Persia is Iran, Iran is Persia, Iran is not Iraq, and Persia is not Bosnia
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davinci on
September 13, 2009 in
personal and social issues.
Tags: Bosnia, Chinese, Ehsan Yarshater, English, Fars, Farsi, Iran, Iraq, misidentification, Parsa, Persia, Persian, ايران, عراق, 伊拉克, 伊朗, 波斯, 波斯尼亚.
This post was inspired by the post from two days ago on the flags of the world.
I’ve always considered Reza Shah Pahlavi’s 1935 decree requesting that the country formerly known as Persia be referred to as “Iran” by foreign governments with which it had diplomatic relations to be a mistake. Naturally, once governments began to refer to the country as Iran, their citizens followed suit. This change at once led to a severing in the Western consciousness of Iran from the Persian culture of classical antiquity, and also created a situation in which the name of the country can easily become confounded with that of its neighbour and recurrent rival, Iraq, a name which entered the mainstream vocabulary of Western languages only in 1932 with the founding of the Kingdom of Iraq in that year.
Actually, in Arabic and Persian, the names Iraq and Iran sound quite different, and they are not very similar to each other when written in the Perso-Arabic script… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Annotate With Jarnal Plug-In Module for Wikindx
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Published by
davinci on
September 13, 2009 in
open notebook science and programming and technical issues.
Tags: annotate, Annotate With Jarnal, annotateWithJarnal, annotating PDFs, bash, Jarnal, module, network, networking, PDF, PHP, plug-in, plugin, WIKINDX.
For my Ph.D. research, I had set up the Wikindx bibliography management system for use on my laptop to keep track of the papers that I had read or come across. Furthermore, I use it to store local copies of frequently accessed papers by attaching them as PDF files.
Because I’m using Jarnal to annotate these papers, I wanted to integrate the ability to launch Jarnal into Wikindx itself, and also to store the annotations in Wikindx along with the attached documents.
I wrote the Annotate With Jarnal plug-in module for Wikindx initially for my private use, so it’s not very polished. But it gets the job done… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]