Belgrade. Slobodan Milosevic's body was flown from the Netherlands to Serbia on Wednesday for the funeral, which will take place in his hometown, Porzarevac, ending the debate about where he should be buried. While Serbia had a hard time giving his family the permission to bury him in Serbia, Milosevic's body will be flown out of the Netherlands to Serbia today. Milosevic's widow, Mirjana Markovic, coordinated the transportation of the body from their home in Moscow. His son Marko, from Moscow, has travelled to The Hague to accompany the body. The corpus lay overnight in the morgue at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam.
Due to fears that the event could trigger an outpouring of nationalist emotions, the body will go on ... >> more

Gymnasium Ulricianum looks back on a long tradition of co-ordinating International Comenius - Projects since 1989. These educational projects, which are financially supported by the European Union, aim at the co-operation of students and teachers at European schools. Apart from the Ulricianum the seven Schools from six countries in the current project are from Kepno and Wroclaw in Poland, Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, Pribram in the Czech Republic, Redruth in Cornwall and Vollen in Norway.
Topic and Aim: The current Comenius project is designed for three years 2005 - 2008 and has the topic "Regional Culture in a European Context". Aim of this activity is to give the participants the chance to actively contempla... >> more

Aurich. Seven years ago we were proud about our 10 years jubilee, today we are producing the 20th edition of THE ULRICIANUM TIMES and it looks like we've got another good reason to be proud as we are producing in our 17th year already. Can you imagine, how many changes the computer world has seen during these years and how the printing technology has changed since then?
We actually printed each single article and cut & pasted each single page of the newspaper which then was brought to the printers' (Ostfriesische Nachrichten) who made a film of it for the printing machines. Sounds like Gutenberg and that's what it nearly was until less than five years ago!
Most of the changes can be seen in the last five ed... >> more

Australia. The oval shaped, cow hided covered object is thrown into the air by a man dressed completely in white. Two men, each over 200cm tall, run at each other and towards the ball. They collide. One of them manages to get a hand to the ball and knock it towards a waiting mate, who quickly kicks the ball as far as possible in the direction of his large white sticks. This is the beginning of one of the fastest, toughest, hardest and most ferocious games on this planet- Australian Rules football.
Not many people around the globe have ever come across this traditional Australian game, even though it is most intriguing and worth watching. Every Saturday morning in the Australian winter, hundreds of thousands of fo... >> more

In the broadest sense, it is a movie about racism, because it shows how our lives are affected by cultural intolerance and social differences. It does so in a really refreshing way almost free of clichés, while not really commiting itself to a defined position regarding the problems of our society. Instead, it states the situation and lets the viewer draw his own conclusions. To give you a faint idea of what I mean, I'll just pick out one particular scene and explain it.

A lawyer and his wife are walking down the street in a part of Los Angeles mainly populated by white people and money. Anthony (Chris "Ludachris" Bridges) and Peter (Larenz Tate), both of them black, are walking in the opposite direction,... >> more

Aurich. By now, it is widely acknowledged, that Germany didn't do well in the PISA study. While the bigger part of the world was blaming the German educational system, the German mentality, or the German weather, we found that - even though it might not be the sole cause for our disastrous PISA outcome - a lot of our pupils lack something which is essential for the exhausting process of making it through the day: breakfast.
To get an accurate picture of breakfast habits among our pupils, we carried out a survey at our school.
In constrast to similar studies, we found that only around 15% of our 9th and 10th graders do not eat in the morning. And while this may look like an insignificantly small number, it ... >> more

Aurich. On March 17th in cities like Dublin, London, Paris, Munich, Chicago and Hong Kong millions of people will go out on the streets in order to participate in one of the numerous parades on that day. On this day you can also meet people all dressed in green clothes, wearing shamrocks and sometimes dying rivers green, which actually isn't an Irish custom and the Irish themselves consider it to be "crazy".
The world's biggest celebration of St. Patrick's Day takes place in Manhattan, New York with about 150,000 people participating in the parade and about 2 million joining the whole ceremony. The smallest celebration is claimed to be found in Hot Springs, Arkansas with less than one city block.
Nonetheles... >> more