I would first like to thank Mike West for his service as past president. Among many other issues Mike has provided invaluable service to ISBA by revising and reviving our IT infrastructure. Many of you must have already used the nifty new on-line membership service. The elected new officers for 2010 and the new editors were already mentioned in the last Bulletin. In addition to these new office...

This article discusses the names of mining objects gold and rock crystal located in Southern, Middle, Circumpolar Urals. These include mines, placers, veins, other artificial on territory deposits associated with extraction these minerals. The purpose study is to identify main models object nomination compare specific cases using depending characteristics extracted raw materials, methods their ...

The minaret and archaeological remains at Jam, in central Afghanistan, were nominated as Afghanistan's first World Heritage site in 2002. The nomination was successful despite the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)'s reservations about the quality and completeness of the nomination document: in particular, ICOMOS was concerned about the rudimentary mapping and imprecise defin...

The article analyzes mental representations of Russian lyrical prose texts. The texts demonstrate collective memory engrams that are defined by cultural and historical legacy of the nation and authors’ creative world perception. In architectonics of a lyrical prose text, sense perception reveals itself in accumulated underlying meanings and wisdom conveyed by expressive means. The author’s inte...