face of the sun over a period of several days. As for archaeoastronomy, the main focus of my interest is to try to understand how the "man-in-the-street" of the ancient Mediter- ranean world perceived the earth and the cosmos, a little different than just studying the ideas of Ptolemy, Aristotle, or Hipparchos. Please keep in touch, Jim -- Jim McWhorter P.O. Box 8059 Austin, TX 78713-8059 eBay user id: shpion@m9.sprynet.com http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/shpion/ e-mail: shpion@sprynet.com Craig Wheeler wrote: > Good morning. > > I'm just following up on our brief conversation about > archeoastronomy this morning at the Post Office. We > are going to "release" this class web site on archaeoastronomy > in Africa tomorrow and I want to make sure I have your > e-mail address correct. > > Best wishes, > > Craig Wheeler From mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Fri Dec 11 08:53:07 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 456 Craig - Thanks for the acknowledgement. What a fascinating process for you and your class to go through together. It looks like it was fun and productive. Will you continue to have students work on it? Molly ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly T. White ' 512-495-4616 Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library ' mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Univ. of Texas at Austin ' From wheel Fri Dec 11 09:36:58 1998 To: mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 197 Molly, there is lots to do both in terms of polishing the web (and editing contributions!) and in the science, I think. There will be a holiday hiatus, and then we'll see, Happy holidays, Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Fri Dec 11 16:14:46 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 620 >Check out > >http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html > >including the acknowledgments. It could stand a lot >of polishing, but we did quite a bit, thanks to your help. ------------ I would like to read some of this, if I ever have a spare moment. The graphics looks good. Appreciate the acknowledgment. B Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Fri Dec 11 17:20:02 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: access Content-Length: 166 John, Sorry I was called out for awhile. I don't know why there should be an access problem. And now it is a bit late to check. Let me see what I can do. Craig From wheel Fri Dec 11 17:42:58 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: link Content-Length: 506 John, you were right, it is an access issue for html. My colleague says the unix command to establish the html download capability is (if I have the whole link right) w3mir -r http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa.web There is some question as to whether the function w3mir is on tycho's disk, so if that does not work then the command /home/alla/pah/big/w3mir -r http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa.web should access the function from another disk and execute it. Let's try that. Craig From shpion@sprynet.com Fri Dec 11 20:41:35 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 946 Craig: I don't know how widely you want this disseminated, or on what basis, and I don't know whether you have considered posting a notice of the site to the HASTRO-L (History of Astronomy) listserve or even whether you are a subscriber to that list. If you are not a subscriber, I will be happy to post such a notice on that list. I took a quick look at the site, and I will try to peruse it more carefully soon. Thanks, -- Jim McWhorter P.O. Box 8059 Austin, TX 78713-8059 eBay user id: shpion@m9.sprynet.com http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/shpion/ e-mail: shpion@sprynet.com Craig Wheeler wrote: > Jim, > > This implicitly addresses some issues of which way > the astronomy culture flowed, north or south across > the Mediterranean. We ran out of time in the term > to do a really polished job, but you can get the idea > from > > http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html > > Best holiday wishes, > > Craig From wheel Sat Dec 12 11:23:19 1998 To: shpion@sprynet.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Length: 361 Jim, We do want to dissiminate this, register it with Yahoo, etc, but we are still working on it and I want to talk to local security experts before we really release it. I'm off on travel for a week so this won't get resolved right away. Thanks for the tip, though, we'll do it, or give you the high sign, and you can spread the word. Best wishes, Craig From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Fri Dec 11 15:51:07 1998 To: "J. C. Wheeler" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE251E.BBD508E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 1260 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE251E.BBD508E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dr. Wheeler, I'm here in my room, and it won't let my send the files over. I'm = wondering if it's access problems. Please advise, Thanks. -John Mao ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE251E.BBD508E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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I'm here in my room, and it won't = let my send=20 the files over.  I'm wondering if it's access problems.  = Please=20 advise,  Thanks.
 
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------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE251E.BBD508E0-- From wheel Sat Dec 12 11:40:18 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: tycho Content-Length: 347 John, I see that africa.web is still empty, so I guess that instruction did not work. If you would like to talk about it, I'll be at home at 329-0730 until about 1:30 when I have to leave for the airport. Otherwise, maybe we can work on it next term, or maybe we can do something from home. I'll be back next Saturday. Happy Holidays! Craig From shpion@sprynet.com Sat Dec 12 11:41:10 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 619 Craig: It shall be so. Have a good trip. -- Jim McWhorter P.O. Box 8059 Austin, TX 78713-8059 eBay user id: shpion@m9.sprynet.com http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/shpion/ e-mail: shpion@sprynet.com Craig Wheeler wrote: > Jim, > > We do want to dissiminate this, register it with Yahoo, etc, but > we are still working on it and I want to talk to local security > experts before we really release it. > > I'm off on travel for a week so this won't get resolved right > away. Thanks for the tip, though, we'll do it, or give you > the high sign, and you can spread the word. > > Best wishes, > > Craig From mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 17 11:18:31 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: fyi Content-Length: 737 Craig - Just had a phone call telling me that the journal Archaeoastronomy published by the Center for Archaeoastronomy at Univ. of MD is moving to UT Press effective this spring. The journal is moving to a home with compatible interests (ie the Maya Project) and they expect to produce the first issue by May/June. This title is at PCL, and was cancelled in 1993. It in classed with anthropology books. I will bring it to the attention of the current anthro bibliographer in PCL. Molly ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly T. White ' 512-495-4616 Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library ' mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Univ. of Texas at Austin ' From wheel Thu Dec 10 10:11:57 1998 To: shpion@sprynet.com Cc: wheel Subject: archaeoastronomy Content-Length: 293 Good morning. I'm just following up on our brief conversation about archeoastronomy this morning at the Post Office. We are going to "release" this class web site on archaeoastronomy in Africa tomorrow and I want to make sure I have your e-mail address correct. Best wishes, Craig Wheeler From wheel Fri Dec 11 09:34:10 1998 To: shpion@sprynet.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Length: 302 Jim, This implicitly addresses some issues of which way the astronomy culture flowed, north or south across the Mediterranean. We ran out of time in the term to do a really polished job, but you can get the idea from http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html Best holiday wishes, Craig From parrot@astro.as.utexas.edu Fri Dec 11 13:09:26 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 724 Really nice, Craig. Sometime I'll have to talk to you about how you went about setting this up. e.g. did you already know how to write web pages, or did Kirsten do it (I read acknowledgements, but couldn't tell if she just got it started) or students. Next time I have to write up a package for a teaching award for you, I can direct the judges to this site as one aspect of your small-teaching work. (By the way, I see that last year the big prizes requested nominations in January, so maybe we're still ok on that.) -John >Folks, > >Check this out to see what my Freshman Seminar did this term, > >http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html > >Craig > >ps, it needs more work, but we ran out of time... From mattbl@mail.utexas.edu Sun Dec 13 03:24:29 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: FS:picture Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 128 Greetings Dr. Wheeler! On the WebPage, Picture section, Mike wasn't named on the list below the picture. Merry Christmas! Mary From mattbl@mail.utexas.edu Sun Dec 13 03:25:28 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Tim's name Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 59 Also, Tim's name was written as Time on the webpage. mary From wheel Thu Dec 17 02:25:27 1998 To: mattbl@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Tim's name Content-Length: 131 Mq Mary Greetins from Pqais Pais Paris where the keyboards are different I will change those errors Happy holidays Craig From wheel Sat Dec 26 17:45:45 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 596 Mary, I hope you had a good Christmas. I was just doing a little polishing on the African web page and ran across several places where you could contribute if you are still interested. We need a summary of the original paper on Namoratunga by Lynch and Robbins, a summary of Lynch's reply to Soper at the end of the Soper article and a discussion of the nature of the Borana calenda and the various attempts to interpret it, concluding with Ruggles. If you are interested in trying any or all of those, let me know. In the mean time , I hope you have a great new year, best wishes, Craig http://members.tripod.com/~redfern_jillian/astro.html From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Nov 16 00:42:10 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: wendorf heaven Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 267 http://www.smu.edu/~anthrop/fwendorf.html this page is Nabta heaven!!! Its even got a portrait of Wendorf himself! Not to mention lots of neat photos of stuff, including the ceremonial cow skeletons....-Tim From wheel Mon Nov 16 11:24:42 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: wow Content-Length: 133 Great, I think I'll ask anyway. I wonder why I could not find them when I looked at the Colorado press office page? Oh, well. Craig From wheel Fri Nov 13 16:57:00 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: writing assignments Content-Length: 1811 I apologize I did not get to this sooner, I had to write and administer an exam in my other course. As I said in class on Thursday, I would like to speed the process of writing summaries and getting material on the web page up a bit, by doing things in smaller pieces, but sooner. Here are some assignments I would like to make. As much as possible, I have tried to make these consonant with the topics on which you have already indicated you would like to work. It would be great if you could write some draft material and mail it to me before next Tuesday's class and also bring a hard copy to class. I would like everyone to read the Soper/Lynch "dialog," but please especially read the Doyle and Wilcox article. By "synopsis" below, I mean a short summary of what the main points of the paper are. This could be just a few paragraphs. Try to put the basic points in your own words. Whatever you write will count toward your "8 pages." After we get this first pass done, we'll take stock of what we need to do next. 1) Synopsis of Lynch and Robbins (1978) - Jim 2) Synopsis of Soper/Lynch- Jamin 3) Synopsis of Doyle and Wilcox - Nic 4) Synopsis of Malville et al (Nabta) Nature paper - Josh 5) Key Bibliography with annotations, a short description of what the paper contains and its relevance - Quoc 6) Summary of the Class - goals, structure, procedures, results - Mary 7) Discussion of Nabta cultural background - Jason 8) Discussion of petroglyphs - Michael 9) Discussion of cultural background of Namoratung'a I, II other Lynch and Robbins papers, etc - Luke 10) Discussion of astronomical issues - Borana calendar, key stars, star systems, Snedegar, precession, Paul paper - Tim 11) Summary comparing and contrasting Nabta and Namoratung'a II - Holly See you Tuesday, Craig From wheel Sat Nov 14 16:58:47 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Wendorf Content-Length: 954 Read that short article I gave you in class by Wendorf, Schild, Applegate, and Gautier! Toward the end he list a batch of references to megaliths and menhirs along the north coast of the Mediterranean (Renfew 1981), a conceivable link to Stonehenge and other European megaliths, and megalithic alignments and stone circles in "Sahalian and sub-Saharan Africa from Ethiopia to Senegal and north to the Maghreb..." being "especially numerous in West Africa where there are literally thousands of tumuli and megaliths" (Martin and Becker 1974, 1984, en francais). He also mentions "two older radiocarbon dates of 7440 BP and 6700 BP associated with megaliths in the Central African Republic," both of which are "rejected as too old." They are comparable to Nabta. I think that little collection hits every one of the allusions to megaliths in the email from Snedegar! We need to chase these references down and summarize them on the web site. Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 17 11:31:18 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: text Content-Length: 561 >Please print a hard copy and send the text to Kristin to >be posted on our web page. > >I need the hard copy by noon. ----------- It didn't decode completely; I printed the entire file & put in your folder. Perhaps Kristin has software that can further decode. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 19:13:15 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 688 that sounds good, I'll be in RLM tomorrow so I'll stop by your office when I'm there. I'll just bring you my rough draft when I'm there. Michael >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:54:30 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: mhyman23@hotmail.com >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > >Michael, > >thanks for the note. I did hand out the chapter by Warner >in Astronomy Before the Telescope where he actually gives >a picture of a petroglyph with a comet or meteor. You >might want to stop by and get a copy of that before you >finish your summar. > >Craig > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 17 19:27:34 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: rough draft Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 458 Dear Dr. Wheeler, Sorry I couldn't make it to class this tuesday. I've had a bad sinus infection for about a week and finally had to go to the doctor today. I will give my rough draft to you Thursday and probably e-mail it to you even sooner. Sometime tomorrow, late afternoon if that's alright. But I will be in class Thursday, regardless of my condition! Again, I apologize for the delay in getting my paper. Josh Britt From gurgi9@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 19:27:36 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.56.95] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Fwd: archeoastronomy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 2770 I thought this might interest you >--- Below this line is a copy of the message. > >Return-Path: >Received: (qmail 321 invoked by uid 0); 18 Nov 1998 00:58:01 -0000 >Message-ID: <19981118005801.320.qmail@hotmail.com> >Received: from 208.24.56.95 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; > Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:58:01 PST >X-Originating-IP: [208.24.56.95] >From: "Ubar Segodivi" >To: wheel@alla.ast.utexas.edu >Subject: Fwd: Re: archeoastronomy >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:58:01 PST > > > >>From sbrandt@anthro.ufl.edu Tue Nov 17 16:38:41 1998 >>Received: from [128.227.73.55] (ppp-01-ts19.nerdc.ufl.edu >[128.227.73.149]) >> by clas.ufl.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1/dna) with ESMTP id TAA20753 >> for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:38:38 -0500 (EST) >>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>X-Sender: sbrandt@anthro.ufl.edu (Unverified) >>Message-Id: >>In-Reply-To: <19981110050909.15259.qmail@hotmail.com> >>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:42:59 -0500 >>To: "Ubar Segodivi" >>From: Steven Brandt >>Subject: Re: archeoastronomy >> >>Nabta Playa continues to be investigated yearly by Dr. Fred Wendorf and >his >>team. As for Namoratunga, you might check with Dr. Peter Rogers at >Rutgers >>who runs the Koobi Fora Field School. He might know what's going on >there. >>You might also check with Dr. Larry Robbins at Michigan State (both are >in >>Anthropology). You can look up their e-addresses on the Web. >> >>Good luck, >> >>Steven Brandt >> >>>Do you or one of your associates know of any visits that have been >made >>>to the Nabta and Namoratunga sites within the past 20 yeats? I find >it >>>odd to think that these sites have gone ignored for so long. >>> >>>-Tim >>>FS Researcher >>>University of Texas at Austin >>> >>>______________________________________________________ >>>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >> >>******************************************************** >>Steven A. Brandt Office: 352/392-4736 >>University of Florida Lab: 352/392-1743 >>Department of Anthropology Dept: 352/392-2031 >>1350 Turlington Hall Fax: 352/392-6929 >>Gainesville, FL 32611-7305 U.S.A. E-mail: sbrandt@anthro.ufl.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 22:12:34 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 297 Craig, I just looked at your office hours on the syllabus and I have a class at that time so if you could leave the article on a chair outside your office I could come get it. Michael ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Wed Nov 18 09:07:02 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: rough draft Content-Length: 185 Josh, Sorry about your condition. I'll look forward to your draft. I did have a handout on Tuesday, remind me to give that to you. I also DID run off with your pen last week. Craig From wheel Wed Nov 18 09:09:15 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Content-Length: 39 I will leave the stuff outside. Craig From wheel Thu Nov 19 10:05:43 1998 To: gurgi9@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Fwd: archeoastronomy Content-Length: 124 Tim, Why don't you try to get in touch with: Dr. Peter Rogers at >Rutgers >>who runs the Koobi Fora Field School. Craig From wheel Thu Nov 19 10:12:13 1998 To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: FW: jpg Content-Length: 430 Kristin, I've lost track since Betty assigned that name and its greek, or Swahili, to me. I guess I'll have to look at it. If it is a bunch of low black rocks in front of a scrub bush, its Africa. Just to be precise, the categories are not Egypt and Africa, but Nabta and Nomoratunga. We are a little slow in getting the class to integrate, but I'll stop on to chat today before class if I can (late morning). Thanks, Craig From Gurgi9@aol.com Thu Nov 19 13:36:50 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Links Page Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 631 go here: Links Page Its the links page ive created for the web page. its still being created... the final will have a lot more links, but the basic format is down now... it takes only a few more minutes to add in more links, so its basically done except for appearance changes... i stuck it in the directoty with my web page in it.... well we can put this in the web page, underlined, as a clickable link... Wonder What Ancient South Africans Thought About The Stars? im preparing my writing topic on its own page as a resource, that i can stick up and we can link to.... From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Fri Nov 20 08:35:34 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Provost Ekland-Olson's lecture Content-Length: 236 Craig, there is no form--normally there is blue slip, but since the packets are not being picked up in the Student Union, Measurements and Evaluations did not send out the blue form. Just have the student ask for your packet. Thanks. From wheel Thu Nov 5 12:13:01 1998 To: addison@astro Cc: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: photo credits Content-Length: 697 Doug, in the July/August issue of StarDate you folks did an article on ancient megaliths in Egypt, a site called Nabta. My freshman seminar class is building a web site on Ancient Astronomy in Africa (http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/fall98/ wheelerfs301.html) and I got the scanned photos from that article from Tim Jones. I am wondering whether it is legal for us to post them (as I have) on a publically accessible web site. Your credits say "photos courtesy of the Combined Prehistoric Expedition." What rights do you have? Are these photos in any sense in the public domain? What should we do to get permission to use them on our web site. Thanks for any insight. Craig From wheel Tue Nov 10 14:30:42 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Doyle Content-Length: 227 Jamin, If you can contact Doyle, ask him whether they investigated any epochs other than 300 BC and, if so, what uncertainty they can put on that number in analogy to the constraints he put on the sighting uncertainty. Craig From wheel Sun Nov 22 11:25:20 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: my paper Content-Length: 146 got it, thanks, Do you have in mind what you want to do to round out your writing assignments. You probably need another 5 pages or so. Craig From wheel Sun Nov 22 11:28:51 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: scratch that. Content-Length: 103 The placement was right, but the text was an old draft. I'll forward the new one when I get it. Craig From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Sun Nov 22 02:48:03 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: man, I forgot Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 182 Dr. Wheeler, this is josh. I sent you my old draft! Not my new one. I'll send you my revised version tomorrow (Sunday). Sorry about the confusion. -joshua From wheel Sun Nov 15 21:21:49 1998 To: kristin Cc: wheel Subject: files for web page Content-Length: 267 Kristin Would you please put the next two files as email archive on our web site. One is mail within out class (mail.class) and one is our mail to outside people and their replies (mail.outside). I'll put them in the next two mails for convenience. Thanks, Craig From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 14:53:39 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 353 Craig, Sorry I wasn't in class again. I wanted to let you know that I could not find Lynch's thesis for the life of me. I searched the net and several libraries. Later this evening I will email you my summary of the petroglyphs. Michael ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Tue Nov 17 15:55:00 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Content-Length: 265 Michael, thanks for the note. I did hand out the chapter by Warner in Astronomy Before the Telescope where he actually gives a picture of a petroglyph with a comet or meteor. You might want to stop by and get a copy of that before you finish your summar. Craig From wheel Thu Nov 19 14:04:38 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Provost Ekland-Olson's lecture Content-Length: 283 Dave, I was just looking for the forms I need to send with a student to get the class evaluation materials. I was sure I had seen them, but could not find any such thing. Should I have them? Do I need them? Can I just send a student to the Office of the Provost? Thanks, Craig From wheel Thu Nov 19 14:08:40 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: links Content-Length: 997 Kristin, See you you can do a link to this set of links. That would mean we would not have to copy all of them, although I suppose that would be easy to do. Thanks, Craig > From Gurgi9@aol.com Thu Nov 19 13:36:50 1998 > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Subject: Re: Links Page > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > go here: > Links Page > Its the links page ive created for the web page. its still being created... > the final will have a lot more links, but the basic format is down now... it > takes only a few more minutes to add in more links, so its basically done > except for appearance changes... > > i stuck it in the directoty with my web page in it.... > > well we can put this in the web page, underlined, as a clickable link... > Wonder What Ancient South Africans Thought About The Stars? > im preparing my writing topic on its own page as a resource, that i can stick > up and we can link to.... > From wheel Mon Nov 23 11:12:37 1998 To: lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: submission Content-Length: 95 Luke, We could not read that Namoratunga document you submitted. What format was that? Craig From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Mon Nov 23 11:15:43 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: submission Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 68 it was word97 if you want i can send it in ascii (pure text) luke From wheel Mon Nov 23 11:21:48 1998 To: lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: never mind Content-Length: 18 We got it. Craig From wheel Mon Nov 23 11:45:50 1998 To: lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: other version Content-Length: 69 Thanks, I stored the ASCII and Kristin did handle the word97. Craig From wheel Mon Nov 23 16:20:15 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: starry nights Content-Length: 291 Hi, I have arranged for Lara Cross to bring our computer projection system and the Starry Night planetarium program to class tomorrow, so we can explore some of the stars of Namoratung'a and the Borana calendar. I learned a few things just playing with the system, so check it out. Craig From wheel Mon Nov 23 16:34:58 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: wheel Subject: Starry Africa Content-Length: 596 Lara, It occurred to me that another aspect of the African calendar we are studying is that the months are set by the rising of the new Moon in conjunction with various key stars and clusters. The text reads "each star or constellation appears successively in conjunction with the new moon in the order Triangulum, Pleiades, Aldebaran, Bellatrix, Central Orion, Saiph, and Sirius. Only Triangulum is utilized in the second half of the year beginning when Triangulum rises in conjunction with a full Moon." It would be neat to illustrate that if we can, now and in 300 BC. Thanks, Craig From wheel Mon Nov 23 16:58:24 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: African Moon Content-Length: 780 Lara, To be a bit more specific, the Borana lunar calendar seems to be based on the idea that the months are established by when the new Moon rises at the same declination as the various key stars, etc. That, in turn, is supposed to only make sense if we are talking 300 BC, independent of the stone alignments. That would be especially important to try to illustrate. That is, to check the correspondence of subsequent new Moon risings in declination with the various stars now and in 300 BC. Here is the relevant quote (from Ruggles: Four Approaches to the Borana Calendar) "'In six out of the twelve lunar months the seven constellations appear successively in conjunction with the Moon' refers to successive nightly observations within a month." Thanks again, Craig From wheel Tue Nov 24 10:48:43 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: contribution Content-Length: 2333 Kristin, This text should be at the top of the web page and links from its references to Nabta and Namoratunga could serve as the links to those sections of the web page. Thanks, Craig Nabta and Namoratunga II are both megalithici sites in Africa, and are thought to be astronomically related. Both could also be ceremonial sites. At both sites the rocks are tilted unlike many megaliths such as Stonehenge, where the rocks are perpendicular to the ground. This information suggests that the people who built Namoratunga II could somehow be connected to the people who built Nabta thousands of years earlier. Many differences between Nabta and Namoratunga II weaken the suggestion that the two could be connected. Nabta has been excavated and studied thoroughly, and radio carbon dated to have been built around 6000 B.C. Namoratunga II was not excavated. It was assumed to have been built around 300 B.C. because that was the radio carbon date on a related site. Nabta is reasonably well established to be astronomically related, with orientations north/south and with the summer solstice. There has been much discussion about whether Namoratunga II's astronomical alignments are correct or not, although the preponderance of evidence seems to be that it is. Nabta and Namoratunga II are also different because the Nabta calendar deals with alignments with the Sun, and Namoratunga II aligns with the stars. Nabta was a burial site. The bones of cows were found there. Namoratunga I was a burial site, but bones have not been found at Namoratunga II. Many differences also exist in the way the two megaliths were built. Nabta consists of several sites spread out over approximately one square mile. Namoratunga has three sites spread out over a greater area. Nabta sites are circular, but Namoratunga II is more linear. The rocks themselves are also different. The rocks at Nabta are much bigger than the rocks at Namoratunga II, which are only about one meter high, or less. Nabta's rocks are unshaped, but the rocks at Namoratunga II have been shaped to have four flat sides and a slanted top. The rocks at Namoratunga II also have petroglyphs on them and the rocks at Nabta do not. Many pieces of pottery that had symbols on them were found at Nabta, but no pottery was found at Namoratunga II. From wheel Tue Nov 24 10:50:06 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: last paragraph Content-Length: 472 Kristin, please add this text as a final paragraph to that I just sent. thanks, Craig It can be theorized that the same line of people who built Nabta could have migrated south over the thousands of years that passed between the construction of the two megaliths, and built Namoratunga II. Cultural changes over the large time span could account for the diferences between the two megaliths. Not enough evidence exists to come to a conclusion. From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 24 20:35:56 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: rocks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 571 Craig, You already read my original summary so I only sent you my additions that came from the Warner article and Nabta information. Michael >Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:22:15 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: mhyman23@hotmail.com >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu >Subject: rocks > >Michael, > >I got your supplement, but that is all I got. Did you send >something else? > >Thanks and happy thanksgiving to you, too. > >Craig > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From mhyman23@hotmail.com Wed Nov 25 15:51:58 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: rocks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 398 no problem, I'll get it to you in the next couple of days. >Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 21:37:11 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: mhyman23@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: rocks > >Michael, > >Okay, I just wanted the whole thing to post on the web page. > >Craig > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From m902856@hotmail.com Mon Nov 30 11:16:29 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.143] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Fwd: Re: Ancient African Astronomy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1273 >From marcus@rice.edu Mon Nov 30 07:27:04 1998 >Received: from [128.42.176.219] (swb5-asyn-15.rice.edu [128.42.176.218]) > by moe.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA09548 > for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:26:30 -0600 (CST) >X-Sender: marcus@ruf.rice.edu >Message-Id: >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:45:44 -0600 >To: "Mary Tran" >From: marcus@rice.edu (George Marcus) >Subject: Re: Ancient African Astronomy > > >Dear Mary Tran, > > You might try Rod or Susan McIntosh in our department--they are our >archaeologists and Africanists. > > George Marcus > > > Dr. Wheeler, I already wrote to the two people mentioned above, but as of yet, I have not received a reply. I will contact you as soon as it comes in. Also, I was thinking that those of us who wanted to finish the project could meet on the day we were supposed to have our final, and just work on finalizing the webpage and project. I'd be willing to stay and work on it. Mary ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Mon Nov 30 11:26:19 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Ancient African Astronomy Content-Length: 182 Mary, Thanks for volunteering. I was wondering what we would do if we did not quite finish everything we would like on the page. Let's see where we get in the next week. Craig h From gurgi9@hotmail.com Sun Nov 29 21:51:38 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.56.95] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: star data page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 341 well i completed my information from my asigned article, and ive posted it on the web at http://members.aol.com/gurgi9/stardata.html do you like it? then there is the links page that i am still adding to as i find links. -Tim ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Mon Nov 30 23:56:35 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: I was wondering Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 669 Dr. Wheeler, this is Josh again. For my last 5 pages of writing, I've been working on my original idea: a fun bit o' fiction about the original inhabitants of Nabta. It deals with the different functions of the megaliths there, as well as how they were relevant to the nomadic people's lives. I'm about halfway finished, and I have completely forgotten when you expected these final drafts to be due. I was wondering if it would be o.k. for me to turn my paper in on wednesday? If you get this before class tomorrow, and you have a minute, could you send me an e-mail with an answer on whether or not this is o.k.? I appreciate it. -joshua From wheel Tue Dec 1 09:26:27 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: I was wondering Content-Length: 250 Josh, I would like to have all the contributions by Thursday's class at the latest. It will still take some time to get them assembled on the web site. That is my major concern, how complete we can make the site before the end of the term. Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 10:40:28 1998 To: cornell@astro, kristin@astro, lcross@astro Cc: wheel Subject: tycho web page Content-Length: 145 Mark, Lara, Kristin, The material for this class web page will be put in the directory home/tycho/wheel/public_html/africa Thanks, Craig From sandi@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Dec 1 11:20:14 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: digital camera Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 345 Craig, There are no UT observers or staff traveling today or tomorrow that can bring the camera in in time for you to have it for classes on Thursday. Sandi -- Sandi Preston Director, Public Information Programs McDonald Observatory 2609 University Room 3.116 Austin TX 78712 512 475 6765 voice mail 512 471 5060 fax http://stardate.utexas.edu From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Dec 1 11:45:47 1998 Subject: Re: tycho web page To: Craig Wheeler , cornell@astro.as.utexas.edu, lcross@astro.as.utexas.edu CC: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 623 Craig, I transferred all the web page files to the directory you listed below. The link for the page is still active on hyperion. We can update that when the site from tycho is ready to go. Thanks, Kristin c: Cornell, Cross ---------- >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: cornell@astro.as.utexas.edu, kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu, lcross@astro.as.utexas.edu >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu >Subject: tycho web page >Date: Tue, Dec 1, 1998, 10:40 AM > >Mark, Lara, Kristin, > >The material for this class web page will be put in the directory > >home/tycho/wheel/public_html/africa > >Thanks, > >Craig > From wheel Tue Dec 1 14:02:32 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 99 Lara, The site for those jpegs is home/tycho/wheel/public_html/africa Thanks, Craig From wilhelm@puck.as.utexas.edu Tue Dec 1 15:21:27 1998 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wilhelm@puck.as.utexas.edu Subject: files Content-Length: 136 Craig, I have changed the permissions of the files and also made John Mao a group member so he should have write permission now. ROn From wheel Tue Dec 1 15:28:29 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 439 John, It turns out when the files were transferred they still had kristin as owner and I have to get the permissions changed. In the meantime, I changed the master hmtl document to "africa.html" and did a little playing around with that. So africa.html is now the de facto draft master web page. We may change it completely before we are through, including incorporating the material you gave us, but this has a place to start. Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 16:27:09 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: web Content-Length: 191 Kristin, I just went through the files and noticed that the draft web page we got on disk from John Mao was not there. I still have that disk, but just wondered what the status was. Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 17:11:26 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: new web address Content-Length: 195 I changed the name of the basic opening web page. Log into: http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html I fiddled with it a little today. John and I will work on it tomorrow. Craig From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Tue Dec 1 18:58:08 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: new web address MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 1023 Dr. Wheeler, I can't seem to find my writing of Nabta on the web site you just sent. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 5:14 PM Subject: new web address >I changed the name of the basic opening web page. Log into: > >http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html > >I fiddled with it a little today. John and I will work on >it tomorrow. > >Craig > From wheel Tue Dec 1 21:21:52 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: new web address Content-Length: 285 Jason, your file is now in the shape of one manuscript about five lines long and 40 feet wide. I have no idea what is wrong with it. I'll try to fiddle with it, but we may have to have you submit it again, or give it to me on a disk or something. It's the file "nabta.doc." Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 22:00:03 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 198 Kristin, It occurs to me that it would really be handy to get your version of John Mao's handiwork because it was a pc doc and I don't have the software to read it again on my Mac. Thanks, Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 22:24:22 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: the finale Content-Length: 1486 Folks, Here is my understanding of what people have committed to do to finish up the writing assignments and provide web content. I need this by Thursday, or Friday at the latest: Michael - petroglyphs plus another 5 pages of material. Josh - synopsis of Malville (I don't think I have this yet) and a 5 page Nabta fiction story. Jason - 3 page summary of Nabta culture (that I still need to unscramble) and a 5 page story. Nic - two page summary of Doyle and Wilcox and a story Luke - 3 page Namoratunga summary done plus some images. Will write something on the Borana calendar. Jamin - 3 page summary of Soper artical (I need the electronic version), perhaps something on the pottery of Namoratunga and maybe a piece of science fiction. John - web master, piece on the Dogon Mary - mission statement summarizing the goals of the class and how we went about our task and a piece of Nabta fiction. Holly - drawings of Nabta at summer solstice and the Borana symbols as a petroglyph, a two page summary comparing and contrasting Nabta and Namoratunga, a piece on Astronomy before the Telescope. Tim - links page (one page), summary of the significance of the stars in modern (and presumably ancient) cultures, (two pages). The latter to be extended. Maybe some music and graphics. Quoc - annotated reference list plus ?? Jim - summary of Lynch and Robbins plus ?? Check the web page, it is shaping up... Is anyone going to write any fiction about Namoratunga? Craig From addison@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 10 10:50:22 1998 Subject: Nabta images To: "Craig Wheeler" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Length: 1390 Craig, The large photo on p. 16 and the three photos on pp. 18-19 were taken by Kim Malville and were sent to me by Ken Abbott (abbottk@spot.colorado.edu) at the CU public relations department. You may want to drop him a note to let him know how you plan to use the images. I'm sure there will be no problem. I think the small image on p. 16 and the chart on p.19 came from Fred Wendorf through Damond. Tim made some modifications to the chart, though. Again, you may want to give Wendorf a courtesy call. The map is from the PCL map collection, with location information supplied by Wendorf through his article in Nature. We used the blanket credit "Combined Prehistoric Expedition" for simplicity, and no one seemed to have a problem with it. Let me know if you have other questions. And now that I have your attention... Can I ask you to give some more thought to supplying an article for the May/June 1999 AstroPrimer column? Frank is initiating this new column with his article "How Stars Work" in the March/April issue. Damond and I would like to make stars the focus for the 1999 installments of "AstroPrimer" and would like you, Tom, Greg Shields, and/or others to write short (<1000 words) articles explaining your areas of specialty. Thanks. Doug -------- Doug Addison - StarDate magazine - StarDate Online 512-475-6763 - http://stardate.utexas.edu From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 24 17:19:19 1998 X-Sender: betty@astro.as.utexas.edu (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: scans Content-Length: 537 C. I tried the color drawing but even with cropping, the computer doesn't have enough disk space -- I need to consult with Kristin about that. She told me she doesn't have time until Monday to work with it anyway, so we'll do it then. B. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Tue Nov 24 17:22:17 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: rocks Content-Length: 137 Michael, I got your supplement, but that is all I got. Did you send something else? Thanks and happy thanksgiving to you, too. Craig From wheel Wed Nov 25 16:10:08 1998 To: cornell@astro Cc: wheel Subject: access Content-Length: 512 Mark, Kristin has been a great help in getting a proto-type web page up and running for my Freshman Seminar class, but to work on it further it would be convenient (and get Kristin out of the loop) if I could have access to the server. I would also like to get access for one of my students to be the key person to work on the page over the next couple weeks. He is John Mao. site is: http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/fall98/wheelerfs301.html Can you set this up for me, please? Thanks, Craig From wheel Wed Nov 25 16:11:57 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: class web site Content-Length: 261 John, I turned over your web work to Kristin Logan and she was very impressed. She independently suggested that you get access to the server. I have asked our System Manager for that access for you and me. I'll get you the password, etc when I hear. Craig From cornell@puck.as.utexas.edu Thu Nov 26 20:59:27 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Cc: cornell@puck.as.utexas.edu, kristin@astro Subject: Re: access Content-Length: 1309 Hi Craig, > From wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Wed Nov 25 16:11:47 1998 > Subject: access > > Mark, > > Kristin has been a great help in getting a proto-type web page up and > running for my Freshman Seminar class, but to work on it further it would > be convenient (and get Kristin out of the loop) if I could have access to > the server. I would also like to get access for one of my students to be > the key person to work on the page over the next couple weeks. He is > John Mao. > > site is: http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/fall98/wheelerfs301.html > > Can you set this up for me, please? > > Thanks, > Craig The department web server is a secure system and I would strongly prefer to restrict access to it. For long term development of your course, it seems to me to be a better idea to install the course web materials on one of your own workstations already running a web server, such as tycho. Or we could install a web server on another of your machines. We would put the appropriate links on the department server so this would be transparent to the users of the site. This has the advantage that you can modify your course any way you like without having to wait on us for updates, etc. Let me know what machine you'd like this to live on, and I'll set it up. Thanks, Mark From wheel Mon Nov 30 11:14:12 1998 To: gurgi9@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: star data page Content-Length: 175 Tim, Thanks, I'll check it out. I also wanted to remind you to pick up the class evaluation materials in the Vice-Provosts office and bring them to class tomorrow. Craig From wheel Mon Nov 30 18:19:01 1998 To: kristin@astro Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 456 Kristin, Mark did not want to let an undergrad get access to the secure web server, so I'm going to move the Afro web page to tycho. I asked Ron Wilhelm to get you an account. Could you please follow up on that and transfer the pages to tycho (home/tycho/wheel/public_html) so that my students and I can get access to the source code. I need this done pretty quickly since we need to work on the page this week, the last week of classes. Thanks, Craig From wheel Mon Nov 30 21:47:39 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: web Content-Length: 374 Tim, That star summary is nice. You should put the complete reference to the article by Snedegar. You might change the background. I found that I could not print your document from the screen. It just came out blank. Also, although the background looks nice on your links page, I found that the clicked-on links that turned blue were hard to read. Good work, Craig From wheel Mon Nov 30 21:49:29 1998 To: wilhelm@astro Cc: wheel Subject: newguy Content-Length: 81 Ron, I also need a tych account for an undergraduate, John Mao. Thanks, Craig From wheel Tue Dec 1 22:56:37 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: text Content-Length: 372 Jason, One problem (at least) is that the text you submitted seems to have control characters (like ^M) embedded in it throughout. We may just have to get your material straight off a disk unless you can save it in straight ascii text some way and mail it. I'll wrestle with this a little more at work tomorrow, but it is really choking my editor to look at it. Craig From Gurgi9@aol.com Wed Dec 2 01:22:35 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: actually Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 190 actually, since you might not have photoshop5.0, and you need that in order to view the pictures, i posted the big one at: http://members.aol.com/gurgi9/intro.html quite a beauty, isnt she! From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 08:22:04 1998 Subject: Re: web page To: Craig Wheeler Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 479 Hi Craig, No problem. I will need to get the disk from you as I did not copy the documents to my hard drive. -Kristin ---------- >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu >Subject: web page >Date: Tue, Dec 1, 1998, 10:00 PM > >Kristin, > >It occurs to me that it would really be handy to get your version >of >John Mao's handiwork because it was a pc doc and I don't have >the software to read it again on my Mac. > >Thanks, > >Craig > From wheel Wed Dec 2 09:08:34 1998 To: betty@astro Cc: wheel Subject: translate Content-Length: 179 Betty, We are still trying to get a decent text from this student. Could you please try again to see if you can decode this? There may be two versions attached. Thanks, Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 11:44:58 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: translate Content-Length: 518 >Betty, > >We are still trying to get a decent text from this student. >Could you please try again to see if you can decode this? > >There may be two versions attached. ----------- Go ahead & mail that to me & I'll try. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Wed Dec 2 12:30:41 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: luke images Content-Length: 194 John, Of course I recalled that I had my notebook in my pack as soon as you left. Luke's address with the images he has created is: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/7221/africa.htm Craig From wheel Wed Dec 2 13:46:25 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: wheel Subject: gifs Content-Length: 138 Lara, The gifs look great! this is still under construction, but check out http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html Craig From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 13:58:57 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: grade sheets Content-Length: 447 Dear FS instructor: I have the grade sheets for your freshman seminar and will be distributing all the sheets in the morning--I delivered a few earlier today but must teach this afternoon. You will need to return the filled-in grade sheet to me so that I can keep track of all the sheets and turn them in to the Office of the Registrar. If you have not yet had your seminar evaluate your course, the forms are in Main 201 with the receptionist. From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 14:29:04 1998 X-Sender: betty@astro.as.utexas.edu (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: files Content-Length: 367 What you sent are 2 Photoshop images. Maybe you should look at this. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 16:48:18 1998 Subject: latest image To: Craig Wheeler Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 187 Hi Craig, I put the image that I got today on tycho. It's titled "stone.drwg.jpg". I'm pretty sure that's the one you showed me this afternoon, but if not, let me know. Thanks, Kristin From wheel Wed Dec 2 17:05:01 1998 To: jspyromi@eso.org Cc: wheel Subject: mansscript Content-Length: 129 Jason, Send that document as an attachment directly to my secretary betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Let's try that, Thanks, Craig From wheel Wed Dec 2 18:40:25 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: mansuscript Content-Length: 174 Jason, I'm not sure I did not screw up my mail. Can you send your contribution directly to my secretary as a word attachment to: betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Thanks, Craig From wheel Wed Dec 2 18:41:48 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: ms Content-Length: 51 Josh, I got that and have incorporated it. Craig From wheel Wed Dec 2 18:57:37 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 209 Check it out, it's coming along. John is working on the format while I'm trying to flesh out the links. We need CONTENT! And I need Fred Wendorf's email address which I cannot seem to find. Thanks, Craig From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 20:02:56 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: web page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 1106 Professor Wheeler, I thought I mentioned Fred Wendor's email address to you before. Just in case, here it is. Fred Wendorf fwendorf@mail.smu.edu -John Mao -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 7:00 PM Subject: web page >Check it out, it's coming along. John is working on the format >while I'm trying to flesh out the links. We need CONTENT! > >And I need Fred Wendorf's email address which I cannot seem to >find. > >Thanks, > >Craig From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Wed Dec 2 21:19:26 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: web page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 1750 Ok, I think that Professor Wheeler and I figured out a good idea of approaching these last few days in working on the web page. He will be maintaining and updating constantly the web page at http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html I have been working here in my small Jester room on the new web layout. You're probably wondering how it's coming along, so I've decided to open up my computer entirely to you all. The new layout and a lot of what's on the current africa website has been migrated over to this new layout. i haven't gotten a chance to finish it all yet, but I hope to do so tomorrow, after my PHL313K final! For now, it's there so, browse on over to: http://129.116.34.172/index.htm and take a look around. Please bring your comments tomorrow to class or email me. Thanks, John Mao -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 7:00 PM Subject: web page >Check it out, it's coming along. John is working on the format >while I'm trying to flesh out the links. We need CONTENT! > >And I need Fred Wendorf's email address which I cannot seem to >find. > >Thanks, > >Craig From jspyromi@eso.org Wed Dec 2 22:54:44 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: mansscript Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 627 Dear Graig I got this from you. Unless there is some time warp I have no idea what you are refering too. Since I got the message from you just to let you know that VLT is going well. We are in the final stages of the first commissioning run of the infrared imager/spectrograph and have not as yet had an image above 0.5 arcseconds. Some nice data on the eso web site http://www.eso.org let me know what the message was about anyway. best wishes Jason Craig Wheeler wrote: > Jason, > > Send that document as an attachment directly to my secretary > > betty@astro.as.utexas.edu > > Let's try that, > > Thanks, > > Craig From Gurgi9@aol.com Thu Dec 3 01:36:22 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: new stuff Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 694 well i made an awesome web page now thats 6 pages on my browser... plus i made two pix that you can see at members.aol.com/gurgi9/info.html. the URL of my grand page is members.aol.com/gurgi9/stardata.html. so how is that? for my big page i had to create some further graphics with photoshop and I even went through for each star group and located pictures or diagrams for them. anyway... oh, also, for my AST104 seminar class im supposed to talk with an astronomy faculty member for a bit and then i need you to send an email to Dr. Shields telling him that you did indeed talk to me. the idea of it is that i get to know a faculty member a litle better. do you think we could do that? From wheel Thu Dec 3 09:01:41 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: web page Content-Length: 62 I'm sure you did, I just could not find it last night. Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 09:15:12 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Jason Clendenen" Subject: Re: Web page stuff Cc: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Content-Length: 1137 > Dear Betty, I am a student of Dr. Wheeler's. I have two >files for you to put on the web page for his freshman seminar. Thank >you, Jason Clendenen >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Circle of stones.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00023EFF) >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:nabta2.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00023F00) ---------------- Jason, what application & version of that application did you use to create these files? There are certain characters that aren't converted by my MS Word v.6 -- for example the quotes and dashes (I think) are replaced by random characters. I can fix those, but there is indecipherable matter at the top & bottom of both files. In Circle of Stones, is this the last sentence? -- The Star People had aided them once again. If so, I'll just delete all the extraneous matter & it should be ok. Betty Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Thu Dec 3 09:25:36 1998 To: qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Annotations Content-Length: 131 Quoc, Would you also send that document as an attachment directly to my secretary at: betty@astro.as.utexas.edu? Thanks, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 3 13:57:56 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: photo Content-Length: 339 Mary, I took a few class photos today that I will try to scan and put on the web site. It is not too late to include you, thanks to the magic of photoshop. If you stop by today or tomorrow (with your disk of contributions if that is convenient) I could take a couple of you so we could see what we can do to merge them. Thanks, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 3 14:01:20 1998 To: fender@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: disk Content-Length: 132 Nic, I think I located a fellow with a 5 1/2 inch floppy, but It might be easier if you just stop by and get a 3 inch disk. Craig From wheel Thu Dec 3 14:16:18 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: The End Content-Length: 486 Folks, I did not make a big thing of it in the midst of having fun with the web page, but today was the last class. There is no final and we won't formally meet during the scheduled final spot. The defacto final is getting the web page complete. I just noticed that when I edited my email list at midterm, I managed to edit Nic out, so he has been missing our mail. If you have an alias for the class, please include fender@mail.utexas.edu Thanks for all your good work! Craig From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 15:11:47 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: The End MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 1397 Thanks Dr. Wheeler for the fun class. I might try to take an astronomy class in a year or two, so maybe I'll see you then. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; fender@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 2:16 PM Subject: The End >Folks, > >I did not make a big thing of it in the midst of having fun >with the web page, but today was the last class. There >is no final and we won't formally meet during the scheduled >final spot. > >The defacto final is getting the web page complete. > >I just noticed that when I edited my email list at midterm, >I managed to edit Nic out, so he has been missing our mail. >If you have an alias for the class, please include > >fender@mail.utexas.edu > > >Thanks for all your good work! > >Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 16:24:57 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: office 98 Content-Length: 586 The Nguyen file : I decoded it & opened with Word v6, getting the garbage top & bottom. Sent the raw file to Kristin, she decoded it & opened with Office 98 and got the perfect paper now in your folder. Kristin will install the above application for me as soon as she gets a chance. B. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Thu Dec 3 16:42:20 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: success Content-Length: 156 Jason, I found a grad student with a PC and we read your files and transferred them to my workstation. Netscape reads them fine, so we've done it. Craig From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 17:41:08 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: success MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 528 Good, Let me know if you need anything else. Jason ps - I just finished your book. Good job - I liked it. -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 4:45 PM Subject: success >Jason, > >I found a grad student with a PC and we read your files and >transferred them to my workstation. Netscape reads them >fine, so we've done it. > >Craig From fender@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 3 17:52:40 1998 X-Sender: fender@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Story Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 271 Your probably not up at the office this late but I'm here at school with my story and 5.5 floppy disk. So, if your in I'll stop by your office and drop it off. If not I can drop it off tomorrow some time between 3 and 4. E-mail me if your in when you get this. Nic From wheel Thu Dec 3 21:19:46 1998 To: fender@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Story Content-Length: 179 Nic, I was there then (until 7:30 actually, grading stuff for my other class) but not checking email. I have a meeting tomorrow from 3 to 3:30 but will be in after that, Craig From m902856@hotmail.com Fri Dec 4 03:08:50 1998 X-Originating-IP: [129.116.78.130] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: photo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1434 Dr. Wheeler, I am so sorry once again for missing class...and the last day no less! I was working on an assignment til about 6:30am last night, and I didn't wake up until 1pm. augh!!! I missed my classes and everything! Well, I'm going to stop by and drop off my assignments tomorrow (friday). If you're not there then I'll just drop off the paperwork/disk and see you at another time for the picture. About the timeline...I don't know of the dates that we received certain articles and written work, so I'm not so sure the timeline would be worth much. Did you want all of the e-mails accounted for in it too? If you still wish for me to do the timeline, then I will do it after my finals on friday of next week. Right now, I really don't have that much time to go through all of those e-mails and figure things out. Also, after we turn everything in, is there still a way that we could get our books and disks back? thank you! mary tran...AAA > >Mary, > >I took a few class photos today that I will try to scan and put >on the web site. It is not too late to include you, thanks >to the magic of photoshop. > >If you stop by today or tomorrow (with your disk of contributions >if that is convenient) I could take a couple of you so we >could see what we can do to merge them. > >Thanks, > >Craig ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Fri Dec 4 09:05:14 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: office 98 Content-Length: 606 >Betty, > >Thanks a lot. I need an html version of that manuscript if >we can generate it. Or plain text in an electronic version >I can read if possible. ----------------- I can send the file back again to Kristin for the html or I can save the file in text only and mail it to you. Which do you prefer? Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Fri Dec 4 11:14:20 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: photo Content-Length: 270 Mary, I would say don't worry about a detailed time line at this point. A basic narrative of goals and methods would be fine. I have kept a lot of the email and will post that. I'm off for lunch, but will be around all afternoon, with a meeting from 3 to 3:30, Craig From m902856@hotmail.com Fri Dec 4 11:51:49 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.129] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: photo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 1206 Dr. Wheeler I have a doctor's appointment, so I should be there sometime between 3:30 and 5 o'clock. If you can't be there then please page me at 206-9586 and leave your number and *12 after the beep. If I miss you by then, I have my picture on the disk as well. Thank you! mary >From wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Fri Dec 04 09:16:38 1998 >Received: from [128.83.129.243] by hotmail.com (1.0) with SMTP id MHotMail30902445847035065324992152956403336330; Fri Dec 04 09:16:38 1998 >Received: by alla.as.utexas.edu (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) > id LAA03288; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 11:12:22 -0600 (CST) >Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 11:12:22 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >Message-Id: <199812041712.LAA03288@alla.as.utexas.edu> >To: m902856@hotmail.com >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu >Subject: Re: photo > >Mary, > >I would say don't worry about a detailed time line at this point. >A basic narrative of goals and methods would be fine. I have >kept a lot of the email and will post that. > >I'm off for lunch, but will be around all afternoon, with >a meeting from 3 to 3:30, > >Craig ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu Fri Dec 4 14:25:06 1998 X-Sender: qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: moon journal and research journal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 291 Dr. Wheeler, I forgot all about the journals yesterday in class. Is it still possible for me to turn in the journals? If so(please say yes!! It's 30%!!), I would like to know when I can meet with you in order to turn these in. I'm sorry for any inconvienence this may cause. Quoc Nguyen From wheel Fri Dec 4 16:45:11 1998 To: qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: moon journal and research journal Content-Length: 115 Quoc, Drop those by my office any time before next Tuesday. No panic, but the sooner the better. Thanks, Craig From wheel Fri Dec 4 16:46:25 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: moon journals and research notebooks Content-Length: 156 If you did not turn in your moon journals and research notes on Thursday, slip them under my door (RLM 17.230) over the weekend if you can. Thanks, Craig From mhyman23@hotmail.com Fri Dec 4 21:14:07 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 412 Craig, I've been having trouble with my last five pages and will get them to you this weekend so they can go on the page. I have two third hour activities to add to the list. A special viewing of a Hindi film, and Belly dancing at the UGL. I might have already recorded the Hindi Film. Michael ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Sat Dec 5 17:12:44 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Content-Length: 599 Okay, Thanks, Craig > From mhyman23@hotmail.com Fri Dec 4 21:14:07 1998 > X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] > To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Craig, > I've been having trouble with my last five pages and will get them to > you this weekend so they can go on the page. I have two third hour > activities to add to the list. A special viewing of a Hindi film, and > Belly dancing at the UGL. I might have already recorded the Hindi Film. > Michael > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > From wheel Sun Dec 6 10:44:51 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: journals Content-Length: 113 You can pick up your moon journals and research journals from a chair in front of my office by Wednesday. Craig From romo@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 11:28:50 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" To: jdowning@mail.utexas.edu, rprentice@mail.utexas.edu, jeslate@mail.utexas.edu, h.romo@mail.utexas.edu, pstrong@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, mxwells@nora.hrc.utexas.edu, canningc@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, mackay@mail.utexas.edu, jvelz@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, ramberg@mail.utexas.edu, rdoughty@mail.utexas.edu, nethercut@mail.utexas.edu, marysteinhardt@mail.utexas.edu, jkroll@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, krascati@mail.utexas.edu, kkitt@mail.utexas.edu, sgreninger@mail.utexas.edu, ekaulbach@mail.utexas.edu, shorne@mail.law.utexas.edu, SGH@mail.utexas.edu, rking@mail.utexas.edu, v.hampton@mail.utexas.edu, gracy@uts.cc.utexas.edu, n.kwallek@mail.utexas.edu, selbyhenry@mail.utexas.edu, msvinicki@mail.utexas.edu, doliphant@mail.utexas.edu, fowler@csr.utexas.edu, rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu, slross@mail.utexas.edu, j.lippmann@mail.utexas.edu, trubowitz@mail.utexas.edu, silverth@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu, joy@mail.utexas.edu, jdgar@mail.utexas.edu, rmettlen@optionii.bus.utexas.edu, jndelgado@mail.utexas.edu, mberry@xmail.utexas.net, ffox@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, pennock@uts.cc.utexas.edu, mjamail@jeeves.la.utexas.edu, david.hunter@mail.utexas.edu, adrgb@utxdp.dp.utexas.edu, arellano@mail.utexas.edu, lobell@mail.utexas.edu, wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu, PKruppa@mail.utexas.edu, brr@prc.utexas.edu, ymora@mail.utexas.edu, aikahera@mail.utexas.edu, dwharton@io.com, seo@mail.utexas.edu, dr.pat@mail.utexas.edu, toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu, gonzalez-gerth@mail.utexas.edu, parmentr@uts.cc.utexas.edu, drrwjack@yahoo.com Subject: Thank you Content-Length: 1569 Times_New_RomanDecember 7, 1998 Dear Freshman Seminars Instructor: From all the reports that I personally have received, the Fall 1998 freshman seminars have been a huge success, and I wish to thank you for your invaluable contribution to the program. I know that the students had an experience that will be vital to them throughout their academic careers at the University. The longer they are here the more they will appreciate the special opportunity they had to work so closely with an outstanding and dedicated instructor like yourself. And years from now they will benefit from the experience in whatever professional field they enter. Without your generosity in sharing your time and energy with the freshmen, this program would not be possible. The Freshman Seminars have been called one of the most important developments at the University in the past twenty-five years, and an indication of this is the fact that so many other universities are beginning to imitate UT's program. I am deeply grateful to you for your part in making the Freshman Seminars a memorable experience for the first-year students and look forward to having you with us again in Fall 1999. Sincerely yours, Ricardo Romo, Vice Provost Director of the Freshman Seminars Program ********************************* * Ricardo Romo * * Vice Provost * * Main 201 * * The University of Texas * * Austin, Texas, 78712-1111 * * Tel. 512-232-3310 * ********************************* From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 14:37:13 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Third Hours Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 378 Dr. Wheeler, I just wanted to make sure all the third hours were accounted for. I noticed last time that my name wasn't highlighted. If you look on the first page where it says "AIAA general meeting/SEC meeting" on September 14th I think-that was two different meetings and that should make fifteen activities, I believe. E'mail me if you dissagree. Thanks a lot, Jamin From wheel Mon Dec 7 15:00:00 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: story Content-Length: 327 Mary, I looked at your disk this morning and the story does not seem to be there. There are the three jpg's of you, and the mission outline, but the other file is a tmp file that seems to be empty. I guess I need you to write your story on a disk again (or pick this one up) and drop it off. Sorry for the bother, Craig From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Dec 7 15:42:50 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: journals Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 306 so do you think we could talk for a few minutes on tuesday so i can get my thing out of the way for ast104? i have to go up for a review between 11-12, if that would help any. but i understand if you're busy. also, ill have the rest of my writing up tonight, if you wanna look at my web sites.... -Tim From lara@astro.as.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 15:45:03 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Picts Content-Length: 312 I've got the pictures done, if you want to come load them up to tycho or bring the floppy. I did a fair job of putting the student in the group photo.... I forgot to give her a shadow though! It's not too obvious since the light was diffuse in the orginal anyway (I'm just being a picky perfectionist!). Lara From wheel Mon Dec 7 16:29:23 1998 To: lara@astro Cc: wheel Subject: another shrink job Content-Length: 107 Lara, Please also shrink http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/holly_nabta_drawing.jpg Thanks Craig From lara@astro.as.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 16:45:21 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: another shrink job Content-Length: 209 >Lara, > >Please also shrink > >http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/holly_nabta_drawing.jpg > >Thanks > >Craig I'm going home for the day, but I'll have all of it ready for you tomorrow. See ya, Lara From wheel Mon Dec 7 17:13:42 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Belated Paper Content-Length: 31 Jamin, got it, thanks, Craig From wheel Mon Dec 7 17:17:29 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Third Hours Content-Length: 660 Jamin, Okay, I'll count those two separately, 15 it is. Craig > From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 14:37:13 1998 > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Subject: Third Hours > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Dr. Wheeler, > > I just wanted to make sure all the third hours were accounted for. I > noticed last time that my name wasn't highlighted. If you look on the > first page where it says "AIAA general meeting/SEC meeting" on September > 14th I think-that was two different meetings and that should make > fifteen activities, I believe. E'mail me if you dissagree. > > Thanks a lot, > > Jamin > > From wheel Mon Dec 7 17:22:39 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: journals Content-Length: 162 Tim, I will be in tomorrow by about 10ish if you want to stop in. I'll have a look at your web site. Keep an eye on the class site, it is still growing. Craig From wheel Mon Dec 7 17:23:36 1998 To: lara@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Picts Content-Length: 122 I got down there just at 5 and must have just missed you. I'll check in tomorrow morning. Thanks for your help!! Craig From wheel Mon Dec 7 18:05:19 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: update Content-Length: 1248 Hi, I made myself a To Be Done list yesterday and today and checked a few things off. Let me know if you can think of other things. Craig XXscan class photo, Mary Tran photo XXscan Mary's sketch for story. XXscan Lynch and Robbins alignment map combine class photo in PhotoShop (add Nam II rocks, black guy?) add Mary's story from disk to site: problem with text XXadd Mary's pics from disk to site XXadd Mary's drawing from disk to site XXadd Mary's class summary from disk to site add background commentary on Nabta summary of Lynch and Robbins, write if nothing from West add refs to Quoc list, edit XXadd Nic's story from word perfect XXadd Jamin's story check on permission for "Starry Night" new material on Borana calendar from Luke add Luke's images somewhere XXreduce scans of Holly's sketches in PhotoShop XXadd counter update Tim's link list add Tim's "back to" graphic, etc add Tim's "African Stars" material XXcheck Mac at work for "save as html" proof read add discussion of other megaliths highlight Kenyan sky of 300 BC add interlinks in material, figures, Wendorf, cows tumulus combine John's home page, other material register with YAHOO, etc make movie of starry night add midi music From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 18:58:02 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: hi Dr. Wheeler Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 541 This is josh. I had to leave town unexpectedly this weekend, but I'm back now and I have two more Third-hour activities to turn in. you had told me to e-mail them to you. By the way, I got your e-mail about the journals, but I only had a research journal and it was basically the material that we discovered in our first month of class. So I didn't know if it would be worth contributing or not. If it is, I can drop it by your office. Otherwise i guess I'll just keep it. Did you receive my second essay? Talk to you later, -joshua. From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Dec 7 23:23:24 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: requirements Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 281 well hers what i got that one pic that other pic a new expanded links page - i added a lot, you gotta check it out! and i added a new section and expanded the text on my STARDATA page. a new pic also so, is that enough or do you need more? p.s. im still lookin for the 2001 MIDI From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Tue Dec 8 00:29:38 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: oops Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 532 O.K., I'm an idiot! I forgot to write my third-hour activities in the last e-mail, so here they are: -Concert in Welch on Nov 13th -Faulkner Fox group poetry reading on Nov 17th (i might have already written this one down) -Italian culture seminar on Nov. 16th, and -Charlesworth on humanities, Nov 17th. Thanks again and I enjoyed your class!! The website is looking great! I kinda answered my own question in the last e-mail about my second essay, as I saw it has already been posted. Talk to you later, -joshua From wheel Tue Dec 8 03:15:23 1998 To: joshb@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: hi Dr. Wheeler Content-Length: 1186 Josh, Do drop off the research journal. I want to keep a copy of those (I just decided) in case individuals have tidbits I don't recall. Another class might extend this some day. Do tell me the other 3rd hour activities, for the record. Remind me of your second essay. I have assimilated so much material in the last week I'm a little paranoid of forgetting something. I have you Nabta essay and your story. You can check them on the site. Craig > From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Mon Dec 7 18:58:02 1998 > X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Subject: hi Dr. Wheeler > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > This is josh. I had to leave town unexpectedly this weekend, but I'm back > now and I have two more Third-hour activities to turn in. you had told me > to e-mail them to you. By the way, I got your e-mail about the journals, > but I only had a research journal and it was basically the material that we > discovered in our first month of class. So I didn't know if it would be > worth contributing or not. If it is, I can drop it by your office. > Otherwise i guess I'll just keep it. Did you receive my second essay? > Talk to you later, -joshua. > > From wheel Tue Dec 8 03:21:21 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: requirements Content-Length: 620 Tim, That will be plenty, thanks. I need to get all that onto the class site. Maybe we can talk about how best to do that when you stop by today. Craig > From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Dec 7 23:23:24 1998 > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Subject: requirements > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > well hers what i got > > that one pic > that other pic > a new expanded links page - i added a lot, you gotta check it out! > and i added a new section and expanded the text on my STARDATA page. a new pic > also > > so, is that enough or do you need more? > p.s. im still lookin for the 2001 MIDI > From seo@mail.utexas.edu Tue Dec 8 06:33:21 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Freshman Seminars:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: Thanks Content-Length: 624 Dear Colleagues: Let me join the Director of the Freshman Seminar Program, Ricardo Romo, in saying thanks to all for making this program work. I know of nothing we have done over the past five years that has received more broad-based praise. Our efforts in these seminars are making a difference in the lives of students who come to this campus seeking an education. It is a grand thing to behold. Thank you. Cheers for the Holiday Season. Sheldon >----------------------------------< Sheldon Ekland-Olson Executive Vice President and Provost The University of Texas at Austin >----------------------------------< From wheel Tue Dec 8 10:11:48 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: web Content-Length: 254 John, Is there going to be some time this week we can get together and merge your home page with the content I've assembled? I have to give a final from 9 to noon tomorrow, Wed and have a meeting 11 - 12 on Friday, but am otherwise pretty free. Craig From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Tue Dec 8 10:51:51 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: web MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 873 Dr. Wheeler, I have two more finals this week: one onThursday at 7pm and one on Friday at 9am-12pm. After that, I am free! It'd be best if I didn't meet before Thursday because I need to study desparetly, but after 12 on Friday I can meet for however long we need to, because I'll be done for the semester. Let me know if this is ok with you. Thanks. -John Mao -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 10:14 AM Subject: web >John, > >Is there going to be some time this week we can get together >and merge your home page with the content I've assembled? > >I have to give a final from 9 to noon tomorrow, Wed >and have a meeting 11 - 12 on Friday, but am otherwise >pretty free. > >Craig From wheel Tue Dec 8 15:06:02 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: web Content-Length: 61 John, Friday afternoon would be fine. See you then. Craig From m902856@hotmail.com Tue Dec 8 18:01:39 1998 X-Originating-IP: [129.116.78.130] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Re: Wendorf MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 312 Dr. Wheeler, I dropped off my disk at your office this morning. The fiction is under the file of NabtaFiction I think...microsoft word. when should I come by and pick up the disk? thank you mary ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From wheel Tue Dec 8 21:56:23 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Wendorf Content-Length: 241 Mary, I was too frantic writing a final today and other things to read your disk and get it installed, but I have the new disk and will check it tomorrow. In the meantime, check the web page and the class photo. It's pretty neat. Craig From wheel Wed Dec 9 08:40:04 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: story, Content-Length: 67 Michael, Got it. I'll read it today and post it. Thanks, Craig From wheel Wed Dec 9 18:40:05 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: journals, etc Content-Length: 398 I have put your moon journals and research journals on a chair outside my door where you can pick them up. I copied the research journals just to keep a record of the various tidbits we picked up. You can also pick up your disks. I don't want to put those in the hall. I'll be here for the next two days, but then off next week. I'll leave the disks with my secretary, Betty, next door. Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 10:13:19 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: grades Content-Length: 385 Dave, I slipped the envelope with my Freshman Seminar grades under your door in the tower yesterday a little before 5. Would you please confirm that you received them? We are going "release" the web page our class constructed tomorrow. I hope you will pass the URL on to everyone involved with the Freshman Seminar program so they can see what my kids did. It was great fun. Craig From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 10 10:18:50 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: grades Content-Length: 146 Craig, I did receive the grades, and I look forward to your Web page. Thanks. Would you do the seminar again next year? Would love to have you. From wheel Thu Dec 10 10:24:14 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: grades Content-Length: 284 Dave, I got a Faculty Research assignment for next Fall so won't be available for the Freshman Seminar. I might consider it again the year after. One of the web people I have been working with in the department said, "gee, I wish they'd had that program when I went to UT!!" Craig From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 10 16:26:59 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: Malville! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 44 Dr. Wheeler, Wow, that's awesome. Jamin From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:01:32 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 250 Dave, There is lots more polishing we could do on this, but please pass on the URL: http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html to people in the Freshman Seminar program so they can see what my excellent crew did this term. Thanks, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:03:42 1998 To: fowler@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 201 Clara, This is still rudimentary, but please check out http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html to see what my class did. Don't overlook the acknowledgments. Best Holiday Wishes, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:05:13 1998 To: mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 171 Molly, This is still rudimentary, but check out http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html and don't overlook the acknowledgments. Best Holiday Wishes, Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:06:11 1998 To: rrr@astro Cc: wheel Subject: Africa Content-Length: 156 Bob, This is still rudimentary and needs both polishing and editing, but here is where we got: http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html Craig From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:08:11 1998 To: chris@astro, elr@astro, fnb@astro, parrot@astro Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 182 Folks, Check this out to see what my Freshman Seminar did this term, http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html Craig ps, it needs more work, but we ran out of time... From wheel Thu Dec 10 22:09:25 1998 To: betty@astro Cc: wheel Subject: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 192 Betty, Check out http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html including the acknowledgments. It could stand a lot of polishing, but we did quite a bit, thanks to your help. Craig From shpion@sprynet.com Thu Dec 10 22:19:35 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1427 Craig: You do, indeed, have the correct address! I look forward to seeing the web site. I'm a bit of an amateur enthusiast of astronomy, as well. I used to have a little 3" reflector, but I eventually gave it to a young boy in the neighborhood, who showed some interest in it. I thought I would soon buy a better scope, but I never did. I'm not much on optics and observation, personally, but it's a lot of fun to do, once in a while. I especially enjoyed "sunspot-chasing", casting the sun's image on a piece of paper, following features across the face of the sun over a period of several days. As for archaeoastronomy, the main focus of my interest is to try to understand how the "man-in-the-street" of the ancient Mediter- ranean world perceived the earth and the cosmos, a little different than just studying the ideas of Ptolemy, Aristotle, or Hipparchos. Please keep in touch, Jim -- Jim McWhorter P.O. Box 8059 Austin, TX 78713-8059 eBay user id: shpion@m9.sprynet.com http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/shpion/ e-mail: shpion@sprynet.com Craig Wheeler wrote: > Good morning. > > I'm just following up on our brief conversation about > archeoastronomy this morning at the Post Office. We > are going to "release" this class web site on archaeoastronomy > in Africa tomorrow and I want to make sure I have your > e-mail address correct. > > Best wishes, > > Craig Wheeler From mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Fri Dec 11 08:53:07 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 456 Craig - Thanks for the acknowledgement. What a fascinating process for you and your class to go through together. It looks like it was fun and productive. Will you continue to have students work on it? Molly ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly T. White ' 512-495-4616 Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library ' mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Univ. of Texas at Austin ' From wheel Fri Dec 11 09:36:58 1998 To: mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 197 Molly, there is lots to do both in terms of polishing the web (and editing contributions!) and in the science, I think. There will be a holiday hiatus, and then we'll see, Happy holidays, Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Fri Dec 11 16:14:46 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 620 >Check out > >http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html > >including the acknowledgments. It could stand a lot >of polishing, but we did quite a bit, thanks to your help. ------------ I would like to read some of this, if I ever have a spare moment. The graphics looks good. Appreciate the acknowledgment. B Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From wheel Fri Dec 11 17:20:02 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: access Content-Length: 166 John, Sorry I was called out for awhile. I don't know why there should be an access problem. And now it is a bit late to check. Let me see what I can do. Craig From wheel Fri Dec 11 17:42:58 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: link Content-Length: 506 John, you were right, it is an access issue for html. My colleague says the unix command to establish the html download capability is (if I have the whole link right) w3mir -r http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa.web There is some question as to whether the function w3mir is on tycho's disk, so if that does not work then the command /home/alla/pah/big/w3mir -r http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa.web should access the function from another disk and execute it. Let's try that. Craig From shpion@sprynet.com Fri Dec 11 20:41:35 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 946 Craig: I don't know how widely you want this disseminated, or on what basis, and I don't know whether you have considered posting a notice of the site to the HASTRO-L (History of Astronomy) listserve or even whether you are a subscriber to that list. If you are not a subscriber, I will be happy to post such a notice on that list. I took a quick look at the site, and I will try to peruse it more carefully soon. Thanks, -- Jim McWhorter P.O. Box 8059 Austin, TX 78713-8059 eBay user id: shpion@m9.sprynet.com http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/shpion/ e-mail: shpion@sprynet.com Craig Wheeler wrote: > Jim, > > This implicitly addresses some issues of which way > the astronomy culture flowed, north or south across > the Mediterranean. We ran out of time in the term > to do a really polished job, but you can get the idea > from > > http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html > > Best holiday wishes, > > Craig From wheel Sat Dec 12 11:23:19 1998 To: shpion@sprynet.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Length: 361 Jim, We do want to dissiminate this, register it with Yahoo, etc, but we are still working on it and I want to talk to local security experts before we really release it. I'm off on travel for a week so this won't get resolved right away. Thanks for the tip, though, we'll do it, or give you the high sign, and you can spread the word. Best wishes, Craig From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Fri Dec 11 15:51:07 1998 To: "J. C. Wheeler" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE251E.BBD508E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 1260 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE251E.BBD508E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dr. Wheeler, I'm here in my room, and it won't let my send the files over. I'm = wondering if it's access problems. Please advise, Thanks. -John Mao ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE251E.BBD508E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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I'm here in my room, and it won't = let my send=20 the files over.  I'm wondering if it's access problems.  = Please=20 advise,  Thanks.
 
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------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE251E.BBD508E0-- From wheel Sat Dec 12 11:40:18 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: tycho Content-Length: 347 John, I see that africa.web is still empty, so I guess that instruction did not work. If you would like to talk about it, I'll be at home at 329-0730 until about 1:30 when I have to leave for the airport. Otherwise, maybe we can work on it next term, or maybe we can do something from home. I'll be back next Saturday. Happy Holidays! Craig From shpion@sprynet.com Sat Dec 12 11:41:10 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 619 Craig: It shall be so. Have a good trip. -- Jim McWhorter P.O. Box 8059 Austin, TX 78713-8059 eBay user id: shpion@m9.sprynet.com http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/shpion/ e-mail: shpion@sprynet.com Craig Wheeler wrote: > Jim, > > We do want to dissiminate this, register it with Yahoo, etc, but > we are still working on it and I want to talk to local security > experts before we really release it. > > I'm off on travel for a week so this won't get resolved right > away. Thanks for the tip, though, we'll do it, or give you > the high sign, and you can spread the word. > > Best wishes, > > Craig From mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Thu Dec 17 11:18:31 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: fyi Content-Length: 737 Craig - Just had a phone call telling me that the journal Archaeoastronomy published by the Center for Archaeoastronomy at Univ. of MD is moving to UT Press effective this spring. The journal is moving to a home with compatible interests (ie the Maya Project) and they expect to produce the first issue by May/June. This title is at PCL, and was cancelled in 1993. It in classed with anthropology books. I will bring it to the attention of the current anthro bibliographer in PCL. Molly ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly T. White ' 512-495-4616 Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library ' mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Univ. of Texas at Austin ' From wheel Thu Dec 10 10:11:57 1998 To: shpion@sprynet.com Cc: wheel Subject: archaeoastronomy Content-Length: 293 Good morning. I'm just following up on our brief conversation about archeoastronomy this morning at the Post Office. We are going to "release" this class web site on archaeoastronomy in Africa tomorrow and I want to make sure I have your e-mail address correct. Best wishes, Craig Wheeler From wheel Fri Dec 11 09:34:10 1998 To: shpion@sprynet.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: archaeoastronomy Content-Length: 302 Jim, This implicitly addresses some issues of which way the astronomy culture flowed, north or south across the Mediterranean. We ran out of time in the term to do a really polished job, but you can get the idea from http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html Best holiday wishes, Craig From parrot@astro.as.utexas.edu Fri Dec 11 13:09:26 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient Astronomy in Africa Content-Length: 724 Really nice, Craig. Sometime I'll have to talk to you about how you went about setting this up. e.g. did you already know how to write web pages, or did Kirsten do it (I read acknowledgements, but couldn't tell if she just got it started) or students. Next time I have to write up a package for a teaching award for you, I can direct the judges to this site as one aspect of your small-teaching work. (By the way, I see that last year the big prizes requested nominations in January, so maybe we're still ok on that.) -John >Folks, > >Check this out to see what my Freshman Seminar did this term, > >http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/africa.html > >Craig > >ps, it needs more work, but we ran out of time... From mattbl@mail.utexas.edu Sun Dec 13 03:24:29 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: FS:picture Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 128 Greetings Dr. Wheeler! On the WebPage, Picture section, Mike wasn't named on the list below the picture. Merry Christmas! Mary From mattbl@mail.utexas.edu Sun Dec 13 03:25:28 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Tim's name Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 59 Also, Tim's name was written as Time on the webpage. mary From wheel Thu Dec 17 02:25:27 1998 To: mattbl@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Tim's name Content-Length: 131 Mq Mary Greetins from Pqais Pais Paris where the keyboards are different I will change those errors Happy holidays Craig From wheel Sat Dec 26 17:45:45 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: web page Content-Length: 596 Mary, I hope you had a good Christmas. I was just doing a little polishing on the African web page and ran across several places where you could contribute if you are still interested. We need a summary of the original paper on Namoratunga by Lynch and Robbins, a summary of Lynch's reply to Soper at the end of the Soper article and a discussion of the nature of the Borana calenda and the various attempts to interpret it, concluding with Ruggles. If you are interested in trying any or all of those, let me know. In the mean time , I hope you have a great new year, best wishes, Craig END CLASS MAIL 3 ***********************************************************