Tony Scott, Lensery

A Lensography for the Countries of Eastern Europe

My lenses on countries in Eastern Europe cataloged by geographical region and historical circumstance.

All Things Armenian Headquarters

All Things Armenian All lenses about Armenia, the Armenian Diaspora, the Genocides, Armenian art, language, culture, craft, history, trade, religion, and...

Soviets and Successors Headquarters

Soviets and Successors All groups connected with member countries of the Soviet Union, their predecessors, and their successors. Also art, life, and culture of those countries.

Everything Caucasus Headquarters

Everything Caucasus A home for all lenses about the countries, art, culture, history and peoples of the Caucasus, including: Russian republics of the North Caucasus; The post-Soviet nations of the Transcaucasus; and their Ancestors, predecessors...

Wales and the World Headquarters

Wales and the World Everything Welsh, and especially the Welsh diaspora.

The Sun Never Set: The British Empire and Commonwealth Headquarters

The Sun Never Set: The British Empire and Commonwealth Cecil Rhodes committed Britain to a policy of expansion summed up as "The sun should never set on the British Empire." The group is for lenses about all the consequences of that policy: the coun...

History of Mathematics Headquarters

History of Mathematics A gathering place for lenses about significant mathematicians, historically-significant problems and theories, and lens about mathematical aspects of culture. A word on scientists: scientists in any branch of science may have...

Europe 

The Caucasus

The Caucasus is at the hinge of Europe and Asia. It is a mountainous region that has encouraged and preserved a great variety in ethnic groups and traditions. That same diversity and terrain, coupled with discoveries of oil and gas in the region, mak...

Empires and Enclaves Index Lens

This lens indexes a cascade of lenses "Empires and Enclaves" which attempts to provide pointers to geographical, historical, and political background information on current crises e.g. South Ossetia 2008 Certain places whose status is disputed are i...

Empires and Enclaves: Alphabetic Index

The Empires and Enclaves Cascade of Lenses

The Balkans

The Bosnia and Kosovo crises stemmed from the extension of the Ottoman Empire in South-East Europe. The ethnic diversity of the area, and the religious elements of it, were disguised for a while by the hegemony of the USSR*. Once the USSR dissolved...

The Levant

The Levant is defined as the area bounded to the West by the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean, to the North by the Taurus Mountains, to the east by Mesopotamia and to the South by the Arabian Desert. It is currently composed of Lebanon, Jordan, S...

Russia and the Post-Soviet States 

The Countries and Peoples of Central Asia

A better question might be who? There is a narrow definition: the former nomads who were Sovietized in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. There is a very wide definition: the Altaic peroples. Probably the most appropriat...

The North Caucasus Region of the Russian Federation

This lens points to the ten constituent regions (Republics, krais, oblasts) which make up Russia's troubled North Caucasus economic region.

100 Lenses About Russia

Russia has over eighty "Federal Subjects" which are roughly equivalent to States in the US or countries in Europe, except that a Federal Subject could be an area (Oblast), region (Krai), municipality (Moscow) or, in fact, a local government of any si...

The South Caucasus Region and the Legacy of Empire

This lens indexes the post-Soviet states of the South Caucasus, their enclaves and exclaves.

Russia and the Post-Soviet States

The post-soviet states: Some of the post-Soviet states that opted for independence rather than membership of the Russian Federation have joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. Many are, or are becoming, members of the European Community. This...

Asia 

The India Index: Provinces and States

This index lens provides a connection to detailed lenses on each of India's states and provinces. under construction

The Philippines: Regions and SuperRegions

This index lens provides links to the 17 regions currently defined in the Philippines, and the recent proposals for super-regions. Onward links from the lenses (websites) about each region will lead to information about the 81 provinces. Provincial b...

The Provinces of the People's Republic of China

The PRC has 22 Administrative Provinces (if you do not count Taiwan), 5 autonomous regions, 4 Municipalities (super-cities), and 2 special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau.) This lens is an index to web sites for each of the Administrativ...

Maritime Perspectives 

Maritime Perspectives in Global Politics

The over-arching theme of the set of lenses to which this lens belongs, Empires and Enclaves, is the problems of groups of peoples being surrounded by each other, as nation-states took over from empires. Sometimes that results in rich, multi-ethnic,...

The Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea has been important not just to the Scandinavian countries and Russia, but to the evolution of all Europe. But most of us are not really very familiar with the geography of the Baltic or the international organizations and cooperation n...

The Caspian Basin

Geography and Resources of the Caspian Sea

The Black Sea Basin

The Black Sea was a busy waterway on the crossroads of the ancient world: the Balkans to the West, the Eurasian steppes to the north, Caucasus and Central Asia to the East, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia to the south, and Greece to the south-west.

The Adriatic Sea Basin

The Adriatic has been and is again a major trade highway, and is highly impacted by tourism and small-scale but high-risk industrialization. It is also a difficult place to fight a war or keep the peace.

Chesley Bonestell

Boudica

Artie Shaw

[Artie Shaw's] playing was eventually recognized as equal to that of Benny Goodman: Longtime Duke Ellington clarinetist Barney Bigard cited Shaw as his favorite clarinet player. In response to Goodman's nickname, the "King of Swing", Shaw's fans dubb...

Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his negotiating skills. These skills were honed during his time as President of Finland, and in contrast to the tradition of neutrality adopted by the Scandinavian countries in the Cold War.

Kim Cascone and Glitch Music

Cascone is an academically-trained musician experimenting with electronic music, amnbient sound and "glitch music" - a genre he has helped to create.

G.H.Hardy

"Non-mathematicians usually know [G.H.Hardy] for 'A Mathematicians Apology', his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics. The apology is often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician" (from Wikipedia arti...

Leif Ericson: Discoverer of America?

Lief Ericson may or may not have discovered America, he may or may not have been the first European to do so. But it is certain that Scandinavians did settle in North America during the Viking Era. And perhaps we should not expect "forensic" evidence...

Gytha and Vladimir

We don't have any images of Gytha, which is a pity, because she a worthy wife for Vladimir of Ruthenia, Vladimir II of Kiev, Prince of All Rus. Gytha fled to the Danish court on the death of her father, Harold II, at the Battle of Hastings. She marr...

Prince Madoc

Madoc here. Discoverer of America, isn't it.* Didn't make any money. Well, I did but then I lost my gold purse somewhere in Canadiensis. Got here by magic coracle. Great magician, my cousin Myrddyn. Well, Merlin to you guys. There's rumors out there...

Guy Fawkes, All Hallow's E'en, and Samhain.

Halloween seems to be a much bigger deal in the US than in Britain, even though the All Hallows Eve celebration originated there. But in Britain they also have Bonfire Night, on November 5th, right after Halloween Guy Fawkes gets burnt in effigy. Fi...

Sir Stamford Raffles

Raffles was one of the more successful of the (slightly) eccentric soldiers and gentlemen who built the British Empire. Singapore's establishment effectively divided the Malay World in two, Indonesia and Malaysia. Only recently, with Batam in the Ria...

Paul Erdős

Erdos was one of the most prolific publishers of papers in mathematical history, second only to Leonhard Euler; Erdos published more papers, while Euler published more pages. He wrote around 1,500 mathematical articles in his lifetime, mostly with co...

Lev Gumilev

Richard Phillips Feynman

Richard Feynman was first and foremost, a brilliant teacher. He also won a Nobel Prize for Physics (which could have easily been for Mathematics). He played the bongos (well). He collected stamps as a boy, and put the throat singers of Tuva on the wo...

Paul Pena

Paul Pena was a blind folk singer who discovered Mongolian folk signing through a faint signal on the radio. He explored throat singing and its resonances with the blues, got himself to Kyzyl, Tuva, and impressed the Mongolian artists with his effort...

Leon Theremin

Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia is one of the most conservative justices on the US Supreme Court today (August 2008). He is also one of the most senior justices on the court, which does many things in order of priority of appointment. So he is very influential. As is...

Tony Scott, Jazz Musician

From Tony Scott's Times Obituary: "In later life, with a shaven head and long flowing white beard, [he] cut a distinctive figure, very much in keeping with the man who had recorded the million-selling musical backdrop for the hippie generation, Music...

Tony Scott, Comic

Tony Scott (Comic) is from Florida, but Valencia, Spain, is where he'd rather be, entertaining European tourists and residents at Benidorm's night clubs.

Tony Scott, Chief Information Officer

Microsoft tapped former Disney executive Tony Scott to take over as the company's Chief Information Officer in January 2008. Scott was previously CIO as Disney, and before that CTO at General Motors and VP of operations ad Bristol-Meyers Squibb.

Tony Scott, Film Maker

Anthony D. L. "Tony" Scott (born 21 July 1944) is an English film director. His films include Top Gun, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State and Spy Game,. He is the brother of director Ridley Scott.

Tony Scott, Professor

This is one of a series of lenses about people called Tony Scott. We are artists, musicians, film makers, a distinguished minister, two or three computer programmers, and as it turns out, several who have sought the academic life. I've stuck all the...

Tony Scott, Pastor

"Tony Scott has made an enormous impact on the city of Toledo. In January 2005, God fulfilled a life-long dream for the Scott's when they received possession of a campus that houses a 120,000 sq. ft. building that sprawls over 57 acres! From this new...

Glitch Art and Glitch Artist, Ant/Tony Scott

This lens is about one of the Anthony Scott's who goes by Ant Scott rather than Tony Scott. He is an artist exploring the visual consequences of computer and other electronic glitches, and the glitch aesthetic (the aesthetic evolved form electroinic...

Who is Tony Scott?

Check out ALL the Tony Scott's below. then check me out - I'm at the end of the list, below the distinguished and famous guys!

Tony Scott, All of the Above*

There are many distinguished people named Tony Scott. I'm not one of them. I'm just Tony Scott, lensmaster, and this is my bio page. But, in an extraordinary way, my career has had little bits of synergy with all those other Tony Scott's...

Tony Scott, Lensmaster

The lens advances my credentials to be a Lensmaster offering lensmaking, lens marketing, photography, publishing and research services, on a flat-fee, transfer fee, or per-hour basis.

Tony Scott, Lensery

I hereby designate a 'Lensery' to be a) a Lensography of Lensographies b) a Diary of one's progress with one's lenses c) a Prospectus of lenses to come, both those which are works-in-progress and ideas for lenses. Whereas a Lensography is just a lis...

Index Lenses 

Empires and Enclaves: Alphabetic Index

The Empires and Enclaves Cascade of Lenses

Empires and Enclaves Index Lens

This lens indexes a cascade of lenses "Empires and Enclaves" which attempts to provide pointers to geographical, historical, and political background information on current crises e.g. South Ossetia 2008 Certain places whose status is disputed are i...

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Naxcivan, Nagorno-Karabakh 

Armenia

Armenia has a huge history for a small country. Not only do we have to come to terms with not one, but at least two episodes of attempted genocide against the Armenian people, we have to deal with the results of Armenian geography and history in the...

Nagorno-Karabakh

A very beautiful and mountainous region, inhabited mostly by people of Armenian stock, wholly surrounded by Azerbaijan (or part of Azerbaijan, depending on your point of view). A source of great tension and violence. Armenia and Azerbaijan are techni...

Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijani capital, Baku, is at the beak, flying into the Caspian Sea. The detached feather at the tail is Naxcivan, an "exclave" of Azerbaijan proper.

Naxcivan

The Azerbaijani capital, Baku, is at the beak, flying into the Caspian Sea. The detached feather at the tail is Naxcivan, an "exclave" of Azerbaijan proper.

Russian Perspectives 

Pipeline Politics

Russia and the Post-Soviet States

The post-soviet states: Some of the post-Soviet states that opted for independence rather than membership of the Russian Federation have joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. Many are, or are becoming, members of the European Community. This...

Empire Resurgent: The Second Russian Empire Under Vladimir Putin

The question the West failed to ask, when US President George Bush said he had looked into Putin's eyes, and liked what he saw, was what did Putin see in Bush's eyes? He saw that he had, that Russia had, opportunity. The US was being led by oilmen in...

The Great Game, Again: Russia, Georgia, and the Southern Thrust

Russia's humiliation of Georgia is not accidental. Ossetia provided a pretext for an instructive lesson. Russia has demonstrated that it can close down the new Silk Route, the Baku pipelines that run through Georgia, at will. If it wants to take thin...

Turkey, Georgia, Abkhazia, Ossetia 

Abkhazia

Abkhazia is in the SOUTH Caucasus. It is on the NORTH shore of the Black Sea. It is (or was) a province in the WEST of the country of Georgia. The Caucasus Mountains (and the country of Russia) lie to the north and north-east.

Turkey

The modern country of Turkey occupies a key geographical and political position between Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The Anatolian plateau both provides and discourages access and contact between countries bordering the Ea...

Georgia

Georgia's roots go back to Colchis and Iberia, real countries but the source of many myths, at the south-east corner of the Black Sea. Much conquered, Georgia has managed to maintain its language and identity for many centuries. Ethnic rivalries cau...

Ossetia

The Ossetians are a branch of the Alans, a formerly nomadic people speaking an Iranian language. To the north of the Roki Tunnel lies the (Russian North Caucasus) Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. To the south lies South Ossetia, self-declared as the...

Balkans General Lenses 

The Balkans

The Bosnia and Kosovo crises stemmed from the extension of the Ottoman Empire in South-East Europe. The ethnic diversity of the area, and the religious elements of it, were disguised for a while by the hegemony of the USSR*. Once the USSR dissolved...

Bosniaks

The Bosniaks are a) a South Slavic people, living mainly in Bosnia & Herzegovina, but also in Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, and the Republic of Macedonia; b) Muslim and c) adhering to a common Bosnian culture, history, and language. In the Eng...

Living Aspects of Antiquity: The Illyrians

The image is the logo of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Archaeological Park (a possible Illyrian artifact) The Illyrians are a (pre)classical people who lived along the north Adriatic coast (opposite present-day Italy), an area now occupied by seve...

Aspects of Antiquity - Works in Progress 

Living Aspects of Antiquity: The Thracians

Ancient Thrace is now divided between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey. This lens will look at the Thrace of Classical Antiquity, notable Thracians in mythology and history, and Thrace's continung influence in the modern world.

The possibility of an international legal system

Some nations have declared themselves subject to a system of laws greater themselves. Others, notably the USA, "cherry pick" which cases they will put forward to such courts. A very few nations maintain that they are subject to no laws other than the...

Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia is one of the most conservative justices on the US Supreme Court today (August 2008). He is also one of the most senior justices on the court, which does many things in order of priority of appointment. So he is very influential. As is...

The Supreme Court of The United States of America

The Supreme Court, its power and limits, the Supreme Court Justices, and the balance of power.

The Social Democratic Party of the United Kingdom

An account of the Social Democratic Party and the alliance with the Liberal Party, by one of its (minor!) founding members.

Team of Rivals: The Next Cabinet?

Abraham Lincoln build his cabinet around the rivals who ran against him. This story is told in the book "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. President-Elect Obama has specifically praised Lincoln's strategy and Goodwin's book. So who would you...

Theremins

The theremin is the first musical instrument you can play without touching. It was created in 1919 by a Russian scientist named Lev Sergeyvich Termen. You've probably heard it in countless scifi and thriller movie music scores. Browse this lens to le...

Work in Progress 

Crimea, The Group

Native American Casinos

Casinos on tribal lands have held a promise of income for impoverished nations. To some extent that has been realized, but not without problems. The nations who are best placed have been able to generate sufficient income to invest in non-casino-depe...

The Iroquois Confederacy: The Seneca Nation of Indians

The Seneca nation's own name is Onondowaga, meaning "People of the Great Hill", and they became known as the "Keepers of the Western Door" because they settled and lived the farthest west of all the nations within the Haudenosaunee. (The Iroqois Conf...

Work in Progress 

The Iroquois Confederacy: The Mohawk

The Iroquois Confederacy: The Onondaga

The Iroquois Confederacy: The Oneida

The Iroquois Confederacy: The Cayuga

The Cayuga are a small nation now, and were always junior partners in the Six Nations. But there was a time when they took responsibility for some tributary nations. Chief Logan was a Cayuga chief. The source for the model on which the organization o...

The Iroquois Confederacy: The Tuscarora

Garden Wars: The Battle of the Bagworms

I'm trying to gather everything I can find about the bagworm (pretty indiscriminately) to assist myself and others, in defeating this pernicious pest.

Published Lenses 

Inheriting The Trade

Thomas DeWolf (photographed here) discovered he was descended from a family of rich slave owners. He participated in a film which traced the triangle from Ghana, where slaves were bought to the Cuban sugar fields to Rhode Island, where rum made from...

Work in Progress 

The Triangle Trade

Some argue that the Triangle Trade was "only" a product of its times. Others, even at the beginning of the evolution of the system, thought it morally reprehensible. Economically, the middle passage didn't even make many fortunes for ship owners. May...

Slavery Today and Yesterday

A resource lens on Slavery, today and yesterday, globally and in the United States.

Completed Lenses 

G.H.Hardy

"Non-mathematicians usually know [G.H.Hardy] for 'A Mathematicians Apology', his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics. The apology is often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician" (from Wikipedia arti...

History of Mathematics Headquarters

History of Mathematics A gathering place for lenses about significant mathematicians, historically-significant problems and theories, and lens about mathematical aspects of culture. A word on scientists: scientists in any branch of science may have...

Work in Progress 

How the History of Mathematics is Made (Math Historiography)

History of Mathematics

Paul Erdős

Erdos was one of the most prolific publishers of papers in mathematical history, second only to Leonhard Euler; Erdos published more papers, while Euler published more pages. He wrote around 1,500 mathematical articles in his lifetime, mostly with co...

Completed 

Making The Money Channel: Meeting A Squidoo Challenge

An account of the making of the lens: The Money Channel: The first business TV channel in Romania.

Work in Process