Friday, March 6, 2009 Hints Of Sex And Magic Some, like Barbara Hutton and Charlie Chaplin, were rich and famous and stayed only for a short time. Others, like painter Walter Spies, car...
6:35 PM Conquests And Dutch Colonial Rule In the 19th century, Europe took up the fashion of empire building with a vengeance. Tiny Holland, once Europe's most prosperous tradin...
6:35 PM A Macabre Massacre In 1908 the bloody puputan (meaning "ending" in Balinese ) was repeated on a smaller scale in Klungkung. The ghastly scene was one...
6:34 PM A literary Character Lange was perhaps the prototype for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim - a man who failed to pick the winning side in an internecine dynastic stru...
6:33 PM The 'Green Revolution' Recent changes in Balinese agricultural practices have brought about fundamental changes in the relationship of the Balinese to their stap...