PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER

Pramoedya Ananta Toer. 1950a. Mereka yang Dilumpuhkan. Balai Pestaka, Jakarta

1950b. Perburuan. Balai Pustaka, Jakarta

1952. Cerita dari Blora. Balai Pustaka, Jakarta

1957. Cerita dari Jakarta. Grafica, Jakarta

1959. Bukan Pasar Malam. Balai Pustaka, Jakarta

1962. Panggil Aku Kartini Saja. Nusantara, Bukit Tinggi 2jld

1980. Bumi Manusia. Hasta-Mitra, Jakarta-Amsterdam

1982. Tempoe doeloe: Antologi sastra pra-Indonesia. Hasta Mitra, Jakarta

KEDAH SULTANATE OLDER THAN MELAKA

Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah (deceased)

SITE OF SOLOMON TEMPLE

The Farthest Mosque,  refers to the site of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem on the hill of Moriah, at or near which stands the Dome of the Rock and Masjid al-Aqsa. They were completed by the Amir 'Abd al-Malik in A.H. 68. 

In the time of the Prophet, it was a sacred place to both Jews and Christians, the latter had included in the Byzantine (Roman) Empire and maintained a Patriarch at Jerusalem which was later conquered by Caliph Omar.

1. Glory to (Allah) who did take His servant to a journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless, - in order that We might show him some of Our signs: for He is the One who hears and sees.     Surah 17: Bani Isra'il or A-Isra'.

The Mi'raj took place in the year before the Prophet's Hijrah

THE GUILLOTINE

Hardliners in charge of the new secular gomen led France to war against a coalition of Austria, Prussia and French émigrés in April 1792.

Austria is the country of birth of Marie Antoinette, France’s unpopular and extravagant queen consort. In fact, Marie Antoinette – a Habsburg archduchess in her own right – was sister to Leopold II, the Holy Roman Emperor.

Her husband the French king Louis XVI had refused to contemplate a civil war and was overthrown on 10 Aug 1792. On orders from the National Convention in January of the following year, the king’s head was chopped off.

A few months later on 14 Oct 1793, Marie Antoinette too surrendered her head to the guillotine‘s glinting blade in the centre of the public square.

(adapted after Helen Ang)

BATAVIA - CITY AND PORT

RENAMED - TELOK MA' HITAM TO TELOK ANSON, 1882

Council Minutes, Perak

15th March 1882

Present:

Regent 

Resident (Hugh Low)

Raja Dris

Temenggong

Kadzi

Dato' Raja Mahkota

10. At the suggestion of the Resident the Regent in Council directs that the new Settlement  at Telok Ma' Hitam is to be known as 'Telok Anson', in compliment to General Anson, who drew the first plan of the town and took great interest in its removal from Durian Sebatang. The name Telok Ma' Hitam has also been found inconveniently long.

MALAYAN NEOLITHIC AND HOABINHIAN - CERAMIC TRADITION