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Subject: [gweekly] Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z, by Various 18422
[Ed.: Thomas Brackett Reed]
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August First, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray 18529
[Ill.: A. I. Keller]
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Carta de hum cidadam de Genova, by Anonymous 18528
[Full title: Carta de hum cidadam de Genova a hum seu correspondente]
[em Londres]
[Language: Portuguese]
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Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake, by Various 18527
[Title: An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a
Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken]
[Subtitle: Prepared By Federal Emergency Management Agency]
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Eating in Two or Three Languages, by Irvin S. Cobb 18526
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[Files: 18526.txt; 18526-8.txt; 18526-h.htm]
On the Trail, by Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard 18525
[Subtitle: An Outdoor Book for Girls]
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[Files: 18525.txt; 18525-8.txt; 18525-h.htm]
A Dark Month, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 18524
[Subtitle: From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V]
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[Files: 18524.txt; 18524-h.htm]
The Poetry of Wales, by John Jenkins 18523
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The Wreck, by Anonymous 18522
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An Expository Outline, by Anonymous 18521
[Title: An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History
of Creation"]
[Subtitle: With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to
the Vestiges]
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Sabotage in Space, by Carey Rockwell 18520
[Illustrator: Louis Glanzman]
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Manifesto, by Joo Daniel 18519
[Title: Manifesto da Serenissima Sr Rainha de Hungria, e Bohemia,
Arquiduqueza de Austria, etc.]
[Language: Portuguese]
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Fete aerostatique, by Anonymous 18518
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Anti-Achitophel (1682), by Elkanah Settle, et al 18517
[Subtitle: Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden]
[Editor: Harold Whitmore Jones]
[Contents;]
[Absalom Senior by Elkanah Settle]
[Poetical Reflections by Anonymous]
[Azaria and Hushai by Samuel Pordage]
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Het Leven der Dieren, by A. E. Brehm 18516
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[Language: Dutch]
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[Subtitle: Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney.]
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Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15), by Charles Morris 18511
[Subtitle: The Romance of Reality]
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The Chequers, by James Runciman 18510
[Subtitle: Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in]
[a Loafer's Diary]
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Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence, by Emanuel Swedenborg 18507
[Translator: William Wunsch]
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[Subtitle: A Personal Narrative]
[Author: Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron]
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[Illus.: Balliol Salmon]
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[Subtitle: or, A Fair Chance for Girls]
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[Subtitle: In the Light of Prophecy]
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[Subtitle: or, Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in]
[Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1850]
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The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886, by Various 18501
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Complete Works of Robert Burns, by Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham 18500
[Full title: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems,]
[Songs, and Correspondence.]
[Subtitle: With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and]
[Biographical by Allan Cunningham]
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[Subtitle: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties]
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[Subtitle: Romance and Adventure]
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[Files: 18495.txt; 18495-8.txt; 18495-h.htm]
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[Language: French]
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[Language: French]
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[Language: French]
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[Full title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United]
[States From Interviews with Former Slaves]
[Subtitle: Georgia Narratives, Part 4]
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[Full title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United]
[States From Interviews with Former Slaves]
[Subtitle: Georgia Narratives, Part 3]
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[Contributor: James M. Beck]
[Translator: John L. B. Williams]
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The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick, by Various 18482
[Editor: James O'Leary]
[Subtitle: Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in]
[America, and His Extant Writings]
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Oppikirja suomalaisen kirjallisuuden historiassa, by B. F. Godenhjelm 18481
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[Subtitle: St. Patrick's Native Town]
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Campaigns of the British Army 1814-1815, by G. R. Gleig 18479
[Full title: The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New]
[Orleans 1814-1815]
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John Ward, Preacher, by Margaret Deland 18478
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[Subtitle: A Psychology for Beginners]
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Yksinkertainen sydan, by Gustave Flaubert 18476
[Translator: Jalmari Hahl]
[Language: Finnish]
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[Subtitle: Ein Volksbuch]
[Illustrator: Theodor Hosemann]
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Amendment as traditional journalists. The case involved an action by
Apple Computer to discover the identity of individuals responsible for
revealing company secrets online. Apple had argued that the information
was shared not by legitimate reporters but by people who were violating
the company's trade secrets. The appeals court said that online
journalists are covered by a state law that guarantees the
confidentiality of journalists' sources. The three judges on the panel
said there is no reasonable method to distinguish legitimate from
illegitimate news and that First Amendment rights trump Apple's demand
to know who leaked the information. Observers said the case could have
far-reaching implications for bloggers and others who post information
and opinions online outside the context of traditional journalism.
New York Times, 27 May 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/technology/27apple.html
EUROPEAN COURT KILLS PASSENGER-DATA TRANSFER
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that a 2004
arrangement between the United States and the European Commission
contravenes European Community law and must be halted. Under the
agreement, which was opposed by the European Parliament, airlines were
required to submit passenger name records to U.S. officials or forfeit
their rights to land at U.S. airports. Despite airlines' having spent
large sums of money to comply with the requirement, the court found the
deal illegal on technical grounds. The European Parliament had
challenged the deal for a number of reasons, technical issues being
just one. After ruling on the technical question, however, the court
ended its inquiry, disappointing the European Parliament, which had
hoped the court would rule on privacy concerns it raised in its case
against the deal.
CNET, 30 May 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6077893.html
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*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
The new Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, is rarely mentioned
as having been an assistant two of President Nixon's appointees,
John Ehrlichman, head of the Watergate "Plumbers Unit" and also
to Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird in the Viet Nam War.
Even less mention was made of Judge Robert Bork being the author
of "The Saturday Night Massacre" of Watergate fame, when he was
nominated for the Supreme Court.
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
More journalists have been killed in the Iraq War since
March 20, 2003, 66 as of last week, than in 20 years of
the Viet Nam War, where a total of 63 were killed.
Source: Reporters Without Borders
*
"Our strength is in our values, and if we give up our values
to fight this enemy, we have already lost."
Various sources from both sides of the aisle.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The cash flow will continue to reverse, as networks who
used to pay for transmission of their programs to you--
reverse their position and charge affiliates and others
for their programming.
Yes, your local station used to get paid by the network
to show network programming, in return for advertising,
which quite often obviously split between them.
This plan may have originated with the BBC, The British
Broadcasting Company, who used to pay to send shortwave
programs to my area for my whole life until a few years
ago when I bought a new shortwave radio and found I was
not able to pick up any of the dozen plus frequencies I
had listened to the BBC on for years.
Research turned up the fact that the BBC was charging a
fee now for their programs, and thus had shut off their
"North American World Service" I had listened to. This
fee of millions of dollars per year is paid by a lot of
NPR, National Public Radio, stations through a new PRI,
Public Radio International, which was perhaps made just
for this kind of purpose.
All in all, it would appear that some kind of "pay per"
business plan is sweeping the world of commercial media
outlets, perhaps explaining the success of Youtube, the
media outlet that now receives up to 50,000 videos just
in a single day for worldwide downloading. Yahoo is in
the process of launching their competitor to Youtube.
As more and more people refuse to watch commercials the
networks are going crazy trying to figure out how to do
their commercials in new ways, including previous notes
concerning "Product Integration" being the new versions
of ye olde "Product Placement." However, writers had a
serious complaint about being forced to write ads for a
plot line that revolved around sponsors' products.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
According to CBS News Sunday night, the price of crude
went up 14% in the same period that the profits of the
gasoline companies went up 130%.
*
In New Orleans cleanup efforts, NBC reported that more
of the sub-sub-sub-contracting ripoffs were revealed:
Askritt Co., who freely admits they don't own a single
truck for the removal of anything they contracted for,
but simply paid sub-contractors and kept a lion's part
of the government payments. As I recall this was paid
by the cubic yard of disposal, and the original payees
receieved $23 per cubic yard, then passed on contracts
for $9 per cu. yd., who then did $8 and $7. . .until a
man named Leo actually did the work for $3 per cu. yd.
Source: Lisa Myers, NBC News, 06/05/06
*
Immigration of Teachers to U.S. Now A Top Priority!
Who Would Have Thought Teaching Would Be Globalized?
The United States may be trying to keep some people in
limbo as far as immigration policies are concerned but
for 10,000 needed teachers, the path may well be paved
with gold as various school districts compete for each
and every available teacher around the world.
Baltimore schools are likely to hire each one of 81 in
a single room of interviewees if they interview well--
the location is Manila in the Philippines.
It's impossible to find enough math, science, special-
education and other teachers in America, so schools in
need are sending their recruiters overseas.
The same recruitment effort that yields interviews for
perhaps five or ten teachers in the U.S. might get you
several hundred to choose from elsewhere.
Las Vegas, perhaps the fastest growing city in the US,
recruits teachers from Canada, Topeka goes to Spain or
India for many of its teachers, Dallas heads south for
teachers from Mexico and Chile, and those are just the
most obvious examples of cities that will recruit some
10,000 foreign teachers to fill classroom vacancies.
These policies are made obvious to other countries and
the result is that they even offer courses of study to
prepare students to become American teachers.
Of course, not everyone approves, the head of the NEA,
National Education Association, says that this policy,
no matter how well intended, will continue to drive an
expected teacher's salary down, and thus force teacher
wannabees into other occupations if they want to share
in the American Dreamz. For those teachers in Manila,
this IS the American Dream, as they will receive twice
or three times their current salaries in the new jobs.
Didn't anyone think of these sorts of things when they
decided to globalize everything?
Source: CBS Evening News, 6/6/06
*
More Katrina Recovery Money Goes Into Non-Work Pockets
It seems that every week a new revelation spells out a
new chapter in this never ending spectacle of greed.
Even while denying the hiring of layers of contractors
and sub-contractors and sub-sub-sub-contractors, money
trails show that much of the money paid for a recovery
from last year's hurricanes never leaves the office of
the original contractor, but is merely raked off, then
another contractor is hired, who then rakes off more--
perhaps for 8 levels--until finally a few percent of a
government contract is paid to the contractor who gets
to actually do the job.
Previous reports included the "Blue Roof" program, and
contracts given to Vice President Cheney's Halliburton
company, AshBritt, Bechtel, Akima, etc. Some of these
contracts magically seemed to grow by millions when it
was announced they would be "no-bid" or limited bidded
government contracts.
For some unknown reason much of the money was spent in
the neighboring states of Texas and Florida, where the
contractors simply passed on the work after taking out
millions of dollars for themselves.
AshBritt, a Pompano Beach, Flordia, company recently a
recipient of one of the half billion dollar contracts,
was recently called before Congress to defend contract
failures that were obvious to all concerned, in only a
few weeks the failures were already obvious. AshBritt
President Randal Perkins said, "It's normal," to House
Committee members when questioned.
Local contractors quote their own prices as $12.90 and
the like per cubic yard of debris and say contracts of
$36 per cubic yard are going to connected Big Boys.
AshBritt's Perkins said it was more like $23, and Army
Corps of Engineers sources put it at $26, but reports,
already made public, have shown that these contractors
have made over $35 per cubic yard in Louisiana, though
AshBritt was not specifially named.
The range paid to the actual local contractors seems a
range from about $13 to $17 per cubic yard, while that
same contract to non-local contractors appears in many
sources as $23 to $35+.
Various politicians, including Mississippi's Governor,
are founders of some of these contracting agencies for
whom this has been a windfall profits year as Barbour,
Griffith & Rogers, founded by Governor Haley Barbour.
Apparently politicians on both sides of the aisle have
concentrated as much or more on profiteering, some had
even resigned their positions in the first month after
Katrina to concentrate on such contracting.
Many of the stocks of these companies has risen 50-90%
in various periods after Katrina some with more than a
billion dollars of contracts still waiting for work.
While some workers are benefitting by getting $17/hour
for cleanup work, the contractors who hire them get an
admitted $30,000 per day.
In some cases it would appear that private farmers are
being paid to take mulch made from downed vegetation--
and some are reported to be making millions from it.
[Search both AshBritt, Asbritt, and variant spellings]
Sources:
NBC
MSNBC
Taxpayers for Common Sense
House Reform Committee Testimony
CorpWatch
Carlsbad Current Argus
*
500Gb drives on sale for $190
Thus you can now add a terabyte in two drives for $380,
or 1.2Tb in 3 drives for $357.
I managed to get one of the 500G drives right over the counter,
at Fry's in Chicago, no rebates required.
*
Want $4.1 in revenge on the media?
Lock them in a hot room with no air-conditioning and make them
bid for what they want with only phone contact with the bosses
all night long. . .literally. . . .
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
*
Poem of the Week
by Simona Sumanaru
My Book Of Sounds
You, to me, are like a book of poems.
I am so very lucky to have found it one day
on the dusty shelf of this old book store
in which the air is hot and a little humid
like spring this year - who would have thought
spring could last that long-
The store keeper is a little old lady
with violet-grayish strands
her hands like those of a piano player
- one would expect butterflies of sound
to be taking flight from right under her fingertips-
every time she touches a book
she takes these deep breaths and closes her eyes
for a little while
as if to memorize the feel of the cover
on her music-filled finger tips
it was a first edition, it was a romance,
it was a motivational book that father read to son
before football practice
or maybe it was a family saga mother read to daughter
before the curtains of night fell down
and thoughts drifted away
into womanhood and married life
She knows them well: pages torn, pictures missing,
tiny scribblings at the end of every chapter
where a student in international politics
boldly put in his own ideas,
or maybe an educator to be sneaked in
her most affectionate considerations
before she decided to turn on the page
towards the next soul to be molded.
(C) 2006 Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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The Portygee, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln 3263
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[Files: 3263.txt; 3263-h.htm]
The Major, by Ralph Connor 3249
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The Sky Pilot, by Ralph Connor 3248
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Black Rock, by Ralph Connor 3245
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Glengarry Schooldays, by Ralph Connor 3243
[Updated edition of: etext02/ggysd10.txt]
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Corporal Cameron, by Ralph Connor 3241
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Cap'n Eri, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln 3240
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The Great Hunger, by Johan Bojer 2943
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[Files: 2943.txt; 2943-h.htm]
Tales of the Argonauts, by Bret Harte 2886
[Contents]
[The Rose Of Tuolumne]
[A Passage In The Life Of Mr. John Oakhurst]
[Wan Lee, The Pagan]
[How Old Man Plunkett Went Home]
[The Fool Of Five Forks]
[Baby Sylvester]
[An Episode Of Fiddletown]
[A Jersey Centenarian]
[Updated edition of: etext01/argnt10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/8/2886 ]
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A Sappho of Green Springs, by Bret Harte 2867
[Contents]
[A Sappho Of Green Springs]
[The Chatelaine Of Burnt Ridge]
[Through The Santa Clara Wheat]
[A Maecenas Of The Pacific Slope]
[Updated edition of: etext01/asogs10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/6/2867 ]
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A Little Dinner at Timmins's, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2859
[Updated edition of: etext01/aldat10.txt]
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Cressy, by Bret Harte 2858
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The Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2844
[Updated edition of: etext01/fboot10.txt]
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Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2843
[Updated edition of: etext01/ltars10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/4/2843 ]
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The Fitz-Boodle Papers, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2823
[Updated edition of: etext01/fitzb10.txt]
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The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte 2798
[Updated edition of: etext01/qotpi10.txt]
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[Files: 2798.txt; 2798-h.htm]
The Wolves and the Lamb, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2797
[Updated edition of: etext01/wlvlm10.txt]
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[Files: 2797.txt; 2797-h.htm]
Found At Blazing Star, by Bret Harte 2794
[Updated edition of: etext01/fabst10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/9/2794 ]
[Files: 2794.txt; 2794-h.htm]
Flip: A California Romance, by Bret Harte 2793
[Updated edition of: etext01/flpcr10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/9/2793 ]
[Files: 2793.txt; 2793-h.htm]
Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2784
[Contents:]
[Colonel Starbottle's Client]
[The Postmistress Of Laurel Run]
[A Night At "Hays"]
[Johnson's "Old Woman"]
[The New Assistant At Pine Clearing School]
[In A Pioneer Restaurant]
[A Treasure Of The Galleon]
[Out Of A Pioneer's Trunk]
[The Ghosts Of Stukeley Castle]
[Updated edition of: etext01/strbt10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/8/2784 ]
[Files: 2784.txt; 2784-h.htm]
The Christmas Books, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2731
[Contents:]
[Mrs. Perkins's Ball]
[Our Street]
[Dr. Birch And His Young Friends]
[The Kickleburys On The Rhine]
[The Rose And The Ring; Or,]
[The History Of Prince Giglio And Prince Bulbo]
[Updated edition of: etext01/chmsb10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/3/2731 ]
[Files: 2731.txt; 2731-h.htm]
A First Family of Tasajara, by Bret Harte 2723
[Updated edition of: etext01/affot10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/2/2723 ]
[Files: 2723.txt; 2723-h.htm]
A Drift from Redwood Camp, by Bret Harte 2712
[Updated edition of: etext01/adfrc10.txt]
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[Files: 2712.txt; 2712-h.htm]
A Phyllis of the Sierras, by Bret Harte 2711
[Updated edition of: etext01/apots10.txt]
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[Files: 2711.txt; 2711-h.htm]
Sally Dows and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2705
[Contents:]
[Sally Dows]
[The Conspiracy Of Mrs. Bunker]
[The Transformation Of Buckeye Camp]
[Their Uncle From California]
[Updated edition of: etext01/sally10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/0/2705 ]
[Files: 2705.txt; 2705-h.htm]
The Argonauts of North Liberty, by Bret Harte 2703
[Updated edition of: etext01/taonl10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/0/2703 ]
[Files: 2703.txt; 2703-h.htm]
Jeff Briggs's Love Story, by Bret Harte 2695
[Updated edition of: etext01/jfbls10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/9/2695 ]
[Files: 2695.txt; 2695-h.htm]
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2692
[Contents:]
[A Protegee Of Jack Hamlin's]
[An Ingenue Of The Sierras]
[The Reformation Of James Reddy]
[The Heir Of The Mchulishes]
[An Episode Of West Woodlands]
[The Home-Coming Of Jim Wilkes]
[Updated edition of: etext01/apojh10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/9/2692 ]
[Files: 2692.txt; 2692-h.htm]
The Book of Snobs, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2686
[Updated edition of: etext01/snobs10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/8/2686 ]
[Files: 2686.txt; 2686-8.txt; 2686-h.htm]
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2676
[Contents:]
[The Bell-Ringer Of Angel's]
[Johnnyboy]
[Young Robin Gray]
[The Sheriff Of Siskyou]
[A Rose Of Glenbogie]
[The Mystery Of The Hacienda]
[Chu Chu]
[My First Book]
[Updated edition of: etext01/tbroa10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/7/2676 ]
[Files: 2676.txt; 2676-h.htm]
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Piru, by Juho Kujala 18474
[Subtitle: Historiallinen katsaus pirun alkupern, elmn ja toimintaan]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/7/18474 ]
[Files: 18474-8.txt; 18474-0.txt]
Prosper Merimee, by Kasimir Leino 18473
[Subtitle: Elamakerta ja teokset kirjallisuushistorialliselta kannalta]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/7/18473 ]
[Files: 18473-8.txt]
The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans, by Crebillon 18472
[Subtitle: Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol]
[Author: Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/7/18472 ]
[Files: 18472.txt; 18472-8.txt; 18472-h.htm; ]
Ueber die schrecklichen Wirkungen des Aufsturzes... , by Gelpke 18471
[Title: Ueber die schrecklichen Wirkungen des Aufsturzes eines Kometen
auf die Erde]
[Subtitle: und uber die vor funftausend Jahren gehabte Erscheinung
dieser Art]
[Author: August Heinrich Christian Gelpke]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/7/18471 ]
[Files: 18471-8.txt; 18471-h.htm; ]
The Second Latchkey, by Williamson 18470
[Author: Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson]
[Illus.: Rudolph Tandler]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/7/18470 ]
[Files: 18470.txt; 18470-8.txt; 18470-h.htm; ]
Captain Scraggs, by Peter B. Kyne 18469
[Subtitle: or, The Green-Pea Pirates]
[Illustrator: Gordon Grant]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18469 ]
[Files: 18469.txt; 18469-8.txt; 18469-h.htm]
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, by D. D. Ogilvie 18468
[Subtitle: and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18468 ]
[Files: 18468.txt; 18468-8.txt; 18468-h.htm]
People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English, by R. V. Pearce 18467
[Subtitle: or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18467 ]
[Files: 18467.txt; 18467-8.txt; 18467-h.htm]
The Aeneid of Virgil, by Virgil 18466
[Subtitle: Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor]
[Editor: Ernest Rhys]
[Intro.: J.P. Maine]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18466 ]
[Files: 18466.txt; 18466-h.htm]
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.), by Various 18465
[Editor: Marshall P. Wilder]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18465 ]
[Files: 18465.txt; 18465-8.txt; 18465-h.htm]
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol. I (of X), ed. by Marshall P. Wilder 18464
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18464 ]
[Files: 18464.txt; 18464-8.txt; 18464-h.htm]
Romanzen vom Rosenkranz, by Clemens Brentano 18463
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18463 ]
[Files: 18463-8.txt]
Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches,David Starr Jordan 18462
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18462 ]
[Files: 18462.txt; 18462-8.txt; 18462-h.htm]
Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's, by Laura Lee Hope 18461
[Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18461 ]
[Files: 18461.txt; 18461-8.txt; 18461-h.htm]
Flight From Tomorrow, by Henry Beam Piper 18460
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/6/18460 ]
[Files: 18460.txt; 18460-h.htm]
Hypnerotomachia, by Francesco Colonna 18459
[Subtitle: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame]
[Translator: Robert Dallington]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18459 ]
[Files: 18459.txt; 18459-8.txt; 18459-0.txt; 18459-h.htm]
Star Born, by Andre Norton 18458
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18458 ]
[Files: 18458.txt; 18458-8.txt; 18458-h.htm]
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, by Luigi Pirandello 18457
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18457 ]
[Files: 18457-8.txt; 18457-h.htm]
Enrico IV, by Luigi Pirandello 18456
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18456 ]
[Files: 18456-8.txt; 18456-h.htm]
Vie de Franklin, ecrite par lui-meme - Tome I, by Benjamin Franklin 18455
[Subtitle: Suivie de ses oeuvres morales, politiques et litteraires]
[Translator: Jean Henri Castera]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18455 ]
[Files: 18455-8.txt; 18455-h.htm]
L'ile de sable, by Emile Chevalier 18454
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18454 ]
[Files: 18454-8.txt]
The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I, by Various 18453
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18453 ]
[Files: 18453.txt; 18453-8.txt; 18453-h.htm]
Among the Mushrooms, by Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin 18452
[Subtitle: A Guide For Beginners]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18452 ]
[Files: 18452.txt; 18452-8.txt; 18452-0.txt; 18452-h.htm]
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education, by Ontario Min./Ed. 18451
[Author: Ontario Ministry of Education]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18451 ]
[Files: 18451.txt; 18451-8.txt; 18451-h.htm]
Hawaiian Folk Tales, by Various 18450
[Subtitle: A Collection of Native Legends]
[Editor: Thomas G. Thrum]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/5/18450 ]
[Files: 18450.txt; 18450-8.txt; 18450-h.htm]
The Treasure of Heaven, by Marie Corelli 18449
[Subtitle: A Romance of Riches]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18449 ]
[Files: 18449.txt; 18449-8.txt; 18449-h.htm]
Transactions of the ASCE, Paper No. 1171, by Herbert M. Wilson 18448
[Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910]
[Subtitle: Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural
Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18448 ]
[Files: 18448-8.txt; 18448-0.txt; 18448-h.htm]
Bland odebygder och skar, by Daniel Sten 18447
[Subtitle: Berttelser frn Finland]
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18447 ]
[Files: 18447-8.txt]
Scenes de la vie de boheme, by Henry Murger 18446
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18446 ]
[Files: 18446-8.txt; 18446-h.htm]
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, by Henry Murger 18445
[This book by Henry Murger was the was the source of two operas titled
"La Boheme"--one by Giacomo Puccini (1896) and the other by Ruggero
Leoncavallo (1897). The original French version of the book (Scienes de la
vie de boheme) is also being posted as e-book #18446.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18445 ]
[Files: 18445.txt; 18445-8.txt; 18445-h.htm; ]
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes, Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth 18444
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18444 ]
[Files: 18444.txt; 18444-8.txt; 18444-h.htm; ]
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May 2006 Back to the Stone Age, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [060103xx.xxx] 0621A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601031.txt or zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601031h.html ]
May 2006 Savage Pellucidar, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [060102xx.xxx] 0620A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601021.txt or zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601021h.html ]
May 2006 Tarzan's Quest, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [060101xx.xxx] 0619A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601011.txt or zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601011h.html ]
May 2006 Hawk of the Hills, by Robert E Howard [060100xx.xxx] 0618A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601001.txt
and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601001h.html ]
May 2006 The Daughter of Erlik Khan, by Robert E Howard [060099xx.xxx] 0617A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600991.txt
and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600991h.html ]
May 2006 The Hour of the Dragon, by Robert E Howard [060098xx.xxx] 0616A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600981.txt
and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600981h.html ]
May 2006 Shadows in the Moonlight, by Robert E Howard [060097xx.xxx] 0615A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600971.txt]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600971h.html ]
May 2006 Queen of the Black Coast, by Robert E Howard [060096xx.xxx] 0614A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600961.txt]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600961h.html ]
May 2006 Pool of the Black One, by Robert E Howard [060095xx.xxx] 0613A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600951.txt]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600951h.html ]
May 2006 People of the Black Circle, by Robert E Howard [060094xx.xxx] 0612A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600941.txt]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600941h.html ]
May 2006 Black Colossus, by Robert E Howard [060093xx.xxx] 0611A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600931.txt]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600931h.html ]
May 2006 A Witch Shall be Born, by Robert E Howard [060092xx.xxx] 0610A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600921.txt]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600921h.html ]
May 2006 Tarzan and the Lost Empire,by Edgar Rice Burroughs[060091xx.xxx] 0609A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600911.txt or zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600911h.html ]
May 2006 The Monster Mine, by Anonymous (P.G. M.) [060090xx.xxx] 0608A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600901.txt]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600901h.html ]
May 2006 Time and Time Again, by James Hilton [060089xx.xxx] 0607A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600891.txt
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600891h.html ]
May 2006 Wings in the Night, by Robert E Howard [060088xx.xxx] 0606A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600881.txt or .zip
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600881h.html ]
May 2006 The Hills of the Dead, by Robert E Howard [060087xx.xxx] 0605A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600871.txt or .zip
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600871h.html ]
May 2006 The Footfalls Within, by Robert E Howard [060086xx.xxx] 0604A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600861.txt or .zip
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600861h.html ]
May 2006 Skulls in the Stars, by Robert E Howard [060085xx.xxx] 0603A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600851.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600851h.html ]
May 2006 The Moon of Skulls, by Robert E Howard [060084xx.xxx] 0602A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600841.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600841h.html ]
May 2006 The Tower of the Elephant, by Robert E Howard [060083xx.xxx] 0601A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html ]
May 2006 The Scarlet Citadel, by Robert E Howard [060082xx.xxx] 0600A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600821.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600821h.html ]
May 2006 The Phoenix on the Sword, by Robert E Howard [060081xx.xxx] 0599A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600811.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600811h.html ]
May 2006 The Devil in Iron, by Robert E Howard [060080xx.xxx] 0598A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600801.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600801h.html ]
May 2006 Shadows in Zamboula, by Robert E Howard [060079xx.xxx] 0597A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600791.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600791h.html ]
May 2006 Rogues in the House, by Robert E Howard [060078xx.xxx] 0596A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600781.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600781h.html ]
May 2006 Red Nails, by Robert E Howard [060077xx.xxx] 0595A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600771.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600771h.html ]
May 2006 Jewels of Gwahlur, by Robert E Howard [060076xx.xxx] 0594A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600761.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600761h.html ]
May 2006 Gods of the North, by Robert E Howard [060075xx.xxx] 0593A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600751.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600751h.html ]
May 2006 Beyond the Black River, by Robert E Howard [060074xx.xxx] 0592A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600741.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600741h.html ]
May 2006 The Valley of the Worm, by Robert E Howard [060073xx.xxx] 0591A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600731.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600731h.html ]
May 2006 Pigeons from Hell, by Robert E Howard [060072xx.xxx] 0590A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600721.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600721h.html ]
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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600711.txt or .zip]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600711h.html ]
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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600701.txt or .zip]
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CAMPUS LANDLINES GIVING WAY TO CELL PHONES
[All this while other colleges ban cell phones as cheating aids]
A growing number of colleges and universities are questioning their
ongoing investments in providing landline phone services to students.
Indeed, some institutions have decided to discontinue landlines
altogether. Morrisville State College, for example, no longer offers
landline service in dorms. While some universities rely on students to
provide their own cell phones, the University of Cincinnati is working
with a local phone company to provide free cell phones to all students.
Frederick Siff, vice president and CIO at the university, noted that
cell-phone technology makes them more attractive for a range of tasks
than laptops. "Students don't carry laptops around constantly," he
said, "but they always have their cell phones." Officials at other
schools expressed concerns about eliminating landline service or
limiting it to a few house phones in dorms. Although money spent on
landlines could be reinvested elsewhere, some said that safety issues
make a strong case for keeping wired phone service.
CBS News, 24 May 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/24/tech/main1653702.shtml
LECTURER DROPS LECTURES FOR PODCASTS
[I wonder if anyone remembers when the same thing was tried with tape.
Both audio tapes and video tapes were tried for various lectures, but
were cancelled when it turned out that the classes sent only 1 or 2,
and those hande out their notes to rest of them. Will the same thing
happen with these podcasts?]
A lecturer in microbiology at Bradford University in the United Kingdom
has said he will eliminate traditional lectures from his biochemistry
course and replace them with podcasts. Students in Bill Ashraf's class
will review the podcasts on their own time. They will submit questions
to Ashraf through text messages, and he will respond to those inquiries
on his blog. In addition, students needing to meet with Ashraf will be
able to check his schedule online and make appointments with the
professor through the Web. "Some lecture classes have 250 students,"
said Ashraf, "so I question the effectiveness of a didactic lecture for
an hour." He said the new format will be especially beneficial for
distance and part-time students and those with less flexible schedules.
BBC, 26 May 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/5013194.stm
[and in a related story]
REPORT WARNS OF RISING PHONE, INTERNET COSTS
A group called Keep USF Fair Coalition released a report that warns of
possibly rising costs for colleges and universities to provide
telephone and Internet services on their campuses. The Universal
Service Fund (USF) is a tax on phone lines, currently based on the
number of long-distance calls made. Under a proposal by the Federal
Communications Commission, USF fees would become $1 or $1.50 for every
phone line or Internet access point. A recent study by the American
Council on Education estimated that such a change would cause most
institutions' USF fees to rise by nearly 900 percent. Wake Forest
University, for example, said its phone bill would increase from about
$400 a month to about $7,000. The coalition's report argues that if
the change is made, colleges and universities will likely either cut
back services or pass the costs along to students. Martin Ringle, chief
technology officer at Reed College, agreed, saying that in the event
that the fee is changed, Reed might consider ending phone services to
dorms, given the growing numbers of students who have cell phones.
However, "students without cell phones," he pointed out, "would quickly
become a disadvantaged class."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 May 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i38/38a03702.htm
NEW ORLEANS TO GET NEW WIRELESS NETWORK
The city of New Orleans has announced a deal under which EarthLink will
build a wireless network for the city, addressing complaints about
wireless service previously offered by the city in violation of a state
law. The law, intended to create a level playing field for commercial
vendors, forbids municipalities from offering wireless Internet service
at speeds faster than 128 Kbps. New Orleans had been offering service
at 512 Kbps. In the new deal, EarthLink will build a 15-square-mile
network that will provide free Internet access at speeds of 300 Kbps.
The free service will be supported by advertising; residents will also
have the option of paying for faster service without ads. EarthLink
will bear the cost of building and maintaining the network.
Wi-Fi Planet, 26 May 2006
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3609401
ADMISSIONS SITES GROWING IN IMPORTANCE
New data reveal that college and university Web sites are the second
most important component of recruiting efforts, behind campus visits by
prospective students. Specifically, online tools such as blogs are
attracting growing numbers of high school students to help them decide
what institution to attend. Other institutions offer different kinds of
online resources. North Dakota State University, for example, lets
students find others with similar interests and exchange e-mail.
Reflecting the inclinations of today's college-bound students,
unedited online resources have become important offerings, despite
grammatical and spelling mistakes, according to several higher
education consultants. Steve Kappler, an executive director at
consulting firm Stamats, said that the informality of such tools is
appealing to students. He encouraged colleges and universities to let
all but "egregious" content be posted in such venues. Many see the
emergence of Internet resources as a way to give prospective students
the opportunity to talk to current students, bypassing what they might
see as the sales pitch of admissions officers.
ABC News, 22 May 2006
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.
Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]
US Supreme Court Justice Alito Casts Deciding Vote
As He Joins With New Chief Justice In Major Decision
"Workers' Complaints Muffled" Cape Cod Times
"Whistleblowers Lose In Ruling" Whittier Daily News
Employees' Speech Not Protected" Fort Worth Star Telegram
DetNews.com - Online Athens (subscription) - all 378 related ;
"Supreme Court Scales Back Protections for Whistleblowers" DetNews.com
[Not much coverage on this, if any, by the three networks' news last night]
*
Several News Sources Report US Airline Information "Bullying"
Computerworld and the BBC both labeled the US efforts to force
passenger lists from EU airlines as "transAtlantic bullying."
If you flew one of these airlines you might have found that 35
pieces of information about you were sent to US Intelligence,
originally even including what mean you chose to eat, if any.
Your credit card information would have been just one of these.
Meal choice has since been dropped, so the total is 34. However,
the EU has decided no one had the authority to grant the requests,
throwing this intelligence gathering net into a tizzy.
*
Lance Armstrong Exonerated, Officials Now Under Investigation
Not only was Lance Armstrong just cleared of doping accusations
concerning the 1999 Tour de France, but the table are now turned
and those who were accusing him are now under investigation for
impropriety in their pursuit of Mr. Armstrong.
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Depending on which US government officials you listened to this week,
the number of US troops in Iraq is either going up or down.
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
You are "making business as usual a crime." Kenneth Lay, NBC, 5/25
US government sources finally admitted Iraq insurgency is on the rise,
exactly 1 year after Vice President Cheney's famous speech stating the
opposite was in fact the case and light at the end of the tunnnel.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
"Product Integration" versus "Product Placement"
Have you noticed that the products sponsoring the TV shows
you are watching have begun to show up in the plot line?
Are your favorite characters buyin more Oreos or Oil of Olay,
just to sample a small portion of the advertising alphabet.
Of course it won't be something such as a CSI investigator
reporting that the victim choked to death on Oreos [TM],
because that wouldn't enhance Oreos' [TM] image, but that
is the general idea being forced down the throats of the
writers who now have to work these into the plot lines.
And by their own admission, the WRITERS are choking on it,
according to representatives from Desperate Housewives and
ER on the one hand, and Law and Order and The West Wing,
on the other.
Recent episodes confirmed this trend when the family of
CBS's new show How I Met Your Mother somehow stopped a
literal family feud that was the central plot line just
because of Red Lobster, which was not only shown in the
show, but a carefully placed ad for Red Lobster was the
most cunning editorial achievement of the night. Weeks
earlier, 7th Heaven's WB family of note had discussions
cunningly worked into the show about their favorite way
to eat Oreos, a plot line that has now worked its way a
ways across the great divide to radio. Also on the WB,
Pepper Dennis's writers managed to work the promotional
box of Crest Whitening Strips that you get in the mail,
right in front of the camera, not totally unlike Jackie
Chan's thing with the Pepsi Can. Sheesh. It is not as
if the story stops here, you might be hard pressed with
effort worthy of an academic researcher to find just an
example week on an example network during "May Sweeps,"
where this kind of thing wasn't part of the fare: fair
or otherwise, that is the fare being paid by networks--
then foisted by them on to their writers--and then from
them on to the actors--and then on to the viewers.
"The Trickle Down Theory of Economics" in action, right
in front of millions and millions of viewers.
This can work in the opposite direction, apparently the
writers of Desperate Housewives were pressured from the
makers of a certain hot car NOT to have specific driver
seen in the car. . .which apparently led to one parting
of the ways. . .at least on that particular scene.
Sometimes the plot thickens over time, and a 7th Heaven
episode also feature Oreos again, with engagement ring,
yes you heard it right, an engagement ring somehow made
into an Oreo.
_I_ didn't even think they MADE enagement rings in such
tiny sizes this would require, even with Double Stuff--
talk about pushing a point!
Sources:
The Writers' Guild of America
Mediapost, May 18
New York Times, May 18
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
"The American Booksellers Association
has crumbled from 5,200 bookstores
in 1991 to 1,702 stores in 2005."
The Village Voice, May 22
*
It has now been one year since Bush's big tax cut.
Workers earning under $15,000 got a $0 difference.
Persons earning $1-2 million got $82,000.
*
On May 12 the US Senate Approved Bush Tax Cut Extensions
Voting was 54-44, with three from each party switching sides.
The house voted 244-185 a little earlier.
"This is a defining day," according to John W. Snow, Treasury Secretary,
"The vote today will show the American people who supports lower taxes
and who doesn't," as he and Senate Repulicans lined up support for the
soon to come elections.
[Of course the future of the Treasury Department changed a lot since.]
Source: The Washington Times
*
I didn't get this quote exactly, sorry, but someone on Fox News Sunday
mentioned requests made to drop charges re: warrantless wiretaps. 5/28
*
400Gb drives on sale for $119
500Gb drives on sale for $190
750Gb drives are now $438
Thus you can now add a terabyte in two drives for $380,
or 1.2Tb in 3 drives for $357.
*
The average American woman now has her first child at 25,
up from 21.4 in 1970 to 25.1 as of 2002. Switzerland had
the highest age, already up to 29 as of the year 2000.
In the UK the average age is 27, and single parent births
are up from 15% in 1980 to 40% today.
Source: CDC and BBC
*
80% of US workers report they feel their job will last at
least one more year, and 50% expect a promotion in that year.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Are there any interest charges, etc? What operating system?]
A new program supported by Microsoft aims to provide developing
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machine and would not incur any more charges. Microsoft, which has
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product management in the market expansion group at Microsoft,
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countries have, allowing them to pay for their computer when they are able.
Silicon.com, 22 May 2006
http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39159025,00.htm
FEDS NERVOUS ABOUT LENOVO DEAL
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House committee with responsibility for State Department funding,
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Lenovo machines will be restricted to non-classified uses. Officials
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the decision.
CNET, 19 May 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-7350_3-6074207.html
USPTO TO REEXAMINE ONLINE TESTING PATENT
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about "prior art," the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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whether another party had previously developed the item or technology
in question. The patent at issue was granted to Test.com for
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patent would allow the company to claim patent authority over a wide
range of online testing tools deployed at colleges and universities,
and the company has already approached some institutions about
licensing the patent. According to the EFF, however, another company
offered such tools for sale at least one year before the Test.com
patent was issued. The review process is expected to take at least two
months. James J. Posch, chief executive of Test.com, noted that their
patent claim has passed muster once already. "I'll be surprised if it
doesn't survive a second time," he said. Jason Schultz, staff lawyer
at the EFF, had a different outlook, saying that he is confident the
patent will be invalidated unless Test.com discloses some secret evidence.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 May 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006051901t.htm
ANTISPAM OUTFIT CRUSHED BY SPAMMER RETALIATION
An antispam start-up based in Israel has shut its doors after a barrage
of retaliatory action from spammers. In July 2005, Blue Security
launched the Blue Frog service to fight spam. Users who signed up with
the service would submit spam they received, which Blue Security would
then use to flood the servers of spammers and the merchants whose
products were advertised in those spam messages. If a spammer had a Web
site that allowed users to opt out of receiving more messages, Blue
Security would swamp those sites with opt-out requests. Officials from
Blue Security said their tactic decreased the amount of spam many of
its customers received, but it also prompted spammers to respond.
Starting in May, Blue Security was the target of a denial-of-service
attack, and Blue Security customers began receiving threats from
spammers. The prospect of further attacks from spammers, many of whom
have deep resources at their disposal, led Blue Security to end
operations. "We cannot take the responsibility for an ever-escalating
cyber war through our continued operations" said a statement on the
company's site. "We believe this is the responsible thing to do."
BBC, 17 May 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4990622.stm
RIAA SUES XM RECORDING DEVICE
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federal lawsuit against XM Radio, broadcaster of digital radio,
alleging that the company's new Inno recording device will allow
"massive wholesale infringement" of copyrights. XM, which introduced
the Inno this month, had been in talks with the RIAA over royalties for
songs saved on the portable device, but those talks reportedly broke
down. In its complaint, the RIAA argued that the new device will allow
users to record any of the vast amount of content that XM broadcasts,
leaving users with "little need ever again to buy legitimate copies of
plaintiffs' sound recordings." The suit asks for $150,000 in damages
for every song recorded by XM customers. Officials from XM pointed out
that digital radio is not an on-demand service, meaning listeners can
only record what the station happens to play, unlike an online music
service such as Apple's iTunes. XM said the new device allows consumers
to record radio broadcasts, an action that has legal protection.
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"A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, soon you
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*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
A $10+ billion dollar accounting scheme to "cook the books"
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and a total of perhaps $1 trillion has passed in Fannie Mae
accounts in that that time, so detractors say it was only a
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percent of all U.S. mortgages, was to generate "bonuses" of
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others also had their compensation linked to performance.
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may be up to the SEC and other governmental agencis to make
the case to strip these high level executives in court.
Then Raines, Ex-CFO J. Timothy Howard and others might be a
target to be retroactively fired, and have to repay salary.
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retailer, Royal Ahold, were convicted of fraud and fined at
most $300,000 each, along with a suspended sentence.
Ex-CEO Cees van der Hoeven and Ex-CFO Michiel Meurs got the
news yesterday.
Fining a person who makes millions per year $300,000 is the
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Source: The Kansas City Star
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that send those millions and billions of the ladder.]
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By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
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receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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May 1998 Criminal Psychology, by Hans Gross [crmsyxxx.xxx] 1320
May 1998 Increasing Efficiency In Business, by W.D. Scott [ihdibxxx.xxx] 1319
May 1998 The Twin Hells, by John N. Reynolds [twnhlxxx.xxx] 1318
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Some Reminiscences, by Joseph Conrad 1316
Autobiography and Selected Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley 1315
May 1998 The Malefactor, by E. Phillips Oppenheim [EPE#1][mlfctxxx.xxx] 1314
May 1998 Over The Sliprails, by Henry Lawson [Lawson #4][oslipxxx.xxx] 1313
Selected Stories, by Bret Harte 1312
May 1998 If, by Lord Dunsany [Edward John Plunkett] [#1][ifdunxxx.xxx] 1311
May 1998 The Annals of the Parish, John Galt[THE John Galt][anaprxxx.xxx] 1310
The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays, by Alice Meynell 1309
May 1998 Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous, Oscar Wilde[Collection][wldmsxxx.xxx] 1308
The Magic Skin, by Honore de Balzac [Translated by Ellen Marriage] 1307
May 1998 Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #4] [svnmnxxx.xxx] 1306
The Ball at Sceaux, by Honore de Balzac 1305
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The Scapegoat, by Hall Caine 1303
May 1998 The Enemies of Books, by William Blades [nmybkxxx.xxx] 1302
The French Revolution, by Thomas Carlyle 1301
May 1998 Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey [Grey #7][prpsgxxx.xxx] 1300
May 1998 The Heritage of the Sioux by B. M. Bower[Bower #6][hrtsuxxx.xxx] 1299
May 1998 The Virginian, Horseman Of The Plains, Owen Wister[vrgnnxxx.xxx] 1298
May 1998 The Iron Puddler, by James J. Davis [tirnpxxx.xxx] 1297
Apr 1998 The Provost, by John Galt [This is THE John Galt] [prvstxxx.xxx] 1296
Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays, by Alice Meynell 1295
The Firm of Nucingen, by Honore de Balzac 1294
Apr 1998 Sesame and Lilies, by John Ruskin [John Ruskin #2][seslixxx.xxx] 1293
Apr 1998 The Way of the World by William Congreve [WC #4][wwrldxxx.xxx] 1292
Herodias, by Gustave Flaubert 1291
Salammbo, by Gustave Flaubert 1290
Apr 1998 Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens [CD #33-35][3ghstxxx.xxx] 1289
Apr 1998 Dream Days, by Kenneth Grahame[Kenneth Grahame #1][drdayxxa.xxx] 1288
Apr 1998 The Poems of Goethe, Transl. Edgar Alfred Bowring [tpgthxxx.xxx] 1287
Apr 1998 Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [tshakxxa.xxx] 1286
Apr 1998 The Water Goats et. al., by Ellis Parker Butler [twgtsxxx.xxx] 1285
Apr 1998 Tom Swift and His Air Scout, by Victor Appleton [22tomxxx.xxx] 1284
Apr 1998 Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera by Victor Appleton[14tomxxx.xxx] 1283
Apr 1998 Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, by V. Appleton[07tomxxx.xxx] 1282
Apr 1998 Tom Swift & His Aerial Warship, by Victor Appleton[18tomxxx.xxx] 1281
Apr 1998 Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters [sprvrxxx.xxx] 1280
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, by Robert Burns 1279
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Burlesques, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2675
[Updated edition of: etext01/brlsq10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/7/2675 ]
[Files: 2675.txt; 2675-h.htm]
The Story of a Mine, by Bret Harte 2661
[Updated edition of: etext01/tsoam10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/6/2661 ]
[Files: 2661.txt; 2661-h.htm]
George Cruikshank, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2648
[Updated edition of: etext01/cruik10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/4/2648 ]
[Files: 2648.txt; 2648-h.htm]
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, William Makepeace Thackeray 2646
[Updated edition of: etext01/jlplc10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/4/2646 ]
[Files: 2646.txt; 2646-h.htm]
The Second Funeral of Napoleon, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2645
[Author AKA: Michael Angelo Titmarch]
[Updated edition of: etext01/2napf10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/4/2645 ]
[Files: 2645.txt; 2645-h.htm]
Clarence, by Bret Harte 2635
[Updated edition of: etext01/clrnc10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/3/2635 ]
[Files: 2635.txt; 2635-h.htm]
Roundabout Papers, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2608
[Updated edition of: etext01/rndbt10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/0/2608 ]
[Files: 2608.txt; 2608-h.htm]
Legends and Tales, by Bret Harte 2599
[Contents]
[The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo]
[The Adventure Of Padre Vincentio]
[The Legend Of Devil's Point]
[The Devil And The Broker]
[The Ogress Of Silver Land]
[The Ruins Of San Francisco]
[A Night At Wingdam]
[Updated edition of: etext01/landt10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/9/2599 ]
[Files: 2599.txt; 2599-h.htm]
Urban Sketches, by Bret Harte 2598
[Contents:]
[A Venerable Impostor]
[From A Balcony]
[Melons]
[Surprising Adventures Of Master Charles Summerton]
[Sidewalkings]
[A Boy's Dog]
[Charitable Reminiscences]
["Seeing The Steamer Off"]
[Neighborhoods I Have Moved From]
[My Suburban Residence]
[On A Vulgar Little Boy]
[Waiting For The Ship]
[Updated edition of: etext01/urbns10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/9/2598 ]
[Files: 2598.txt; 2598-h.htm]
Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2597
[Contents]
[Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands]
[How Santa Claus Came To Simpson's Bar]
[The Princess Bob And Her Friends]
[The Iliad Of Sandy Bar]
[Mr. Thompson's Prodigal]
[The Romance Or Madrono Hollow]
[The Poet Of Sierra Flat]
[The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert]
[Updated edition of: etext01/skggs10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/9/2597 ]
[Files: 2597.txt; 2597-h.htm]
On the Frontier, by Bret Harte 2574
[Contents]
[At The Mission Of San Carmel]
[A Blue Grass Penelope]
[Left Out On Lone Star Mountain]
[Updated edition of: etext01/frntr10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/7/2574 ]
[Files: 2574.txt; 2574-h.htm]
The Three Partners, by Bret Harte 2560
[Updated edition of: etext01/tpart10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/6/2560 ]
[Files: 2560.txt; 2560-h.htm]
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories, by Bret Harte 2556
[Contents]
[Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation]
[The Man At The Semaphore]
[An Esmeralda Of Rocky Canyon]
[Dick Spindler's Family Christmas]
[When The Waters Were Up At "Jules'"]
[The Boom In The "Calaveras Clarion"]
[The Secret Of Sobriente's Well]
[Liberty Jones's Discovery]
[Updated edition of: etext01/jhmln10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/5/2556 ]
[Files: 2556.txt; 2556-h.htm]
Under the Redwoods, by Bret Harte 2555
[Contents]
[Jimmy's Big Brother From California]
[The Youngest Miss Piper]
[A Widow Of The Santa Ana Valley]
[The Mermaid Of Lighthouse Point]
[Under The Eaves]
[How Reuben Allen "Saw Life" In San Francisco]
[Three Vagabonds Of Trinidad]
[A Vision Of The Fountain]
[A Romance Of The Line]
[Bohemian Days In San Francisco]
[Updated edition of: etext01/unrdw10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/5/2555 ]
[Files: 2555.txt; 2555-h.htm]
Thankful's Inheritance, by Joseph C. Lincoln 2552
[Updated edition of: etext01/thkin10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/5/2552 ]
[Files: 2552.txt; 2552-h.htm]
Tales of Trail and Town, by Bret Harte 2550
[Contents]
[The Ancestors Of Peter Atherly]
[Two Americans]
[The Judgment Of Bolinas Plain]
[The Strange Experience Of Alkali Dick]
[A Night On The Divide]
[The Youngest Prospector In Calaveras]
[A Tale Of Three Truants]
[Updated edition of: etext00/totat10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/5/2550 ]
[Files: 2550.txt; 2550-h.htm]
>From Sand Hill to Pine, by Bret Harte 2544
[Contents:]
[A Niece Of Snapshot Harry's]
[A Treasure Of The Redwoods]
[A Belle Of Canada City]
[What Happened At The Fonda]
[A Jack And Jill Of The Sierras]
[Mr. Bilson's Housekeeper]
[Updated edition of: etext01/fshtp10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/4/2544 ]
[Files: 2544.txt; 2544-h.htm]
Openings in the Old Trail, by Bret Harte 2535
[Contents:]
[Openings In The Old Trail]
[A Mercury Of The Foot-Hills]
[Colonel Starbottle For The Plaintiff]
[The Landlord Of The Big Flume Hotel]
[A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance]
[The Reincarnation Of Smith]
[Lanty Foster's Mistake]
[An Ali Baba Of The Sierras]
[Miss Peggy's Proteges]
[The Goddess Of Excelsior]
[Updated edition of: etext01/oitot10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/3/2535 ]
[Files: 2535.txt; 2535-h.htm]
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., by W. M. Thackeray 2511
[Updated edition of: etext01/hnrye10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/1/2511 ]
[Files: 2511.txt; 2511-h.htm]
Stories in Light and Shadow, by Bret Harte 2508
[Contents]
["Unser Karl"]
[Uncle Jim And Uncle Billy]
[See Yup]
[The Desborough Connections]
[Salomy Jane's Kiss]
[The Man And The Mountain]
[The Passing Of Enriquez]
[Updated edition of: etext00/slgts10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/0/2508 ]
[Files: 2508.txt; 2508-h.htm]
Lavengro, by George Borrow 452
[Subtitle: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest]
[Introduction: Augustine Birrell]
[Illus.: E. J. Sullivan]
[Updated edition of: etext96/lvgro10.txt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/4/5/452 ]
[Files: 452.txt; 452-h.htm]
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Parrot & Co., by Harold MacGrath 18443
[Ill.: Andre Castaigne]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18443 ]
[Files: 18443.txt; 18443-8.txt; 18443-h.htm; ]
Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin 18442
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18442 ]
[Files: 18442.txt; 18442-8.txt; 18442-h.htm]
Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore, by Burren Laughlin and L. L. Flood 18441
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18441 ]
[Files: 18441.txt; 18441-h.htm]
Logic, by Carveth Read 18440
[Subtitle: Deductive and Inductive]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/4/18440 ]
[Files: 18440.txt; 18440-8.txt; 18440-0.txt; 18440-h.htm]
What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know, by John Dutton Wright 18439
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/3/18439 ]
[Files: 18439.txt; 18439-8.txt; 18439-h.htm]
Explanation of Catholic Morals, by John H. Stapleton 18438
[Subtitle: A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic]
[Morals]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/3/18438 ]
[Files: 18438.txt; 18438-h.htm; ]
Troublesome Comforts, by Geraldine Glasgow 18437
[Subtitle: A Story for Children]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/3/18437 ]
[Files: 18437.txt; 18437-8.txt; 18437-h.htm; ]
Arnold Bocklin, by Heinrich Alfred Schmid 18436
[Illustrator: Arnold Bocklin]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/3/18436 ]
[Files: 18436-8.txt; 18436-0.txt; 18436-h.htm]
Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus, by Rufus Estes 18435
[Subtitle: A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats,]
[Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/3/18435 ]
[Files: 18435.txt; 18435-h.htm]
A Melody in Silver, by Keene Abbott 18434
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/3/18434 ]
[Files: 18434.txt; 18434-h.htm]
Kultala, by Heinrich Zschokke 18433
[Subtitle: Hydyllinen ja huvittava historia, yhteiselle kansalle]
[luettavaksi annettu]
[Translator: Carl Niclas Keckman]
[Language: Finnish]
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Fowler's Household Helps, by A. L. Fowler 18432
[Subtitle: Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully]
[Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/3/18432 ]
[Files: 18432.txt; 18432-h.htm; ]
Other Worlds, by Garrett P. Serviss 18431
[Subtitle: Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of]
[the Latest Discoveries]
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[Files: 18431.txt; 18431-8.txt; 18431-h.htm; ]
Our Elizabeth, by Florence A. Kilpatrick 18430
[Subtitle: A Humour Novel]
[Illus.: Ernest Forbes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/3/18430 ]
[Files: 18430.txt; 18430-8.txt; 18430-h.htm; ]
Zonnestralen in School en Huis, by Henr. Dietz and Kath. Leopold 18429
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/2/18429 ]
[Files: 18429-8.txt; 18429-h.htm]
The Feast at Solhoug, by Henrik Ibsen 18428
[Tr.: William Archer and Mary Morrison]
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[Files: 18428.txt; ]
Mon frere Yves, by Pierre Loti 18427
[Language: French]
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[Files: 18427-8.txt; 18427-h.htm]
Sunny Slopes, by Ethel Hueston 18426
[Illus.: Arthur William Brown]
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[Files: 18426.txt; 18426-8.txt; 18426-h.htm; ]
Een Kapitein van 15 Jaar, by Jules Verne 18425
[Subtitle: De Walvischjagers]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/2/18425 ]
[Files: 18425-8.txt; 18425-h.htm]
A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 18424
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[Files: 18424.txt; 18424-8.txt; 18424-h.htm]
Old Kaskaskia, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood 18423
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[Files: 18423.txt; 18423-8.txt; 18423-h.htm]
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z, by Various 18422
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[Files: 18422.txt; 18422-8.txt; 18422-h.htm]
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store, by Laura Lee Hope 18421
[Illustrator: Walter S. Rogers]
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[Files: 18421.txt; 18421-h.htm]
The Bobbsey Twins at Home, by Laura Lee Hope 18420
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/2/18420 ]
[Files: 18420.txt; 18420-h.htm; ]
Liberalism and the Social Problem, by Winston Spencer Churchill 18419
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/1/18419 ]
[Files: 18419.txt; 18419-8.txt; 18419-h.htm]
A Crooked Path, by Mrs. Alexander 18418
[Subtitle: A Novel]
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[Files: 18418.txt; 18418-8.txt; 18418-h.htm]
The Great Panjandrum Himself, by Samuel Foote 18417
[Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/1/18417 ]
[Files: 18417.txt; 18417-h.htm]
Histoires incroyables, Tome II, by Jules Lermina 18416
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/1/18416 ]
[Files: 18416-8.txt]
Histoires incroyables, Tome I, by Jules Lermina 18415
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/1/18415 ]
[Files: 18415-8.txt]
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886, by Various 18414
[Editor: Charles Peters]
[Editor: Flora Klickmann]
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[Files: 18414.txt; 18414-8.txt; 18414-h.htm]
Prudence of the Parsonage, by Ethel Hueston 18413
[Illus.: Arthur William Brown]
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[Files: 18413.txt; 18413-8.txt; 18413-h.htm; ]
De Pleiters, by Jean Baptiste Racine 18412
[Translator: Abraham Bogaert]
[Language: Dutch]
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[Files: 18412-8.txt; 18412-0.txt; 18412-h.htm]
Sata runoa, by Various 18411
[Subtitle: Valikoituja maailmankirjallisuudesta]
[Translator: Valter Juva]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/1/18411 ]
[Files: 18411-8.txt; 18411-0.txt]
Isopel Berners, by George Borrow 18400
[Editor: Thomas Seccombe]
[Subtitle: The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle,]
[July, 1825]
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