Web Excursions
The Characters
Nobel Prize award citation.
Biography of Christiaan Eijkman and prize lecture, Nobel e-Museum.
Biography of Frederick Gowland Hopkins and prize lecture, Nobel e-Museum.
Umetaro Suzuki, the first(?) to isolate 'aberic acid', the compound now known as thaimine (vitamin B1)
The Setting & Historical Background
History of the Dutch East Indies with "an attitude".
War, Spices and the "Indies"
Growth of the Dutch empire.
An introduction to Indonesian music -- the gamelan, an orchestra of gongs and metallophones.
Gongcast -- a sampling of gamelan music for RealPlayer6+.
Gamelan in the Twin Cities: the Schubert Club Ensemble, with classes by the Indonesian Performing Arts Assoc. of Minn. -- with a few short excerpts.
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