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Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton 130
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The Tale of Solomon Owl, by Arthur Scott Bailey 16663
[Illustrator: Harry L. Smith]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/6/16663 ]
[Files: 16663.txt; 16663-8.txt; 16663-h.htm; 16663-0.txt; 16663-pdf.pdf;
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Your Boys, by Gipsy Smith 16495
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Autobiography of St. Thrse of Lisieux, by Thrse Martin (of Lisieux) 16772
[Full title: The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une me): The]
[Autobiography of St. Thrse of Lisieux]
[Subtitle: With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thrse]
[Translator: Thomas Taylor]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/7/16772 ]
[Files: 16772.txt; 16772-8.txt]
Jacqueline of Golden River, by H. M. Egbert 16771
[Illustrator: Ralph Pallen Coleman]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/7/16771 ]
[Files: 16771.txt; 16771-8.txt; 16771-h.htm]
The Adventure of Two Dutch Dolls and a 'Golliwogg', by Bertha Upton 16770
[Illustrator: Florence K. Upton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/7/16770 ]
[Files: 16770.txt; 16770-h.htm]
Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton 16769
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16769 ]
[Files: 16769.txt; 16769-8.txt; 16769-0.txt; 16769-h.htm]
The History of Sumatra, by William Marsden 16768
[Subtitle: Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And
Manners Of The Native Inhabitants]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16768 ]
[Files: 16768.txt; 16768-8.txt; 16768-h.htm]
Half-hours with the Telescope, by Richard A. Proctor 16767
[Subtitle: Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a]
[Means of Amusement and Instruction.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16767 ]
[Files: 16767.txt; 16767-8.txt; 16767-h.htm]
All on the Irish Shore, by E. Somerville and Martin Ross 16766
[Subtitle: Irish Sketches]
[Illustrator: E. Somerville]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16766 ]
[Files: 16766.txt; 16766-8.txt; 16766-h.htm]
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8), by Procopius 16765
[Author AKA: Procopius of Caesarea (6th century)]
[Subtitle: The Vandalic War ]
[Tr.: H. B. Dewing]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16765 ]
[Files: 16765.txt; 16765-8.txt; 16765-h.htm; ]
History of the Wars, Books I and II (of 8), by Procopius 16764
[Author AKA: Procopius of Caesarea (6th century)]
[Subtitle: The Persian War]
[Tr.: H. B. Dewing]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16764 ]
[Files: 16764.txt; 16764-8.txt; 16764-h.htm; ]
"Say Fellows--", by Wade C. Smith 16763
[Subtitle: Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16763 ]
[Files: 16763.txt; 16763-h.htm; ]
Chronicles (2 of 6): England, Scotland & Ireland (6 of 12), Holinshed 16762
[Title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):
England (6 of 12): Richard the First]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16762 ]
[Files: 16762-8.txt; 16762-0.txt; 16762-h.htm]
Chronicles (2 of 6): England, Scotland & Ireland (5 of 12), Holinshed 16761
[Title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):
England (5 of 12): Henrie the Second]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16761 ]
[Files: 16761-8.txt; 16761-0.txt; 16761-h.htm]
Chronicles (2 of 6): England, Scotland & Ireland (4 of 12), Holinshed 16760
[Title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):
England (4 of 12): Stephan Earle Of Bullongne]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/6/16760 ]
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The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes, Thomas a Kempis 16759
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[Subtitle: Le Peinture en 1863]
[Language: French]
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Life of John Milton, by Richard Garnett 16757
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Reis door Griekenland, by Anonymous 16755
[Subtitle: De Aarde en Haar Volken, 1887]
[Language: Dutch]
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Kuusten juurella, by Heikki Merilinen 16754
[Subtitle: Romaani]
[Language: Finnish]
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The Colored Regulars in the United States Army, by T. G. Steward 16750
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6), Raphael Holinshed 16749
[Full title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):]
[England (3 of 12)]
[Subtitle: Henrie I.]
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[Full title: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):]
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[Subtitle: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861]
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Pratt's Practical Pointers, by Pratt Food Co 16744
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Aventures du capitaine Corcoran, by Alfred Assollant 16743
[Title: Aventures merveilleuses mais authentiques du capitaine Corcoran,
Premire Partie]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/4/16743 ]
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Dan Merrithew, by Lawrence Perry 16742
[Illustrator: J. V. McFall]
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Aunt Phillis's Cabin, by Mary H. Eastman 16741
[Subtitle: Or, Southern Life As It Is]
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The Busie Body, by Susanna Centlivre 16740
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The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses, by Henry Drummond 16739
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[Files: 16739.txt; 16739-8.txt; 16739-h.htm]
Chronicles (2 of 6): England, Scotland & Ireland (1 of 12), Holinshed 16738
[Title: Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6):
England (1 of 12), William the Conqueror]
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[Files: 16738-8.txt; 16738-0.txt; 16738-h.htm]
International Language, by Walter J. Clark 16737
[Subtitle: Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and
Grammar]
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[Files: 16737-8.txt; 16737-0.txt; 16737-h.htm]
Books and Culture, by Hamilton Wright Mabie 16736
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Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems, by James Avis Bartley 16735
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Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker Eddy 16734
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Montlivet, by Alice Prescott Smith 16733
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Familiar Quotations, ed. by John Bartlett 16732
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The Garden of the Plynck, by Karle Wilson Baker 16731
[Illustrator: Florence Minard]
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Mike Fletcher, by George Moore (George Augustus Moore) 16730
[Subtitle: A Novel]
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Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, by Thomas Henry Huxley 16729
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Vuonna 2000, by Edward Bellamy 16694
[Subtitle: Katsaus vuoteen 1887]
[Translator: J. K. Kari]
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EVOLUTION LAWSUIT OPENS IN PENNSYLVANIA
from The New York Times (Registration Required)
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 26 - Intelligent design is not science, has no
support from any major American scientific organization and does not belong
in a public school science classroom, a prominent biologist testified on the
opening day of the nation's first legal battle over whether it is permissible
to teach the fledgling "design" theory as an alternative to evolution.
"To my knowledge, every single scientific society that has taken a position
on this issue has taken a position against intelligent design and in favor
of evolution," said the biologist, Kenneth R. Miller, a professor at Brown
University and the co-author of the widely used high school textbook "Biology."
Eleven parents in the small town of Dover, just south of here, are suing
their school board for introducing intelligent design in the ninth-grade
biology curriculum. The parents accuse the board of injecting religious
creationism into science classes in the guise of intelligent design.
Professor Miller, their main expert witness, was the only person to take
the stand on Monday.
http://tinyurl.com/dpds7
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"You know that the arrest of Mr. Safavian, one of three known Abramoff
alumni to migrate into the administration, is the start of something big.
Alberto Gonzales's Justice Department announced it only after Mr. Safavian
had appeared in court and had been released without bail. The gambit was
clearly intended to keep the story off television, and it worked."
"Safavian's arrest comes less than a year after a high-level Air Force
procurement official, Darleen Druyun, went to prison for trading
favorable multibillion-dollar contracts for a top job with Boeing Co."
Safavian was in charge of procurement of all the hurrican relief
until he was brought up on charges. The specific charges are that
he lied to a General Services Administration Ethics Officer,
and other investigators about the Abramoff Scottish golf junket.
In addition there were properties owned by the US government
in DC and MD that were allegedly going to be sold to Safavian
for his own private development plans.
Safavian and Abramoff worked at Preston Gates Ellis' law firm
starting in early 1995. They both moved to the area of various
gambling interests, including Indian casinos in later in the 90s.
Safavian's wife, Jennifer is Chief Counsel for Oversight and
Investigations on the House Government Reform Committee,
which is chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. Abramoff was recently
indicted on fraud and conspiracy charges by a federal grand jury,
re: attempts to buy a number of Flordia gaming ships, and is still
under Conngressional investigation for alegedly swindling millions
from the very Indian tribes he was hired by as their lobbyist.
The New York Times 9/25
[Remember that in the news business, Friday is called "Garbage Day."
Stories that are meant not to be reported are done or released on a
Friday so that by Monday, when everyone is back in the news loop,
the story is already dead. The charges were filed Friday Sept. 16,
and it was very quietly all over by Monday morning.]
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
"Many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway,"
she said after touring the Astrodome, "so this is working very well for them.")
Barbara Bush, as quoted in the New York Times 9/25
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"To my knowledge, every single scientific society that has taken a position
on this issue has taken a position against intelligent design and in favor
of evolution," said the biologist, Kenneth R. Miller, a professor at Brown
University and the co-author of the widely used high school textbook "Biology."
[Previously, there has been no report that this was so unanimous.]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
More than 50% of the US populations lives within 50 miles of a coastline.
". . .authorities were sufficiently concerned about hurricanes that
last year they pre-positioned 10,000 body bags in New Orleans."
New York Times 9/25
*
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"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
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
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=-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
.:: Minor corrections have been made to the following, and a TEI master
file for each was used to generate all included files:
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary, by Anne Warner 15775
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/7/7/15775 ]
[Files: 15775.txt; 15775-8.txt; 15775-0.txt; 15775-pdf.pdf; 15775-h.htm;
15775-tei.tei]
True Stories of History and Biography, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 15697
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/6/9/15697 ]
[Files: 15697.txt; 15697-8.txt; 15697-0.txt; 15697-h.htm; 15697-pdf.pdf;
15697-tei.tei]
Judith of the Plains, by Marie Manning 15573
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/5/7/15573 ]
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15573-tei.tei]
.:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements:
Incorrectly listed last week as #16691:
Five Months on a German Raider, by Frederic George Trayes 16690
[Subtitle: Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf']
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16690 ]
[Files: 16690.txt; 16690-8.txt; 16690-h.htm; ]
-=-=-=-=[ 35 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
A Catechism of Familiar Things, by Benziger Brothers 16728
[Full title: A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the]
[Events Which Led to Their Discovery]
[Subtitle: With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural]
[Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged]
[and Revised Edition.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16728 ]
[Files: 16728.txt; 16728-8.txt; 16728-h.htm]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 25th, 1920, by Various 16727
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16727 ]
[Files: 16727.txt; 16727-8.txt; 16727-h.htm]
Four Weird Tales, by Algernon Blackwood 16726
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16726 ]
[Files: 16726.txt; 16726-h.htm]
Sprookjes van Jean Mac, by Jean Mac 16725
[Illustrator: Jan Wiegman]
[Translator: Hermanna]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16725 ]
[Files: 16725-8.txt; 16725-h.htm]
The Campaign of 1760 in Canada, by Chevalier Johnstone 16724
[Subtitle: A Narrative Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16724 ]
[Files: 16724.txt; 16724-h.htm]
Mooses ja hnen hevosensa, by Heikki Merilinen 16723
[Subtitle: Romaani]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16723 ]
[Files: 16723-8.txt]
Americans and Others, by Agnes Repplier 16722
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16722 ]
[Files: 16722.txt; 16722-h.htm]
A Place so Foreign, by Cory Doctorow 16721C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16721 ]
[Files: 16721-8.txt; ]
Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster, by F. Marion Crawford 16720
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/2/16720 ]
[Files: 16720.txt; 16720-8.txt; 16720-h.htm; ]
The Husbands of Edith, by George Barr McCutcheon 16719
[Ill.: Harrison Fisher]
[Decorated by Theodore B Hapgood (1871-1938) designed book covers,]
[bookplates, posters, and a set of type ornaments, known as Hapgood]
[florets.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16719 ]
[Files: 16719.txt; 16719-8.txt; 16719-h.htm; ]
Mineralogia Polygotta, by Christian Keferstein 16718
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16718 ]
[Files: 16718-8.txt; 16718-h.htm; ]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920, Various 16717
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16717 ]
[Files: 16717.txt; 16717-8.txt; 16717-h.htm]
The Going of the White Swan, by Gilbert Parker 16716
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16716 ]
[Files: 16716.txt; 16716-8.txt; 16716-h.htm]
Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature, by Margaret Ball 16715
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16715 ]
[Files: 16715.txt; 16715-8.txt; 16715-h.htm]
Under Sealed Orders, by H. A. Cody 16714
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16714 ]
[Files: 16714.txt; 16714-8.txt; ]
Amusements in Mathematics, by Henry Ernest Dudeney 16713
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16713 ]
[Files: 16713.txt; 16713-8.txt; 16713-h.htm]
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy, by George Santayana 16712
[Subtitle: Five Essays]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16712 ]
[Files: 16712.txt; 16712-8.txt; 16712-h.htm]
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary, John Kline 16711
[Subtitle: Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk]
[Editor: Benjamin Funk]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16711 ]
[Files: 16711.txt; 16711-8.txt; 16711-h.htm]
Les Deux Gentilshommes de Vrone, by William Shakespeare 16710
[Translator: Franois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/1/16710 ]
[Files: 16710-8.txt; 16710-h.htm]
Contes rapides, by Franois Coppe 16709
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16709 ]
[Files: 16709-8.txt; 16709-h.htm]
Kuolleet omenapuut, by Joel Lehtonen 16708
[Subtitle: Runollista proosaa]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16708 ]
[Files: 16708-8.txt]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920, by Various 16707
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16707 ]
[Files: 16707.txt; 16707-8.txt; 16707-h.htm]
Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger, by Lowe and Rand 16706
[Title: A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger]
[Subtitle: A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved
in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York]
[Author: Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16706 ]
[Files: 16706.txt; 16706-8.txt; 16706-0.txt; 16706-h.htm]
A Wanderer in Venice, by E.V. Lucas 16705
[Illustrator: Harry Morley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16705 ]
[Files: 16705.txt; 16705-8.txt; 16705-h.htm]
Adventures in Southern Seas, by George Forbes 16704
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century]
[ATTENTION INDEXERS--The transcriber thinks the George Forbes who wrote]
[this is NOT the George Forbes in the PG catalog, although the LOC]
[attributes the book to Forbes 1849-1936. I cannot resolve the question.]
[The transcriber's note is as follows: "About the author George Forbes I]
[can find almost nothing. I am fairly certain that it is NOT George Forbes]
[(1849-1936), the Scottish engineer who wrote popular science books,]
[including one on astronomy in the PG list. There is a copy of "Adventures]
[.." in the National Library of Australia and the British Library but no]
[biographical information; all the many reference works I have consulted do]
[not mention him. From references made in his "introductory" to the]
[Mitchell Library in Sydney, I think he wrote the book in Australia, though]
[it was published in Britain. He may be the same George Forbes who]
[published a history of Sydney in the 1920s, but again no biographical info]
[- a man of mystery!"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16704 ]
[Files: 16704.txt; ]
A Comedy of Masks, by Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore 16703
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16703 ]
[Files: 16703.txt; 16703-8.txt; ]
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 1, Jan. 9, 1915 16702
[Title: The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1,
January 9, 1915]
[Subtitle: What Americans Say to Europe]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16702 ]
[Files: 16702.txt; 16702-8.txt; 16702-h.htm; ]
Het Leven der Dieren, by A. E. Brehm 16701
[Subtitle: Deel I, Hoofdstuk 1. De Apen]
[Editor: S. P. Huizinga]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16701 ]
[Files: 16701-8.txt; 16701-h.htm]
The Ancient Church, by W.D. [William Dool] Killen 16700
[Subtitle: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/7/0/16700 ]
[Files: 16700.txt; 16700-8.txt]
Glen of the High North, by H. A. Cody 16699
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16699 ]
[Files: 16699.txt; 16699-8.txt; ]
The King's Arrow, by H. A. Cody 16698
[Subtitle: A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16698 ]
[Files: 16698.txt; 16698-8.txt; ]
Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, by Baha'u'llah 16697C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/6/16666 ]
[Files: 16697.txt; 16697-8.txt; 16697-0; 16697-h.htm; 16697-pdf.pdf;
16697-tei.tei]
Leiarvsir stamlum, by Jnna Sigrur Jnsdttir 16696
[Subtitle: II. fyrir ungar stlkur]
[Language: Icelandic]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/9/16696 ]
[Files: 16696-8.txt; 16696-0.txt; 16696-h.htm]
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816, by Julian S. Corbett 16695
[Subtitle: Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX]
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"After Katrina, the FEMA Web site directing charitable contributions
prominently listed Operation Blessing, a Pat Robertson kitty that,
according to I.R.S. documents obtained by ABC News, has given more
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He was in the hospital with kidney stones.
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Australian, Australia 9/18
Times of India, India 9/19
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
Correction: that strange non-word mentioned last week
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To lie to the police is a crime.
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New Orleans will try to have usual Mardi Gras celebration.
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http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/
and
A good summary of the various predictions of the effects of a hurricane
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[Tyco CEO and CFO]
Borsa-Italia.Net, Italy 9/21
HoweStreet.com, Canada 9/20
Australian Financial Review 9/21
[Large fines for white collar criminals are not making the headlines
the way they used to, these were hardly mentioned, and no mention of
whether the fines would make it into the record books or not.]
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Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"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
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
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May 2000 The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky[Dostoyevsky #2][gamblxxx.xxx] 2197
[Tr.: C.J. Hogarth]
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This "cost" is down from about $.72 when we had 13,848 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 17,170 eBooks in 34 Years and 02.50 Months We Averaged
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41.8 Per Month
1.37 Per Day
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60 Per Week
260 Per Month
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districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
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45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to
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possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I
presume this is in addition to previous adjustments.
Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures,
perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time
between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth.
In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this
normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found
on the subject of the current Special Census.
If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but
rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it
is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this
might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen
300 million go by some time ago.
For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm
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Jun 2000 Kim, by Rudyard Kipling [Rudyard Kipling #10] [kimrkxxx.xxx] 2226
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Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Y Chromosome [#24] [0yhgpxxx.xxx] 2224
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May 2000 Stories from Pentamerone, by Giambattista Basile [pntmnxxx.xxx] 2198
May 2000 The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky[Dostoyevsky #2][gamblxxx.xxx] 2197
[Tr.: C.J. Hogarth]
May 2000 An Iceland Fisherman, by Pierre Loti [icfshxxx.xxx] 2196
[Tr.: M. Jules Cambon]
May 2000 The Master of Mrs. Chilvers by Jerome K. Jerome 19[mschlxxx.xxx] 2195
May 2000 Mauprat, by George Sand [Tr.: Stanley Young] #1[muprtxxx.xxx] 2194
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1.1 Trillion eBooks Given Away
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,467,922,438 that would be 17,170 x 64,679,224 = ~1.1 Trillion !!!
With 17,170 eBooks online as of September 21, 2005 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.91 from each book.
1% of the world population is 64,679,224 x 17,170 x $.90 = ~$1 Trillion]
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
6,467,922,438
64,679,224
With 17,170 eBooks online as of September 21, 2005 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.58 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.72 when we had 13,848 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 17,170 eBooks in 34 Years and 02.50 Months We Averaged
~502 Per Year
41.8 Per Month
1.37 Per Day
At 2214 eBooks Done In The 250 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
8.5 Per Day
60 Per Week
260 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear,
are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a
bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census"
is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more
people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source.
45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to
this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a
possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I
presume this is in addition to previous adjustments.
Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures,
perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time
between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth.
In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this
normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found
on the subject of the current Special Census.
If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but
rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it
is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this
might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen
300 million go by some time ago.
For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks'
production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was
the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon.
This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week.
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
PANASONIC LAUNCHES LINUX COLLABORATION CENTER
Motivated by a desire to foster standardized software architectures,
Panasonic has launched a Linux incubator at its Digital Concepts
Center, located in San Jose, California. Brad McManus, director of the
Digital Concepts Center, said that Panasonic sees much to be gained in
developing technologies on standard architectures, which would minimize
problems of incompatibility among products. The Linux Collaboration
Center will focus primarily on middleware and applications but will
also consider projects that address user interfaces and ubiquitous
networking. McManus said the new Linux center aims to establish
relationships with four or five start-up companies developing consumer
electronics. In exchange, Panasonic will have first right of refusal
for a portion of the companies' institutional funding.
eWeek, 14 September 2005
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Hurricane Hits Norway:
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4863
*
"After Katrina, the FEMA Web site directing charitable contributions
prominently listed Operation Blessing, a Pat Robertson kitty that,
according to I.R.S. documents obtained by ABC News, has given more
than half of its yearly cash donations to Mr. Robertson's Christian
Broadcasting Network. If FEMA is that cavalier about charitable donations,
imagine what it's doing with the $62 billion (so far) of taxpayers' money
sent its way for Katrina relief."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18rich.html?hp
*
Why was Karl Rove not more involved with the White House
positioning on Katrina?
He was in the hospital with kidney stones.
Sources:
Baraboo News Republic, WI 9/21
Press-Enterprise, CA 9/19
New York Daily News, NY 9/16
Australian, Australia 9/18
Times of India, India 9/19
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
Correction: that strange non-word mentioned last week
should have been attributed to:
The New Oxford American Dictionary
^^^^^^^^
NOT
The New Oxford English Dictionary
^^^^^^^
[Another possible correction, as to the source of the
two photographs and captions mentioned last week:
some say only one of them was genuinely from the AP,
Associated Press, though the person suggesting the
correction didn't clarify further, though this URL,
<http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/looters.asp>
was provided for more details, which credited BOTH
to the AP: "The Associated Press has separately
captioned two photos of looters. . . ."]
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
To lie to the police is a crime.
For them to lie to you is not.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
New Orleans will try to have usual Mardi Gras celebration.
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
[As requested, adding in URL and credit lines when possible.]
More data from our readers about pre-Katrina warnings:
>From 2002, concering the New Orleans area:
"THE BIG ONE A major hurricane could decimate the region, but flooding from
even a moderate storm could kill thousands. It's just a matter of time."
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/
and
A good summary of the various predictions of the effects of a hurricane
on New Orleans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_of_hurricane_risk_for_New_Orleans
[Sent in by Martin Ward <Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk>]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
"Kozlowski and Swartz to pay nearly $240 million in fines and resitution."
[Tyco CEO and CFO]
Borsa-Italia.Net, Italy 9/21
HoweStreet.com, Canada 9/20
Australian Financial Review 9/21
[Large fines for white collar criminals are not making the headlines
the way they used to, these were hardly mentioned, and no mention of
whether the fines would make it into the record books or not.]
*
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"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
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
[This week it's not a poem, but a Cherokee Indian tale.]
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that
goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 "wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,
false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:
"Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
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