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>From NewsScan:
BROADBAND USE UP, BUT U.S. STILL LAGS FAR BEHIND
[In a related story, AOL has indicated it will cease providing broadband
service in in the entire southeastern United States in January.]
A Bush administration report, titled "A Nation Online: Entering the
Broadband Age," notes that the number of Americans using broadband Internet
connections doubled between 2001 and late 2003, but the country as a whole
still lags far behind many other nations, including South Korea, Taiwan and
Canada. The report also points to a widening gap between the digital haves
and have-nots. Only 25% of rural households have a broadband connection,
compared with 40% for urban areas, and only one-in-seven blacks and fewer
than one-in-eight Hispanics lives in a household with high-speed Internet
service. "It shows we continue to have a significant divide between urban
and rural America in the infrastructure of the 21st century," says Gregory
L. Rohde, a top telecom advisor during the Clinton administration.
Significant numbers of rural Americans complained there were no broadband
services available where they live. "This is lousy," says Harris Miller,
head of the Information Technology Association of America. "We're just not
keeping up with our competitors. We're not even keeping up with countries
we don't consider competitors. It's not acceptable." (AP 23 Nov 2004)
<http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041123/D86HL5SG0.html>
[Here's the original AOL story from 12 days ago.]
AOL WINDS DOWN BROADBAND SERVICE
Earlier this year America Online stopped signing up new
broadband customers -- and now it's telling existing broadband
subscribers in nine Southern states that they'll need to find a new
broadband carrier by mid-January, or face being moved to dial-up
service. Broadband customers affected by this decision are residents
of Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,
Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
(AP/Los Angeles Times 12 Nov 2004)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology10nov11,1,1067276.story?
coll=sns-ap-toptechnology>
[and in a related story]
TELCOS THREATENED BY MUNICIPAL WIFI
[Telcos fight back with army of well-paid lobbyists]
Dozens of municipalities around the country are installing WiFi
networks in order to provide citizens with low- or no-cost wireless
Internet access -- a phenomenon that has raised the ire of large telephone
and cable companies, who see their lucrative broadband businesses eroding.
In response, telcos and cable companies are pushing states to pass
legislation that could make such municipal networks illegal. Last week,
after intensive lobbying by Verizon, the Pennsylvania General Assembly
passed a bill with a deeply buried provision that would make it illegal for
any "political subdivision" to provide to the public "for any compensation
any telecommunications services, including advanced and broadband services
within the service territory of a local exchange telecommunications company
operating under a network-modernization plan." Verizon is the local
exchange operator for most of Pennsylvania and is planning a major
fiber-optic cable rollout. Similar bills have passed in Utah, Louisiana and
Florida. Critics say the telco giants' clout is stifling broadband
expansion in the U.S., but the telcos argue it's unfair for them to have to
compete against local governments, which have easy access to capital and
pay no taxes. (Wall Street Journal 23 Nov 2004)
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110116864041881375,00.html> (sub req'd)
[and even greater threats by VOIP]
KAZAA OFFERS FREE VOIP CALLS
The latest version of Kazaa software, distributed by Sharman Networks,
incorporates Internet telephony software from Skype Technologies,
which is also owned by Kazaa founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
That means while people are downloading their music they can also make free
online calls anywhere in the world. (Reuters/CNet.com 22 Nov 2004)
<http://news.com.com/Kazaa+offers+unlimited+free+Internet+phone+calls/2110-7
352_3-5463440.html>
MAKE INCISION HERE: RFID TAG USED IN SURGERY
[Tired of hearing they cut off the wrong leg?]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved use of radio
frequency ID (RFID) tags to ensure that physicians perform the right surgery
on the right patient. Manufactured by SurgiChip Inc., the radio tag is
encoded with the patient's name and the site, type, and date of the surgery;
the patient helps stick the adhesive-backed tag near the site of the surgery
and workers in the hospital's operating room scan the tag to compare that
information with the patient's chart. (AP/San Jose Merury News 19 Nov 2004)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10226986.htm>
[more on RFIDs]
TRACKING SCHOOLCHILDREN WITH COMPUTER TAGS
A number of school districts around the country are implementing
systems that use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to track
the whereabouts of schoolchildren. In Spring, Texas, the district's
28,000 students will be given ID cards with RFID chips in them. Card
readers on the district's school busses track where and when students
get on and off the busses and send that information to police and
school administrators. In the event that a child is reported missing,
authorities would use the system's data to help locate the child,
whether the student was kidnapped or simply went to another student's
home after school. A school district in Buffalo, New York, uses a
similar system at the doors of the school to track attendance. Despite
teething problems of the systems, not to mention concerns over cards
that are lost or traded by mischievous students, supporters said they
offer unique capacities to track students and reassure worried parents.
Critics of the systems, including the American Civil Liberties Union
and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said they elevate security
concerns to the level of paranoia and represent an invasion of privacy.
New York Times, 17 November 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/technology/17tag.html
THE COMING BATTLE: GOOGLE VERSUS MICROSOFT
Already competing against one other in Web search, free e-mail, and
techniques for searching individual computers, Google and Microsoft are
drifting into a war over control of the user experience now dominated by
Microsoft's Windows operating system. Industry-watchers say that Google
could make people less dependent on storing information on their
Microsoft-powered PCs and more dependent on free Web-based e-mail and search
functions accessible anywhere from any device regardless of operating
system, and analyst David Garrity says the real question is whether computer
buyers may one day simply decide that they no longer even need a Microsoft
operating system. (AP/Los Angeles Times 22 Nov 2004)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology11nov22,1,1657103.story?
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BRITISH LIBRARY GOES WIRELESS
Responding to reports showing strong demand for Internet access,
officials at the British Library have announced the implementation of a
wireless network in the library's reading rooms, auditorium,
restaurants, and outdoor area. A study recently showed that 86 percent
of library patrons carry laptops and that 16 percent came to the
library to use it as a business center. Many visitors routinely leave
the library to check their e-mail at a local cafe, and surveys showed
that many people would like to check their e-mail, as well as access
the library catalog, while in the library. The service will cost users
4.50 British pounds per hour or 35 pounds per month. A pilot program
has been available in the library since May, and usage logs indicate
that in that time, the network has seen 1,200 sessions per week, making
it the busiest hot spot in London. BBC, 18 November 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4020241.stm
[Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of statistics will realize
that 86% of any population is not likely to be carrying laptops. . .
this very strange looking statistic is due to the fact that this is
not a library in the sense most of use. It is not open to the public,
other than a few rooms that look more like a museum, which is what it
really is, by most definitions. One actually has to pass a test to
gain entrance. . .to be a "reader." Not only do 86% of the "readers"
bring laptops, but they are incredibly "well-heeled" even by London
standards, as I observed myself when visiting there last month.]
COLLEGE BLOCKS HOTMAIL AND YAHOO TO FIGHT SPAM
Frustrated with the problem of spam and unable to afford antispam
software packages, officials at Guam Community College have implemented
a policy that blocks all mail from Hotmail or Yahoo--favorites with
spammers--from being delivered to college e-mail accounts. Exceptions
are made for return addresses that are on the institution's list of
legitimate addresses. Currently, the college only provides e-mail
accounts to faculty and staff, and many students rely on Hotmail or
Yahoo accounts to keep in touch with faculty or to turn in assignments,
prompting many complaints about the policy. The policy has resulted in
significantly less spam, and the college's technical staff are
spending much less time dealing with the spam that does get through.
Still, many members of the faculty do not support the policy, saying
that whatever benefits it provides do not outweigh the problems it
causes. Joe St. Sauver of the University of Oregon Computing Center and
an expert on spam issues said the tactic of blocking Hotmail and Yahoo
has been tried before but that most institutions dropped it because
they were not happy with the results.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 November 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i13/13a03101.htm
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*Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media
Sir Mark Thatcher, son of "The Iron Lady," British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher, is finally being forced to
answer questions in open court concerning charges that
he was planning a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea,
a country rich in oil.
The Cape High Court ruled today that he must face court
tomorrow [or the next day, depending on sources], and he
may be extradited later from South Africa to face more
direct charges in Equatorial Guinea. This ruling has
finally come after months of legal wrangling since his
arrest last August in his suburban Cape Town home.
Dozens of mercenaries and planners have been arrested
in Equatorial Guinea and in Zimbabwe, where one of Sir
Mark's friends has already been convicted.
In earlier arrests on March 7, about 70 men were taken
at the Harare airport, mostly South Africans led by
former SAS officer Simon Mann, a graduate of Eton.
Most of these have been charged with violations of
South Africa's foreign military assistance act and
other charges are pending in other countries.
It would appear all involved deny any participation
in the failed coup attempt, including Severo Moto,
who mysteriously appeared in nearby Mali just before
the coup attempt, apparently ready to be the new leader
if the right-wing network of businessmen had been
successful in taking over the country. Mr. Moto has
been reported to have been involved in several previous
such failed coup attempts, including one in which he
was arrested aboard a boat containing military supplies
for one of the previous events in 1997. Government
sources in Spain confirm Mr. Moto's involvement in
these events over the years.
Apparently one of Thatcher's friends has already been
convicted in Zimbabwe.
"Clockwork Orange" Medical Plan Finally Outlawed By Chinese
The Chinese announced that they will no longer be supporting
medical testing on hundreds of human beings in which they
remove or disable the portions of the brain receptive to
certain drugs. This technology was inherited from Russia,
where no such annoucement has been heard.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
>From Jim Carrey:
"Prozac is like a low level of despair."
"Everything is just OK."
"You're not getting any answers."
"People need motivation to do anything.
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
*PREDICTION OF THE WEEK
We will find that Russia only signed the Kyoto accords
to make Bush look bad for not signing, and to gain an
earlier membership in the World Trade Organization [WTO].
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Martha Stewart made $10-$20 million this week, even in jail,
due to her ownership of millions of shares of K-Mart, which
jumped in price when the Sears merger was announced.
Camden, NJ, named "US Most Dangerous City."
[Camden is just across from Phildephia, PA]
Newton, MA, Boston suburb, named the safest.
Murder rate is 0 in Newton, highest in Camden.
$1 of each $7 in the U.S. is spent on health care. 14%
Housing for those above the povertey level equals 20%
Housing for those around the poverty level equals 30%
Housing for those below the poverty level equals 40%
Transportation costs for those above poverty lines 20%
Transportation costs for those below poverty lines 40%
Obviously these studies aren't all from the same year
using the same information base or we would run 100%+
without much effort; however, it should be duly noted
that for those under the poverty line, the sum of all
food, housing, and transportation leaves little room.
Clothing, education, etc., add up to very little.
Back to health care, it all started during the Reagan years:
What Americans spend on health care increased 117% between 1980-1988.
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Robert's Rules of Order, by Henry M. Robert 9097
[Subtitle: Pocket Manual of Rules Of Order For Deliberative Assemblies]
[Updated edition of: etext05/8rror10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/9/0/9/9097 ]
[Files: 9097.txt; 9097-8.txt]
The Face And The Mask, by Robert Barr 8681
[Updated edition of: etext05/8fmsk10.txt]
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[Files: 8681.txt; 8681-8.txt]
Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point, by H. Irving Hancock 6426
[Updated edition of: etext04/dckpr10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/6/4/2/6426 ]
[Files: 6426.txt]
Their Silver Wedding Journey, by William Dean Howells 4646
[Updated edition of: etext03/wh4sw11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/6/4/4646 ]
[Files: 4646.txt]
The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete, by William Dean Howells 4645
[Updated edition of: etext03/wh3lh10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/6/4/4645 ]
[Files: 4645.txt]
A Hazard of New Fortunes, by William Dean Howells 4600
[Updated edition of: etext03/wh6nf11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/6/0/4600 ]
[Files: 4600.txt]
Ragged Lady, Complete, by William Dean Howells 4270
[Updated edition of: etext03/wh3rl10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/2/7/4270 ]
[Files: 4270.txt]
Literary Friends, by William Dean Howells 4201
Contents:
Biographical
My First Visit to New England
First Impressions of Literary New York
Roundabout to Boston
Literary Boston As I Knew It
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The White Mr. Longfellow
Studies of Lowell
Cambridge Neighbors
A Belated Guest
My Mark Twain
[Updated edition of: etext03/whelf10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/4/2/0/4201 ]
[Files: 4201.txt; 4201-h.htm]
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, by Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton 3740
[Title: The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete]
Contents:
Memoirs Of Napoleon Bonaparte, by Louis Antoine F. De Bourrienne
Recollections Of The Private Life Of Napoleon, by Constant
Memoirs Of The Court Of St. Cloud, by Stewarton
[Updated edition of: etext03/napol11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/7/4/3740 ]
[Files: 3740.txt]
Ragged Lady, Part 2, by William Dean Howells 3406
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh2rl11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/4/0/3406 ]
[Files: 3406.txt]
Ragged Lady, Part 1, by William Dean Howells 3405
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh1rl11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/4/0/3405 ]
[Files: 3405.txt]
April Hopes, by William Dean Howells 3404
[Updated edition of: etext02/whahp11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/4/0/3404 ]
[Files: 3404.txt]
First Visit to New England and Others, by William Dean Howells 3398
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Contents:
Biographical
My First Visit to New England
First Impressions of Literary New York]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whvne11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3398 ]
[Files: 3398.txt]
Roundabout to Boston, by William Dean Howells 3397
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whrtb11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3397 ]
[Files: 3397.txt]
Literary Boston, by William Dean Howells 3396
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whbos11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3396 ]
[Files: 3396.txt]
Oliver Wendell Holmes, by William Dean Howells 3395
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whowh11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3395 ]
[Files: 3395.txt]
The White Mr. Longfellow, by William Dean Howells 3394
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whlng11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3394 ]
[Files: 3394.txt]
Studies of Lowell, by William Dean Howells 3393
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whlow11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3393 ]
[Files: 3393.txt]
Cambridge Neighbors, by William Dean Howells 3392
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whcbn11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3392 ]
[Files: 3392.txt]
A Belated Guest, by William Dean Howells 3391
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whabg11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3391 ]
[Files: 3391.txt]
My Mark Twain, by William Dean Howells 3390
[From: "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"]
[Updated edition of: etext03/whmmt11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/9/3390 ]
[Files: 3390.txt]
Literature and Life, Entire, by William Dean Howells 3389
[Updated edition of: etext02/whlal11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3389 ]
[Files: 3389.txt]
The Man of Letters as a Man of Business, by William Dean Howells 3388
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whmlb11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3388 ]
[Files: 3388.txt]
The Confessions of a Summer Colonist, by William Dean Howells 3387
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whcsc11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3387 ]
[Files: 3387.txt]
Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor, by William Dean Howells 3386
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whtyc11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3386 ]
[Files: 3386.txt]
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel, by William Dean Howells 3385
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whldh11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3385 ]
[Files: 3385.txt]
Some Anomalies of the Short Story, by William Dean Howells 3384
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whass11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3384 ]
[Files: 3384.txt]
Spanish Prisoners of War, by William Dean Howells 3383
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whspw11.txt and whspw11h.htm]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3383 ]
[Files: 3383.txt; 3383-h.htm]
American Literary Centers, by William Dean Howells 3382
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whalc11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3382 ]
[Files: 3382.txt]
The Standard Household-Effect Company, by William Dean Howells 3381
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whshe11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3381 ]
[Files: 3381.txt]
Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer, by William Dean Howells 3380
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whvan11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/8/3380 ]
[Files: 3380.txt]
Short Stories and Essays, by William Dean Howells 3379
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Contents:
Worries of a Winter Walk
Summer Isles of Eden
Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
A Circus in the Suburbs
A She Hamlet
The Midnight Platoon
The Beach at Rockaway
Sawdust in the Arena
At a Dime Museum
American Literature in Exile
The Horse Show
The Problem of the Summer
Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago
From New York into New England
The Art of the Adsmith
The Psychology of Plagiarism
Puritanism in American Fiction
The What and How in Art
Politics in American Authors
Storage
"Floating down the River on the O-hi-o"
[Updated edition of: etext02/whsse11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3379 ]
[Files: 3379.txt]
My Literary Passions, by William Dean Howells 3378
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whmlp11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3378 ]
[Files: 3378.txt]
Criticism And Fiction, by William Dean Howells 3377
[From: "Literature and Life"]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whcaf11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3377 ]
[Files: 3377.txt]
The Landlord at Lion's Head, Volume 2, by William Dean Howells 3376
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh2lh11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3376 ]
[Files: 3376.txt]
The Landlord at Lion's Head, Volume 1, by William Dean Howells 3375
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh1lh11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3375 ]
[Files: 3375.txt]
The March Family Trilogy, Complete, by William Dean Howells 3374
[Contents:
Their Wedding Journey
The Outset
A Midsummer-day's Dream
The Night Boat
A Day's Railroading
The Enchanted City, and Beyond
Niagara
Down the St. Lawrence
The Sentiment of Montreal
Homeward and Home
Niagara Revisited Twelve Years after Their Wedding
A Hazard of New Fortunes
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Their Silver Wedding Journey
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3]
[Updated edition of: etext02/whemf11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3374 ]
[Files: 3374.txt; 3374-h.htm]
Their Silver Wedding Journey, Part III,by William Dean Howells 3373
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh3sw11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3373 ]
[Files: 3373.txt]
Their Silver Wedding Journey, Part II,by William Dean Howells 3372
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh2sw11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3372 ]
[Files: 3372.txt]
Their Silver Wedding Journey, Part I, by William Dean Howells 3371
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh1sw11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3371 ]
[Files: 3371.txt]
A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth, by William Dean Howells 3370
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh5nf11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/7/3370 ]
[Files: 3370.txt]
A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fourth, by William Dean Howells 3369
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh4nf11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3369 ]
[Files: 3369.txt]
A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Third, by William Dean Howells 3368
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh3nf11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3368 ]
[Files: 3368.txt]
A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Second, by William Dean Howells 3367
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh2nf11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3367 ]
[Files: 3367.txt]
A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part First, by William Dean Howells 3366
[Updated edition of: etext02/wh1nf11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3366 ]
[Files: 3366.txt]
Their Wedding Journey, by William Dean Howells 3365
[Updated edition of: etext02/whtwj11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3365 ]
[Files: 3365.txt]
Dr. Breen's Practice, by William Dean Howells 3364
[Updated edition of: etext02/whdbp11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3364 ]
[Files: 3364.txt]
Fennel and Rue, by William Dean Howells 3363
[Updated edition of: etext02/whfar11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3363 ]
[Files: 3363.txt]
The Kentons, by William Dean Howells 3362
[Updated edition of: etext02/whken11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/6/3362 ]
[Files: 3362.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Complete, by Eugene Sue 3350
[Updated edition of: etext02/es12v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/5/3350 ]
[Files: 3350.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book XI, by Eugene Sue 3349
[Updated edition of: etext02/es11v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3349 ]
[Files: 3349.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book X, by Eugene Sue 3348
[Updated edition of: etext02/es10v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3348 ]
[Files: 3348.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book IX, by Eugene Sue 3347
[Updated edition of: etext02/es09v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3347 ]
[Files: 3347.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book VIII, by Eugene Sue 3346
[Updated edition of: etext02/es08v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3346 ]
[Files: 3346.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book VII, by Eugene Sue 3345
[Updated edition of: etext02/es07v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3345 ]
[Files: 3345.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book VI, by Eugene Sue 3344
[Updated edition of: etext02/es06v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3344 ]
[Files: 3344.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book V, by Eugene Sue 3343
[Updated edition of: etext02/es05v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3343 ]
[Files: 3343.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book IV, by Eugene Sue 3342
[Updated edition of: etext02/es04v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3342 ]
[Files: 3342.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book III, by Eugene Sue 3341
[Updated edition of: etext02/es03v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3341 ]
[Files: 3341.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book II, by Eugene Sue 3340
[Updated edition of: etext02/es02v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/4/3340 ]
[Files: 3340.txt]
The Wandering Jew, Book I, by Eugene Sue 3339
[Updated edition of: etext02/es01v11.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/3/3/3/3339 ]
[Files: 3339.txt]
The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix, by Honore de Balzac 1968
[Updated edition of: etext99/hciaa10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/9/6/1968 ]
[Files: 1968.txt]
Finished, by H. Rider Haggard 1724
[Updated edition of: etext99/fnshd10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/7/2/1724 ]
[Files: 1724.txt]
The Illustrious Gaudissart, by Honore de Balzac 1474
[Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley]
[Updated edition of: etext98/1gdsr10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/7/1474 ]
[Files: 1474.txt]
Njal's Saga, by Unknown Icelanders 597
[Updated edition of: etext96/njals10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/5/9/597]
[Files: 597.txt]
.:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements:
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Gordon Keith, by Thomas Nelson Page 14068
[Illus.: George Wright]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14068 ]
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Punch, Vol. 101, November 7, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 14067
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/6/14067 ]
[Files: 14067.txt; 14067-8.txt; 14067-h.htm]
Everyday Foods in War Time, by Mary Swartz Rose 14066
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14066 ]
[Files: 14066.txt; 14066-8.txt; 14066-h.htm; ]
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard, by Daniel Defoe 14065
[Subtitle: Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and
Escapes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14065 ]
[Files: 14065.txt; 14065-h.htm; ]
Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam, by H. E. E. Hayes 14064
[Author AKA: Herbert Edward Elton Hayes; H. E. Elton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14064 ]
[Files: 14064.txt; 14064-h.htm; ]
Reis naar de Nieuwe Hebriden en de Salomons-eilanden, by Alfred Hagen 14063
[From: "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/6/14063 ]
[Files: 14063-8.txt; 14063-h.htm]
Miscellanies, by Oscar Wilde 14062
[Editor: Robert Ross]
[Also Contains: Bibliography of Wilde's works, by Stuart Mason)
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14062 ]
[Files: 14062.txt; 14062-h.htm]
Lady Byron Vindicated, by Harriet Beecher Stowe 14061
[Subtitle: A History of the Byron Controversy from its beginning in
1816 to the Present Time]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/6/14061 ]
[Files: 14061.txt; 14061-h.htm]
Mr. Britling Sees It Through, by H. G. Wells 14060
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/6/14060 ]
[Files: 14060.txt; 14060-8.txt; 14060-h.htm]
Le Roi des Etudiants, by Eugene Dick 14059
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14059 ]
[Files: 14059-8.txt; 14059-h.htm]
Readings on Fascism and National Socialism, Ed. by Alan Swallow 14058
[Subtitle: Selected by Members of the Department of Philosophy,
University of Colorado]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/5/14058 ]
[Files: 14058.txt; 14058-8.txt; 14058-h.htm; ]
Punch, Vol. 101. October 24, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 14057
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14057 ]
[Files: 14057.txt; 14057-8.txt; 14057-h.htm]
The French Impressionists (1860-1900), by Camille Mauclair 14056
[Tr.: P. G. Konady]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/5/14056 ]
[Files: 14056.txt; 14056-8.txt; 14056-h.htm; ]
Food Guide for War Service at Home, by Blunt, Swain, Powdermaker 14055
[Subtitle: Prepared under the Direction of the United States Food
Administration in Co-Operation with the United States Department of
Agriculture and the Bureau of Education with a Preface by Herbert Hoover]
[Author: Katharine Blunt, Frances L. Swain, and Florence Powdermaker]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/5/14055 ]
[Files: 14055.txt; 14055-8.txt; 14055-h.htm; ]
Max, by Katherine Cecil Thurston 14054
[Illustrated by Frank Craig]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14054 ]
[Files: 14054.txt; 14054-8.txt; 14054-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 101. October 17, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand n 14053
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14053 ]
[Files: 14053.txt; 14053-8.txt; 14053-h.htm]
Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2), by John Morley 14052
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14052 ]
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The End Of The World, by Edward Eggleston 14051
[Subtitle: A Love Story]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14051 ]
[Files: 14051.txt; 14051-8.txt; 14051-h.htm]
Daniel Hjort, by Josef Julius Wecksell 14050
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/5/14050 ]
[Files: 14050-8.txt]
The Pointing Man, by Marjorie Douie 14049
[Subtitle: A Burmese Mystery]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14049 ]
[Files: 14049.txt; 14049-8.txt; 14049-h.htm]
The Nameless Castle, by Maurus Jokai 14048
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14048 ]
[Files: 14048.txt; 14048-8.txt; 14048-h.htm]
Essays on the Stage, by Anonymous [Ed.: H. T. Swedenberg, Jr.] 14047
[Title: A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698); and
The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/4/14047 ]
[Files: 14047.txt; 14047-h.htm; ]
Punch, Vol. 101, September 26, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 14046
[Editor: F. C. Burnand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/4/14046 ]
[Files: 14046.txt; 14046-8.txt; 14046-h.htm; ]
At a Winter's Fire, by Bernard Edward J. Capes 14045
[Author AKA: Bernard Edward Joseph Capes]
Contents:
The Moon Stricken
Jack and Jill
The Vanishing House
Dark Dignum
William Tyrwhitt's "Copy"
A Lazy Romance
Black Venn
An Eddy on the Floor
Dinah's Mammoth
The Black Reaper
A Voice from the Pit
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/4/14045 ]
[Files: 14045.txt; 14045-8.txt; ]
The Angels of Mons, by Arthur Machen 14044
[Subtitle: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/4/14044 ]
[Files: 14044.txt; 14044-8.txt; ]
Een kijkje op de Tentoonstelling te Milaan, by Ph. J. Ketner 14043
[From: "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14043 ]
[Files: 14043.txt; 14043-8.txt; 14043-h.htm]
Een vliegreisje in het Land der Rijzende Zon, by T. Tj. de Boer 14042
[Subtitle: From "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14042 ]
[Files: 14042.txt; 14042-8.txt; 14042-h.htm]
Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, Jan. 3, 1885 14041
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14041 ]
[Files: 14041.txt; 14041-8.txt; 14041-h.htm]
Household Gods, by Aleister Crowley 14040
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/4/14040 ]
[Files: 14040.txt; 14040-page-images ]
Through Stained Glass, by George Agnew Chamberlain 14039
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14039 ]
[Files: 14039.txt; 14039-8.txt; 14039-0.txt]
La Daniella, Vol. II, by George Sand 14038
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14038 ]
[Files: 14038-8.txt]
The Life of Hugo Grotius, by Charles Butler 14037
[Subtitle: With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and
Literary History of the Netherlands]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/3/14037 ]
[Files: 14037.txt; 14037-8.txt; 14037-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20040903124154butler]
Lippincott's Magazine Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873, by Various 14036
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14036 ]
[Files: 14036.txt; 14036-8.txt; 14036-h.htm]
Mimmi Paavaliina, by Maiju Lassila 14035
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14035 ]
[Files: 14035-8.txt]
King Alfred's Viking, by Charles W. Whistler 14034
[Subtitle: A Story of the First English Fleet]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14034 ]
[Files: 14034.txt; 14034-h.htm]
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4), by Plutarch 14033
[Subtitle: Translated from the Greek with Notes and a Life of Plutarch]
[Tr.: Aubrey Stewart and George Long]
Contents:
Life of Plutarch
Life of Theseus
Life of Romulus
Comparison of Theseus and Romulus
Life of Lykurgus
Life of Numa
Comparison of Numa with Lykurgus
Life of Solon
Life of Poplicola
Comparison of Solon and Poplicola
Life of Themistokles
Life of Camillus
Life of Perikles
Life of Fabius Maximus
Comparison of Perikles and Fabius Maximius
Life of Alkibiades
Life of Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Comparison between Alkibiades and Coriolanus
Life of Timoleon
Life of Aemilius
Comparison of Paulus Aemilius and Timoleon
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/3/14033 ]
[Files: 14033.txt; 14033-8.txt; 14033-h.htm; ]
An Enquiry. . .Concerning the Discovery of America, by John Williams 14032
[Title: An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the
Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year,
1170]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/3/14032 ]
[Files: 14032.txt; 14032-8.txt; 14032-h.htm; ]
Colloquies of Erasmus, Vol. I, by Erasmus, Ed. by Rev. E. Johnson 14031
[Translated By N. Bailey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14031 ]
[Files: 14031.txt; 14031-8.txt]
Un drame au Labrador, by Eugene Dick 14030
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/3/14030 ]
[Files: 14030.txt; 14030-8.txt; 14030-h.htm]
Chateau and Country Life in France, by Mary King Waddington 14029
[Author AKA: Mary Alsop King Waddington]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14029 ]
[Files: 14029.txt; 14029-8.txt; ]
Uber das Aussterben der Naturvolker, by Georg Gerland 14028
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/2/14028 ]
[Files: 14028.txt; 14028-8.txt; 14028-h.htm]
Abydos, by Emile Amelineau 14027
[From: "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/2/14027 ]
[Files: 14027.txt; 14027-8.txt; 14027-h.htm]
Spiritual Life and the Word of God, by Emanuel Swedenborg 14026
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14026 ]
[Files: 14026.txt; ]
Mount Music, by E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross 14025
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14025 ]
[Files: 14025.txt; 14025-8.txt; 14025-h.htm; ]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. 566 14024
[September 15, 1832]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14024 ]
[Files: 14024.txt; 14024-8.txt; 14024-h.htm; ]
Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone, by Cecil B. Harley 14023
[Subtitle: Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer...
To Which Is Added His Autobiography Complete As Dictated By Himself]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14023 ]
[Files: 14023.txt; 14023-8.txt; 14023-h.htm; ]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. 479 14022
[March 5, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/2/14022 ]
[Files: 14022.txt; 14022-8.txt; 14022-h.htm; ]
Lord of the World, by Robert Hugh Benson 14021
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/2/14021 ]
[Files: 14021.txt]
The Works of Horace, by Horace [Tr.: C. Smart] 14020
[Translated Literally Into English Prose]
[Revised by Theodore Alois Buckley]
Contents:
The First Book Of The Odes Of Horace.
The Second Book Of The Odes Of Horace.
The Third Book Of The Odes Of Horace.
The Fourth Book Of The Odes Of Horace.
The Book Of The Epodes Of Horace.
The First Book Of The Satires Of Horace.
The Second Book Of The Satires Of Horace.
The First Book Of The Epistles Of Horace.
The Second Book Of The Epistles Of Horace.
Horace's Book Upon The Art Of Poetry
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/2/14020 ]
[Files: 14020.txt; 14020-h.htm]
The Harvard Classics, Vol. 49, Epic and Saga, Ed. by Charles W. Eliot 14019
Contents:
The Song Of Roland [Tr.: John O'Hagan]
The Destruction Of Da Derga's Hostel [Tr.: Whitley Stokes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/1/14019 ]
[Files: 14019.txt; 14019-8.txt; 14019-h.htm]
Marie, by Laura E. Richards 14018
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/1/14018 ]
[Files: 14018.txt]
Clara A. Swain, M.D., by Mrs. Robert Hoskins 14017
[Subtitle: First Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14017 ]
[Files: 14017.txt; 14017-h.htm; ]
John Knox and the Reformation, by Andrew Lang 14016
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14016 ]
[Files: 14016.txt; 14016-h.htm]
The Discovery of Witches, by Matthew Hopkins 14015
[Subtitle: In Answer to Severall Queries, Lately Delivered to the
Judges of Assize for the County of Norfolk. And now published By
Matthew Hopkins, Witch-finder, for the Benefit of the Whole Kingdome]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14015 ]
[Files: 14015.txt; 14015-h.htm; ]
Dangers on the Ice Off the Coast of Labrador, by Anonymous 14014
[Subtitle: With Some Interesting Particulars Respecting the Natives of
that Country]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14014 ]
[Files: 14014.txt; 14014-h.htm; ]
Almoran and Hamet, by John Hawkesworth [AKA: H. Greville] 14013
[Subtitle: An Oriental Tale in Two Volumes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14013 ]
[Files: 14013.txt; 14013-h.htm; ]
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland, by George Forrest Browne 14012
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/1/14012 ]
[Files: 14012.txt; 14012-8.txt; 14012-h.htm]
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"For those wishing to know. . .", David Price provides elucidation on a
couple of this week's postings:
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About #14062, Miscellanies, by Oscar Wilde:
It's a collection of odds and ends by Oscar Wilde. We have a good number
of them already in Gutenberg but some new ones are here, together with an
introduction by Wilde's friend Robert Ross.
About #14061, Lady Byron Vindicated, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, David sends
along the following note submitted by volunteer Les Bowler:
The poet, George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron married Anne Milbanke in 1815,
but the marriage was short-lived -- Anne returned to her parents with a
daughter of the marriage after about a year and didn't see her husband
again. She seems to have been a formal, rather religious person, while
Byron had a reputation for scandalous behaviour both before and after the
marriage, and rumours abounded as to the causes of the split.
In 1869, after both Lord Byron and Anne Milbanke were dead, and following
the publication of a book by the Countess Guiccioli, the mistress of Lord
Byron, certain English periodicals published articles laying the blame
entirely upon Lady Byron, and branding her "a liar" and "the vilest of
criminals" -- all this with virtually no response from Lady Byron's
friends.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who had known Lady Byron for some years
before her death in 1860, then felt it her duty to publish "Lady Byron
Vindicated" in defence of her late friend. The book proved to be
controversial, with Lord Byron's friends denying many of the allegations,
including incest, referred to by Mrs. Stowe, but on the whole it seems a
quite convincing explanation of the reasons for the break-down of the
marriage.
~ ~ ~
About #14016, John Knox and the Reformation, by Andrew Lang:
For those interested: John Knox was a famous Scottish protestant who was
very involved in the politics of the reformation. Until Lang wrote this
book it was established practise to hold Knox as a sort of saint. In
this book Lang goes through Knox's life, writings and works - and paints
a very unflattering picture of him.
As an aside: outside of religion Knox is best known, or rather imfamous,
for writing "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous
regiment of Women" - a text which is available from Project Gutenberg.
[EBook #9660 -- Ed.]
For another opinion on John Knox, folk might like to read Robert Louis
Stevenson's article on "Knox and His Relations to Women" - which appears
in the book "Familiar Studies of Men and Books" - again available from
Gutenberg. [EBook #425 -- Ed.]
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>From NewsScan:
TELECOMMUTING TAKES OFF AT TECH FIRMS
Thanks to better technology, such as collaborative software
applications, a number of technology firms are giving more workers
flexibility in how -- and where -- they do their jobs. When set up
properly, telecommuting and flextime are good for both employers and
workers, says Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute:
"Providing flexibility isn't a perk. Flexible work (options) are part of
effective companies." In fact, studies on telecommuting show that it
increases workers' average productivity by 5% to 20%, says Jack Nilles,
president of telecommuting consulting firm JALA International. "Most
offices are dysfunctional. Interruptions are unbelievable," says Nilles,
who adds that the number of people who work at least one day every couple
of weeks away from the office is about 30 million this year, up 10% from
last year. IBM is a case in point: In 2001, about a third of IBM employees
worked outside the office at least some of the time. That figure has
climbed to 42%, says Maria Ferris, manager of work/life and women's
initiatives at Big Blue. Still, there are challenges to overcome: Top on
the list is ensuring that company data isn't at risk when employees work
from home, followed by convincing managers to supervise based on results
rather than face-time, and ensuring that remote employees feel connected.
(CNet News.com 15 Nov 2004)
<http://news.com.com/At+tech+firms%2C+time+again+for+flextime/2100-1022_3-54
48994.html>
UNIVERSAL AND SNOCAP MAKE MUSIC TOGETHER [NAPSTER LIVES!]
Vivendi Universal has agreed to license its catalog of 150,000 songs
to Snocap, a new venture headed up by Napster founder Shawn Fanning. It's
unclear how Snocap's peer-to-peer service will work, but people close to
the deal say one possibility is that the service would allow users to share
a low-quality copy of a licensed song for free but would require a fee for
access to a high-quality version. The other three big labels -- Warner
Music, EMI Group and Sony BMG -- all are seeking ways to license legitimate
copies of their songs to peer-to-peer network, but Universal's move marks
the first such partnering deal. (Wall Street Journal 15 Nov 2004)
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110030801621473060,00.html> (sub req'd)
CISCO TO BUILD CHINA'S NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK
[Remember our predictions about China?]
[Also story below that India has more
cell phones than land lines. Notice in
this China article no mention is made of
wired versus wireless.]
Cisco Systems has been chosen by China Telecommunications Corp.,
China's biggest telecom company, to build China's next-generation backbone
network. Known as the China Telecom Internet Protocol Next-Generation
Network, it will connect more than 200 cities and allow China's users to
connect to overseas networks through virtual private network (VPN) services.
The next-generation network is part of a plan by China Telecom to become one
of the world's largest providers of Internet protocol services within the
next two decades. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 12 Nov 2004)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10164520.htm>
STUDYING NANOTECH RISKS
[We heartily recommend you read "The Diamond Age," by Neal Stephenson,
and "Engines of Creation," by Eric K. Drexler to see the potential in
several very interesting perspectives.]
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $4 million in grants to
a dozen universities to study the biological and medical implications of
nanotechnology, which has already yielded such products as carbon "nanotube"
electrical wires; cages of atoms that can capture pollutants in water and
soil; and catalysts that reduce manufacturers' dependence upon caustic
chemicals. Recognizing that these materials are small enough to enter the
lungs (and perhaps even be absorbed through the skin and travel to the brain
and other organs), EPA official Paul Gilman explained: "This emerging field
has the potential to transform environmental protection, but at the same
time we must understand whether nanomaterials in the environment can have an
adverse impact." Barbara Karn of the EPA's Office of Research and
Development says the projects funded by the new grants will do "infinitely
more" on nanotech safety than has ever been done previously.
(Washington Post 11 Nov 2004)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43763-2004Nov11.html>
AOL WINDS DOWN BROADBAND SERVICE
[Why just the Southeast? Isn't AOL headquartered in Virginia?]
[Will this bring back the "Digital Divide?" In only two months?]
Earlier this year America Online stopped signing up new broadband
customers -- and now it's telling existing broadband subscribers in nine
Southern states that they'll need to find a new broadband carrier by
mid-January, or face being moved to dial-up service. Broadband customers
affected by this decision are residents of Florida, Kentucky, Georgia,
Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South
Carolina. (AP/Los Angeles Times 12 Nov 2004)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/ats-ap_technology10nov11,1,1067276.story?
coll=sns-ap-toptechnology>
MICROSOFT CRACKS DOWN ON XBOX MODIFICATIONS
Cameron Ferroni, Microsoft's general manager for the Xbox software
platform, says the company's not planning to sue individual users but that
it does want to stop users of the Xbox Live online service from modifying
their machines to improve their performance at games. Ferroni believes it's
important that Microsoft prevent cheating on Xbox Live (where multiple
players can take part in games) and says that the company's goal is to make
sure there's a level playing field for game players.
(AP/San Jose Mercury News 15 Nov 2004)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10189248.htm>
SOFTWARE FREE AS THE SUN, FROM SUN
Sun Microsystems, which spent $500 million developing its next-generation
operating system, will offer its Solaris 10 operating system free,
in hopes of expanding both its customer base and the number of
software developers who write programs for it. To generate revenue,
the company will charge subscription fees for Solaris support and service
programs. Sun chief executive Scott McNealy says: "Hewlett Packard sells
a printer at a low price and makes a lot of money on printer cartridges.
Gillette gives you the razor and makes a lot of money on the blades.
There are different ways to drive market penetration." (AP 15 Nov 2004)
<http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041115/D86CA3700.html>
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>From Edupage
STRONG SHOWING FOR ONLINE EDUCATION
According to a new report by the Sloan Consortium, significantly more
students are enrolling in online courses, and the perceived quality of
online education is also rising. The study, which is in its second
year, showed a 19 percent increase in the number of students enrolled
in an online course. The authors of the report expect that number to
grow by another 24 percent in the next year. Growth rates among
private, for-profit institutions outpaces others by a factor of almost
two to one. The study also showed increasing confidence in the quality
of online education, with more than 40 percent of respondents saying
they believe students are at least as satisfied with online courses as
with classroom instruction. According to Jeff Seaman, chief information
officer for the Sloan Consortium and coauthor of the study, small
baccalaureate institutions are the slowest to embrace online learning.
Administrators at those institutions, he said, are more likely to
support small, on-campus classes for the type of educational experience
they provide.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 November 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/11/2004111503n.htm
[and. . . .]
S. KOREA CONSIDERS BANNING N. KOREAN COLLEGE WEB SITE
Officials from South Korea are reportedly considering forbidding access
to the Web site of North Korea's Kim Il-sung University in an effort
to shield computer users in South Korea from communist ideology. Police
in South Korea have asked the government to block access to a total of
31 Web sites under the country's National Security Law, which is
currently being debated in parliament. South Korea's president wants
the law, which places restrictions on contact with the north, to be
revised or thrown out. Supporters of the law said it remains necessary
to protect those in the south from the propaganda of North Korea, which
has never officially rescinded its call for taking over South Korea by
force. According to an unnamed South Korean police official, "We need
to block access to resources of one-sided information or knowledge
which ordinary people can obtain easily."
Reuters, 12 November 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6800390
SUN OFFERS NEW SOLARIS FOR FREE
Sun Microsystems announced that its upcoming Solaris 10 operating
system will be available near the end of January and said it will offer
a free version of the software. Sun's move reflects a growing practice
among vendors such as Linux distributor Red Hat: offer software in a
free version or a flagship version that includes licensing and support
fees. An official from Sun said that under the new pricing arrangement,
"Solaris will be less expensive in any category than our Linux
competitors." Sun also hopes to appeal to customers on the basis of its
being able to offer hardware, software, and support from a single
vendor. According to IDC, Solaris is currently running on about one
million computers around the world. Analyst Jean S. Bozman said,
"They're looking for ubiquity."
New York Times, 15 November 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/technology/15sun.html
YAHOO UPS STORAGE LIMITS ON E-MAIL ACCOUNTS
In an effort to stay competitive with Microsoft's Hotmail and
Google's Gmail, Yahoo has announced an increase in the amount of free
storage it allows for its e-mail customers. Yahoo users now have up to
250 megabytes of free space--the same as Hotmail customers--up from the
former limit of 100 megabytes. Gmail offers 1,000 megabytes of free
storage space but is currently in testing and only available by
invitation or to existing account holders. Brad Garlinghouse, vice
president of communications products at Yahoo, said, "[Gmail] really
has raised the game for everyone, and that's good for consumers."
Yahoo also said it has improved its technology for verifying the
identities of those sending e-mail and its technology for searching
e-mail content.
Washington Post, 15 November 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50385-2004Nov15.html
CAMPUS GROUPS EDUCATE STUDENTS ABOUT COPYRIGHT
Students at about a dozen colleges and universities have started
organizations called Free Culture groups to educate other students
about copyright and fight what they see as a tilting of the law to
favor copyright owners. The first Free Culture group was started by
Swarthmore College student Nelson Pavlosky, known for his successful
legal challenge to Diebold Election Systems' use of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act in trying to suppress leaked company memos.
Pavlosky and other Free Culture organizers want college-age people to
understand how copyrights have changed in the electronic era,
particularly with respect to legislation such as the proposed Induce
Act. Pavlosky acknowledged that a danger of the Free Culture groups is
that participants will simply be seen as "rich white kids who want free
music." Jessica Litman, a law professor at Wayne State University and a
speaker at a meeting of the Free Culture groups, noted that copyright
law is traditionally written by lobbyists who represent copyright
owners and said that consumers should be included in that process.
Wired News, 10 November 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65616,00.html
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*Headline News Avoided By Most Of The Major U.S. Media
Apparently Russia's approval of the Kyoto accords,
which were stalled when President Bush reversed US
policies, were mostly a ploy to gain membership in
the World Trade Organization [WTO].
"Once you figure out what's going on, it's interesting to compare all
the countries. The big news story of the day is obviously `Insurrection
will not end in Fallujah' ... in every country except the USA and
Spain, where it's not mentioned at all. Why Spain?"
*
We've all heard the some countries could leapfrog
right over the wired to the wireless, but no one
has admitted this could be done on a large scale
until now. . .India in reporting more cell phones
than land lines. [See above story on China.]
[More on China]
A controversial system of treating drug addiction
by removing the portion of the brain responsible
for cravings has been banned. One side effect
feared most was the loss of the sex drive, too.
This treatment was invented by Russian doctors,
and apparently had only a 50% success rate in
China, and only 60% elsewhere.
*
NASA RETALIATES AGAINST X-PRIZE WINNER
November 17, 2004, off the coast of California
In an effort to reclaim some of the fame lost by NASA
with the various failures of the space shuttle and now
with the advent of commercially oriented spacecraft,
NASA decided to unveil its X-43A scramjet, short for
supersonic ramjet.
The plane, earlier versions of which graced magazine
covers many years ago but which were then hushed up,
travelled nearly 7,000 miles per hour, over twice as
fast as the SR-71A "Blackhawk" spy plane did when it
set an earlier record of 3,000 miles coast to coast
when it was retired from service and finally unveiled.
The unmanned plane was part of a three-stage effort
in which a B-52 bomber carried the plane with attached
booster rocket pack to a high altitude, then launched
the the plane via the booster, and finally the plane
separated from the booster and soared into the record
books to a speed of Mach 9.6, or nearly 7,000 mph in
a self-powered flight that lasts only about 10 seconds.
Other reports claimed a speed of Mach 9.8.
Other sources say the 9.8 figure was achieved only in
flight on the Pegasus booster rocket, and that the new
plane actually slowed down slightly after launch as it
flew past the 100,000 foot altitude mark that is used
as a general demarcation of the beginning of space.
This is not a full-sized plane, it's only 12 feet long.
This was the third of three X-43A's, the first of which
was intentionally destroyed when the Pegasus booster
failed to stay on course. The second flew last March,
reaching Mach 6.83, or nearly 5,000 mph.
The basic advantage being sought in this program is to
eliminate the need for vehicles to carry oxygen to burn,
but rather to use the oxygen in the atmosphere, thus making
them lighter and faster, able to carry more payload over
longer distances.
One idea is for these scramjets to carry satellites nearly
into orbit and then shoot them into orbit much as one would
shoot any other projectile.
Shades of Jules Verne's "From The Earth To The Moon," in which
astronauts were shot into space. . .and you can read right here
at Project Gutenberg.
[meanwhile. . .back at the lunar ranch. . . .]
SLOWLY BUT CHEAPLY, A NEW WAY TO THE MOON
from The Washington Post
Astronauts used to get to the moon in a few days, after blazing
into space atop the largest rockets ever, but a new approach,
dubbed SMART-1, is just now entering lunar orbit, after over a
year in ever-widening orbits of the earth, eventually reaching
close enough to the moon to be guided into its gravity and will
now orbit the moon, all by using a very small engine, after being
launch into earth orbit in the usual manner.
http://snipurl.com/an8a
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"They can be removed from our society
with no more thought than removing
bad apples from a barrel."
Nixon's Vice-President Spiro Agnew,
about those who disagreed with Nixon
about the Viet Nam War
[Does anyone have the exact reference?]
*PREDICTION OF THE WEEK
You won't hear much more about the X-43A scramjet for a while.
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The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Charles Dudley Warner, by Warner 3136
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Summer in a Garden and Calvin A Study Of Character, by Warner 3135
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In the Wilderness, by Charles Dudley Warner 3132
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How Spring Came in New England, by Charles Dudley Warner 3131
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Saunterings, by Charles Dudley Warner 3128
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The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner, by Charles Dudley Warner 3125
Contents:
As We Were Saying
Rose And Chrysanthemum
The Red Bonnet
The Loss In Civilization
Social Screaming
Does Refinement Kill Individuality?
The Directoire Gown
The Mystery Of The Sex
The Clothes Of Fiction
The Broad A
Chewing Gum
Women In Congress
Shall Women Propose?
Frocks And The Stage
Altruism
Social Clearing-House
Dinner-Table Talk
Naturalization
Art Of Governing
Love Of Display
Value Of The Commonplace
The Burden Of Christmas
The Responsibility Of Writers
The Cap And Gown
A Tendency Of The Age
A Locoed Novelist
As We Go
Our President
The Newspaper-Made Man
Interesting Girls
Give The Men A Chance
The Advent Of Candor
The American Man
The Electric Way
Can A Husband Open His Wife's Letters?
A Leisure Class
Weather And Character
Born With An "Ego"
Juventus Mundi
A Beautiful Old Age
The Attraction Of The Repulsive
Giving As A Luxury
Climate And Happiness
The New Feminine Reserve
Repose In Activity
Women--Ideal And Real
The Art Of Idleness
Is There Any Conversation
The Tall Girl
The Deadly Diary
The Whistling Girl
Born Old And Rich
The "Old Soldier"
The Island Of Bimini
June
Nine Short Essays
A Night In The Garden Of The Tuileries
Truthfulness
The Pursuit Of Happiness
Literature And The Stage
The Life-Saving And Life Prolonging Art
"H.H." In Southern California
Simplicity
The English Volunteers During The Late Invasion
Nathan Hale
Fashions In Literature
The American Newspaper
Certain Diversities Of American Life
The Pilgrim, And The American Of Today--[1892]
Some Causes Of The Prevailing Discontent
The Education Of The Negro
The Indeterminate Sentence
Literary Copyright
The Relation Of Literature To Life
Biographical Sketch By Thomas R. Lounsbury.
The Relation Of Literature To Life
"Equality"
What Is Your Culture To Me?
Modern Fiction
Thoughts Suggested By Mr. Froude's "Progress"
England
The Novel And The Common School
The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote]
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That Fortune, by Charles Dudley Warner 3105
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The Golden House, by Charles Dudley Warner 3104
[Updated edition of: etext02/cwgld11.txt]
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Little Journey in the World, by Charles Dudley Warner 3103
[Updated edition of: etext02/cwljw11.txt]
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Their Pilgrimage, by Charles Dudley Warner 3102
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Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner 3101
[Updated edition of: etext02/cwirv11.txt]
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The Brethren, by H. Rider Haggard 2762
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Honorine, by Honore de Balzac 1683
[Tr.: Clara Bell]
[Updated edition of: etext98/hnrne10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/6/8/1683 ]
[Files: 1683.txt]
An Historical Mystery, by Honore de Balzac 1678
[Tr.: Katharine Prescott Wormeley]
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Title correction (Journaux, not Journeaux):
Journaux intimes, by Charles Baudelaire 13792
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, No. 389 14011
[September 12, 1829]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/1/14011 ]
[Files: 14011.txt; 14011-8.txt; 14011-h.htm; ]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. 574 14010
[November 3, 1832]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/1/14010 ]
[Files: 14010.txt; 14010-8.txt; 14010-h.htm]
Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891, by Various 14009
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/0/14009 ]
[Files: 14009.txt; 14009-8.txt; 14009-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol 20, No. 578 14008
[December 1, 1832]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/0/14008 ]
[Files: 14008.txt; 14008-8.txt; 14008-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. 569 14007
[October 6, 1832]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/0/14007 ]
[Files: 14007.txt; 14007-8.txt; 14007-h.htm]
An English Grammar, by W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell 14006
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/0/14006 ]
[Files: 14006.txt; 14006-8.txt; 14006-0.txt; 14006-h.htm]
The Ladies Delight, by Anonymous 14005
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/0/14005 ]
[Files: 14005.txt; 14005-h.htm]
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Francis Fisher Browne 14004
[Subtitle: A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures
And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/0/14004 ]
[Files: 14004.txt; 14004-8.txt; 14004-h.htm]
Disputed Handrwriting, by Jerome B. Lavay 14003
[Subtitle: An Exhaustive, Valuable, and Comprehensive Work upon One of
the Most Important Subjects of To-day. With Illustrations and
Expositions for the Detection and Study of Forgery by Handwriting of
All Kinds]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/0/14003 ]
[Files: 14003.txt; 14003-8.txt; 14003-h.htm; ]
Cosmic Consciousness, by Ali Nomad 14002
[Subtitle: The Man-God Whom We Await]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/0/14002 ]
[Files: 14002.txt; 14002-8.txt; ]
The Mississippi Bubble, by Emerson Hough 14001
[Subtitle: How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again,
by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston]
[Illus.: Henry Hutt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/0/0/14001 ]
[Files: 14001.txt; 14001-8.txt; 14001-h.htm; ]
Six Lectures on Light, by John Tyndall 14000
[Subtitle: Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/0/0/14000 ]
[Files: 14000.txt; 14000-8.txt; 14000-h.htm]
Auvergne, by G. Bosch 13999
[From "De Aarde en haar volken," Jaargang 1906]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13999 ]
[Files: 13999.txt; 13999-8.txt; 13999-h.htm]
Ireland and the Home Rule Movement, by Michael F. J. McDonnell 13998
[Preface by John Redmond]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/9/13998 ]
[Files: 13998.txt; 13998-8.txt; 13998-h.htm; ]
Real Folks, by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney 13997
[Author AKA: Adeline Dutton Train Whitney]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/9/13997 ]
[Files: 13997.txt; 13997-8.txt; 13997-h.htm; ]
The Divine Fire, by May Sinclair 13996
[Author AKA: Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/9/13996 ]
[Files: 13996.txt; 13996-8.txt; 13996-h.htm; ]
Punch, Vol. 101, October 3rd, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13995
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13995 ]
[Files: 13995.txt; 13995-8.txt; 13995-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 101, October 10, 1891, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 13994
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13994 ]
[Files: 13994.txt; 13994-8.txt; 13994-h.htm]
Dere Mable, by Edward Streeter 13993
[Subtitle: Love Letters Of A Rookie]
[Illus.: G. William Breck]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13993 ]
[Files: 13993.txt; 13993-h.htm]
Kitty Trenire, by Mabel Quiller-Couch 13992
[Author AKA: Florence Mabel Quiller-Couch (c. 1866-1924)]
[Mabel Quiller-Couch was the sister of Arthur T. Quiller-Couch ("Q").]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/9/13992 ]
[Files: 13992.txt; ]
Puukkojunkkarit, by Santeri Alkio 13991
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13991 ]
[Files: 13991-8.txt]
Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims, by American Anti-Slavery Society 13990
[Subtitle: Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/9/13990 ]
[Files: 13990.txt; 13990-8.txt; 13990-h.htm]
Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act, by Lydia Maria Childs 13989
[Subtitle: Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 9, An Appeal To The Legislators Of
Massachusetts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13989 ]
[Files: 13989.txt; 13989-h.htm]
Fugitive Slave Law: The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law, by Spencer 13988
[Subtitle: A Sermon by Ichabod S. Spencer Preached In The Second
Presbyterian Church In Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1850]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13988 ]
[Files: 13988.txt; 13988-h.htm]
Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law, by John Hossack 13987
[Full title: Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the
Fugitive Slave Law]
[Subtitle: Before Judge Drummond, Of The United States District Court,
Chicago, Ill.; Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13987 ]
[Files: 13987.txt; 13987-h.htm]
Mr. Cushing, on the Right of Petition, Abolition of Slavery, by Cushing 13986
[Title: Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the Right of
Petition, as Connected with Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery
and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. In The House Of
Representatives, January 25, 1836.]
[Author: Caleb Cushing]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13986 ]
[Files: 13986.txt; 13986-h.htm]
V. V.'s Eyes, by Henry Sydnor Harrison 13985
[Illus.: Raymond M. Crosby]
[One of the ten bestsellers of 1913]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13985 ]
[Files: 13985.txt; 13985-8.txt; 13985-h.htm; ]
In the Wrong Paradise, by Andrew Lang 13984
[Subtitle: And Other Stories]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13984 ]
[Files: 13984.txt; 13984-h.htm ]
The Book of the Epic, by Helene A. Guerber 13983
[Author: Introduction by J. Berg Esenwein]
[Subtitle: The World's Great Epics Told in Story]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13983 ]
[Files: 13983.txt; 13983-8.txt; ]
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper, by James A. Cooper 13982
[Subtitle: A Story of Cape Cod]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13982 ]
[Files: 13982.txt; ]
Histoire du Chevalier d'Iberville, by Adam-Charles-Gustave Desmazures 13981
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/8/13981 ]
[Files: 13981.txt; 13981-8.txt; 13981-h.htm]
Mappo, the Merry Monkey, by Richard Barnum 13980
[Subtitle: His Many Adventures]
[Ill.: Harriet H. Tooker]
[From the Knee-Time Animal Stories series]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/8/13980 ]
[Files: 13980.txt; 13980-h.htm; ]
For The Admiral, by W.J. Marx 13979
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13979 ]
[Files: 13979.txt; 13979-8.txt; 13979-h.htm]
The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, by Edward G. Flight 13978
[Subtitle: Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against
Witchcraft]
[Ill.: George Cruikshank]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/7/13978 ]
[Files: 13978.txt; 13978-h.htm; ]
The Argonautica, by Apollonius Rhodius 13977
[Edited and with an introduction by R.C. Seaton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13977 ]
[Files: 13977.txt; 13977-8.txt]
Koyhaa kansaa; Salakari, by Minna Canth 13976
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13976 ]
[Files: 13976-8.txt]
Qventin Durward, by Walter Scott 13975
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13975 ]
[Files: 13975-8.txt]
The Last West and Paolo's Virginia, by G. B. Warren 13974
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13974 ]
[Files: 13974.txt]
Whistler Stories, by Don C. Seitz 13973
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13973 ]
[Files: 13973.txt]
The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From Women, by Various 13972
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13972 ]
[Files: 13972.txt; 13972-h.htm]
The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men, by Various 13971
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/7/13971 ]
[Files: 13971.txt; 13971-h.htm]
Nick of the Woods, by Robert M. Bird 13970
[Subtitle: Adventures of Prairie Life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/7/13970 ]
[Files: 13970.txt; ]
The Hill of Dreams, by Arthur Machen 13969
[Author AKA: Arthur Llewellyn Jones]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/6/13969 ]
[Files: 13969.txt; 13969-8.txt; ]
Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12), by Burke 13968
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13968 ]
[Files: 13968.txt; 13968-8.txt]
Nedra, by George Barr McCutcheon 13967
[Illus.: Harrison Fisher]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/6/13967 ]
[Files: 13967.txt; 13967-8.txt; 13967-h.htm; ]
Punch, Vol. 152, January 17, 1917, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 13966
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13966 ]
[Files: 13966.txt; 13966-8.txt; 13966-h.htm]
Portraits litteraires, Tome II, by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve 13965
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13965 ]
[Files: 13965.txt; 13965-8.txt; 13965-h.htm]
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873, by Various 13964
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13964 ]
[Files: 13964.txt; 13964-8.txt; 13964-h.htm]
Ireland Since Parnell, by Daniel Desmond Sheehan 13963
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13963 ]
[Files: 13963.txt; 13963-8.txt; 13963-h.htm]
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884, by Various 13962
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13962 ]
[Files: 13962.txt; 13962-8.txt; 13962-h.htm]
Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891, Ed. by Francis Burnand 13961
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13961 ]
[Files: 13961.txt; 13961-8.txt; 13961-h.htm]
Charles Rex, by Ethel M. Dell 13960
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/6/13960 ]
[Files: 13960.txt; 13960-8.txt]
Door Oost-Perzie, by Percy Molesworth Sykes 13959
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13959 ]
[Files: 13959.txt; 13959-8.txt; 13959-h.htm]
Authoritative Life of General William Booth, by George Scott Railton 13958
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13958 ]
[Files: 13958.txt; 13958-8.txt; 13958-0.txt; 13958-h.htm]
The Pocket George Borrow, by George Borrow 13957
[Subtitle: Passages chosen from the works of George Borrow]
[Editor: Edward Thomas]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/5/13957 ]
[Files: 13957.txt; 13957-h.htm]
Lippincott's Magazine Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876, by Various 13956
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13956 ]
[Files: 13956.txt; 13956-8.txt; 13956-h.htm]
Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912, Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone 13955
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13955 ]
[Files: 13955.txt; 13955-8.txt; 13955-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 152, June 27, 1917, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 13954
[Subtitle: 1917 Almanack]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13954 ]
[Files: 13954.txt; 13954-8.txt; 13954-h.htm]
Celsissimus, by Arthur Achleitner 13953
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13953 ]
[Files: 13953.txt; 13953-8.txt; 13953-0.txt]
Vingt ans apres, by Alexandre Dumas 13952
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13952 ]
[Files: 13952.txt; 13952-8.txt]
Les trois mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas 13951
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13951 ]
[Files: 13951.txt; 13951-8.txt]
Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Tome IV, by Alexandre Dumas 13950
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/5/13950 ]
[Files: 13950.txt; 13950-8.txt]
Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Tome III, by Alexandre Dumas 13949
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13949 ]
[Files: 13949.txt; 13949-8.txt]
Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Tome II, by Alexandre Dumas 13948
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13948 ]
[Files: 13948.txt; 13948-8.txt]
Le vicomte de Bragelonne, Tome I, by Alexandre Dumas 13947
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13947 ]
[Files: 13947.txt; 13947-8.txt]
Camp and Trail, by Isabel Hornibrook 13946
[Subtitle: A Story of the Maine Woods]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13946 ]
[Files: 13946.txt; 13946-8.txt; 13946-h.htm]
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2), Harriet Beecher Stowe 13945
[Author: Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13945 ]
[Files: 13945.txt; 13945-8.txt; 13945-h.htm]
After London, by Richard Jefferies 13944
[Subtitle: Wild England]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13944 ]
[Files: 13944.txt; 13944-8.txt; 13944-h.htm]
Political Pamphlets, by George Saintsbury 13943
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13943 ]
[Files: 13943.txt; 13943-8.txt; 13943-h.htm]
Brave Men and Women, by O.E. Fuller 13942
[Subtitle: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13942 ]
[Files: 13942.txt; 13942-8.txt; 13942-h.htm]
The Divine Right of Church Government, by Sundry Ministers 13941
[Author: Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London]
[Wherein It Is Proved That The Presbyterian Government, By Preaching
And Ruling Elders, In Sessional, Presbyterial, And Synodical Assemblies,
May Lay The Only Lawful Claim To A Divine Right, According To The
Holy Scriptures]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13941 ]
[Files: 13941.txt; 13941-8.txt; 13941-h.htm]
The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell 13940
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/4/13940 ]
[Files: 13940.txt; 13940-8.txt; 13940-h.htm]
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885, by Various 13939
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/9/3/13939 ]
[Files: 13939.txt; 13939-8.txt; 13939-h.htm]
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. 491 13935
[May 28, 1831]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/3/13935 ]
[Files: 13935.txt; 13935-8.txt; 13935-h.htm; ]
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"For those wishing to know", elucidation from David Price:
1. About #13957, The Pocket George Borrow, by George Borrow:
The Pocket George Borrow is part of a series of "selected passages from
XYZ" produced by publisher Chatto & Windus in the early part of the 20th
century. A different, but important, person made the selection in each
case. Other volumes in the same series include Thackeray (chosen by
Alfred Hyatt), Robert Louis Stevenson (already in Gutenberg) and so on.
Edward Thomas, who selected for this volume, is the well-known war-poet:
he was also a great admirer of George Borrow.
George Borrow was an English eccentric, gifted in languages. All of the
works selected from in this book are available in Gutenberg - if you like
any particular passage you can have the whole eBook as well.
2. About #13984, In the Wrong Paradise, by Andrew Lang
. . .it's a group of medium-sized stories, mainly on a theme of mythology
(Lang's pet subject). A number of the stories are written with a wry
twist. In one of the stories, "The Gladstone Myth" Lang has a friendly
dig at those mythologists whose theories he disagreed with. The most
well-rounded of the stories is the first one, The End of Phaeacia, in
which a biggotted Victorian "missionary" comes across a "barbaric,
heathen" tribe who, one feels, are more than the missionary perceives...
~ ~ ~
All men can fly, but sadly, only in one direction -- down.
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