O.N.Z.C.D.A™ 2005 Platinum Award Spotlight

 

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O.N.Z.C.D.A™ congratulates our Platinum Award winners on their achievement and thank the web site owners for the opportunity of being able to visit their web sites. Awards earned from this award program were granted according to the criteria on the date site owners applied for award assessment and over time our criteria has become more demanding making our award more difficult to achieve. Changes to web sites since receiving our awards are the sole responsibility of the award recipients. Access the new window image or text links  to visit our winners.

 

•   Poetry from the Heart » awarded January

Welcome to the writings of Bernard Howe. Inside the web site you will find short stories, poetry and a poetry style section where the author give definitions and examples of 18 different styles of poetry. Mr Howe knows his literary business; a great web site for those who wish to study to gain new literary skills. Visitors can spend hours reading some of the most heart - filled poetry ever to be found. Bernard began by writing western poetry or cowboy poems about the old west because of his living in Arizona. He enjoyed hearing and learning about the life of a cowboy and he used a pen name of Sonoran Sam for a while. Bernard tries to be versatile in his writing and about two years ago he started to try his hand at a few short stories. The one about Alaska is his true life adventure of working on the trans-Alaskan pipe line.

 

•   It's Wishcraft!!! » awarded January

This web site has five main subjects - felines ( cats, ) equine ( horses, ) webmaster's tools, 'Bewitched' and Australia. A frequent guest at our award program, we have watched this web site go from strength to strength in overall design and content. Another user friendly, easy use web site where the visitor can spend hours reading all that is offered in part including: more fun and free downloads; in the feline section you will find screen friends, funny pictures and animations plus in the equine section you will find funny horse pictures and horse animations. All this is there for you to right click and save. That is all you have to do. Australia always has been kind of a 'dream country' to the web site owner and here you will find information about the country, the Australian animals, the Aboriginal culture and the typical Aussie icons.

 

•  Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince » awarded April. This web site is now closed.

When Niccolò Machiavelli - Nicolás Maquiavelo - ( 1469-1527 ) in 1513 publishes the work 'The Prince' he commits a politically incorrect act when he reveals, as advice, the mechanisms that are moved behind the governors. Independent of the judgment of the value that their lessons deserve, the same ones show to us as real, the criteria that, without exceptions, guide those who hold the power. Therefore we can understand the importance that the work of the Florentine instilled with the Renaissance spirit has. In this web site you will be able to find a brief biography, a reference of the historical moment in which this book was written, aspects of the city of Florence, significant paragraphs of each chapter of the book and some resources about Political Science and web site design.

 

•  Descendants of Thomas Sims Graves » awarded April. This web site is currently unavailable.

This web site is a compilation of research, family traditions (oral and written), descendants, and numerous historical records of the family of Thomas Sims Graves. The Graves Family is a distinguished line that came to Jamestown, Virginia in 1608. Captain Thomas Graves was among the early settlers of Jamestown. He was in charge of Smythe's One Hundred and was a representative to the first meeting of The House of Burgesses. ( The first legislative assembly. ) Captain Thomas Graves is credited with the building of several churches including Hungar's Episcopal Church on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The church may be the only church that still holds all the original lands granted by the English Crown. While several churches claim to be the oldest English church in North America few have been holding services since 1635.