Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Labels: Birds, Sun-Ae Hwang
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:24 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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If I'm reading the handwriting correctly, I'm seeing "붉은 부리 큰제비 갈매기," or bulgeun buri keun-jaebi galmaegi. A galmaegi is a seagull, and bulgeun means red. Google Translate seems to think this whole phrase means "red-beak tern" or some such. Running the Korean phrase directly through Google's main search page gives the result of "Caspian tern."
Sorry—that's the best I can do for the moment.
(Oh, and 부리/buri means beak.)
Thanks, Kevin, for all the work.
Jeffery Hodges
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The name is correct. Caspian Tern. Good job, Kevin!
Thanks, Jeff and Anonymous!
There should be a second drawing forthcoming. (After all, one good tern deserves another...)
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