European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Calendar Austria Vienna festival weeks Vienna May Une 15. Belgium holy blood procession Brutus May 8. The Day it Gim Ullh High mass at 11 . In the Cathedral. Tile procession depicting events from the Bible begins at 3 . Tickets from tourist office Markl 7, a Boot Bruges Cost about $4. 9th International festival for Folk dance in Egom may8-12. ". Strawberry festival a Cisclo May 12. Kayak Competition Marte Lange May 9. Market festival much Olin May 10. Folk festival ,11 the Harbor Blankenberge May 10-17. Saint Rochus folklore Market Chat let May 10-11, International regattas belgian championship Ghent May 10-11. Donkey festival Al May 11. ,,may11. Annual precision in Honor of the holy Mary ,may11. Cat festival a pcs May 11, Denmark bicycle Day Copenhagen in christians org. Palace Square May 10. .,.- 7lh wonderful Copenhagen Marathon Copenhagen May 17. Foreigners will be accepted until race Day. Contact wonderful Copenhagen Marathon cite Grade z2f, dk-1456 Copenhagen a Denmark. Tel. Copenhagen 145714. Finland Helka act Ritala Val Krakoski May 17. Traditional Pentecost procession. Germany British week Schweinfurt May 1s. Day of the open door temp Elshol Airport May 10-11, Kas Kong fast bad Durkheim May 11, great Britain Helston furry dance Helston May 8. Living crafts exhibition Hal Field House Hertfordshire May 11. Bur is Edmunds festival Bury St. Edmunds Maya-22. Banchory festival of scottish music Banchory May 10. London Dollhouse festival Kensington town Hull May 10-11 ,. Spalink classic fishing festival on the shores of Lough tronc in Colenty Fermanagh Northern i Rolanco May 11-17. Iceland Reykjavik festival Reykjavik May 31-unc 17. Italy procession of the turks Potenza May 29. A Folk festival dating from the turkish wars of the 1600s. Luxembourg Echter Nach dancing procession ech Larnach May 19-20. Norway 34th International festival Bergen May 21-june 1. Switzerland Tulip festival pare de 1 Lnda Mendonco Morges until mid May. Geranium Market Basel May 13. Flower festival with big Parade Locarno May 15-18. Domesday Book celebrated this summer with a thoroughness William the conqueror himself would applaud All of England is erupting with summer Long celebrations of the 9dolh birthday of a unique Book called domesday. Domesday is on television in magazines in a Flack of new books. There s j domesday wine domesday umbrellas a domesday Rose. Dozens of towns and cities listed 900 years ago Are celebrating. Two major exhibitions have ust opened in Winchester and London. All this for an inventory. For that s what domesday is King William s inventory of every Inch of the kingdom he conquered in 1066. A scribe wrote nearly 800 years ago that it was called domesday pronounced doomsday because its decisions like those of the last judgment Are like ail Cata logs it s a Dull dry As dust list. Lying under protective Glass in London s domesday 1086-19b6" show it in t even exciting to see no illuminated initials no Golden miniatures just two column pages written in a latin so abbreviated that even scholars need special raining to read it. Yet the Domei Niay Book is is much a National Monument As the Tower of London said or. Geoffrey Martin keeper of the Public records. At the London exhibition. Domesday has been called As much a Cornerstone of our National heritage As the Alloi this summer s events try to explain Why this is so. It takes some explaining. Although it s an inventory of who owned what and How much tax King William could expect domesday is studded with nuggets of everyday life in the England of 10b6. It notes that anyone who made bad Beer in Chester was either put on the dung Stool or paid four i notes that widows were fined much More heavily than Young girls for unlawful sex. It lists one female Ester among the 283,242 people it mentions along with 16 Beck keepers 28,235 slaves and one Gold so very thoroughly did he William have he inquiry carried out says a medieval chronicler an animated figure Speaks his words in the London show that not even one of nor one gallery the dome by Book is been refurbished or the and Ferary exhibition. Cow nor one pig escaped domesday s 2 million words arc so crammed Ullh facts that three computer projects in Australia England and Santa Barbara Calif Are currently probing its data. Yet All of it was completed with astonishing Speed gathered compiled and written by hand in a Monk s scriptorium like the Bare cell reconstructed in the Winchester show within 18 months. The London show is at the Public record office where the domesday Book has been kept since 1s59. The show is to draw 250,000 visitors. The Public record office spent 1 it months preparing the domesday Book for display. Restoration expert peeled away the sheepskin pages and removed glue from five or six previous re bindings with scalpels. They used humidifiers to soften the pages making them easier to turn and patched Icard and missing fragments. Rebound in five volumes for easy handling the domesday Book is now in absolutely perfect condition said Anc Cox principal assistant keeper of publications and Early modern records at he Public record office Britain s National Archive. They look As if they were written asked How Long she thought they would last she replied till Austria Eisenstadt Franz list childhood and youth of a Genius Burgenland Tschon Landes museum my a beginning of september. An exhibit in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the composer s death. Denmark Copenhagen the 1860s in nordic painting Statons museum for Kunst until May 19. Finland Helsinki retrospective Mari Mokko textiles and dress of the past 35 years museum of arts and crafts May August France Paris Salon International pcs beaux arts grand palais until May 25, Germany Kiel Kanada Canada University Library until May 14. Frankfurt Art from Korea Airport gallery until May 25. Berlin Shakespeare Book illustrations posters until May 16. Great Britain London 30 Vears on design Center unit May 31. Italy Naples Gustav Klimt drawings 1879-1917, Art Academy until May 31. The Netherlands Leiden Netherlands Orchid exhibition botanical gardens of the University May 19. Entry fee is 6 guilders about $2.60 for adults half Price for children. The exhibit is open daily 10 .-s . Switzerland Martigny sculpture and paintings by Alberto Giacometti Fonda lion Pierre Gianadda May a nov. 2. 12 strips Magazine May a ask
