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(Message started by: Vladimir на 03/27/04 в 15:10:15)

Заголовок: Они были еще при жизни Профессора?!
Прислано пользователем Vladimir на 03/27/04 в 15:10:15

http://www.utro.ru/news/2004/03/27/292247.shtml

...Одно из самых старых деревьев города - эльдарская сосна, которая была высажена еще в 1897 году

Заголовок: Re: Они были еще при жизни Профессора?!
Прислано пользователем Antrekot на 03/27/04 в 15:43:36

Эльдарская? Ничего.
Хотя у нас тут на Тасмании одна штука растет, так ей, кажется, 10,000. Примерно. Она, может, еще Финрода помнит.

С уважением,
Антрекот

Заголовок: Re: Они были еще при жизни Профессора?!
Прислано пользователем TimTaler на 03/28/04 в 07:59:23

До сих пор (30 лет прошло!) помню ощущения, которые испытал, когда мне в Нальчике сообщили, что вот эта аллея лип высажена ссыльными декабристами. Честно говоря, тогда историю знал не очень, а сейчас не хочется разрушать этот образ. Поэтому документальных подтверждений не искал.

Заголовок: Re: Они были еще при жизни Профессора?!
Прислано пользователем TimTaler на 03/29/04 в 08:49:19

The Oak Beams of New College, Oxford by Gregory Bateson

I owe this story to a man who was I think a New College student and was
head of the department of Medicine at the University of Hawaii, where he
told it to me.
New College, Oxford, is of rather late foundation, hence the name. It
was probably founded around the late 16th century. It has, like other
colleges, a great dining hall with big oak beams across the top, yet?
These might be eighteen inches square, twenty feet long.
Some five or ten years ago, so I am told, some busy entomologist went
up into the roof of the dining hall with a penknife and poked at the beams
and found that they were full of beetles. This was reported to the College
Council, who met in some dismay, because where would they get beams of that
caliber nowadays?
One of the Junior Fellows stuck his neck out and suggested that there
might be on College lands an oak. These colleges are endowed with pieces
of land scattered across the country. So they called in the College
Forrester, who of course had not been near the college itself for some
years, and asked him about oaks.
And he pulled his forelock and said, "Well sirs, we was wonderin' when
you'd be askin'."
Upon further inquiry it was discovered that when the College was
founded, a grove of oaks had been planted to replace the beams in the
dining hall when they became beetly, because oak beams always become beetly
in the end. This plan had been passed down from one Forrester to the next
for four hundred years. "You don't cut them oaks. Them's for the College
Hall."