This is the archive for August 2006
ACTIVITIES:
Girl‘s tennis tryouts after school @ Tennis Courts. Beginners are welcomed and everyone is encouraged to try out.
Anyone interested in playing Boys or Girls Water Polo come to the Pool afterschool. Everyone welcome, no experience required. Come be part of the team.
CLUBS:
Come to Youth Alive‘s first meeting of the year on Tuesday after school in Room 418.
Interested i going to see shows, being in the Fall Play or just hanging out with cool people? Come to the first Drama Club meeting Tuesday after school in the Theater.
Interested in joining Ballet Folklorico Mexicano of Logan? Informational meeting Friday, 9/8 at 3:00 in the Pavilion Dance Studio. See Mr. Huertas in House 1, for more info. Everyone welcome!!
FRESHMAN:
Packets to run for Freshman Class Office are available in Room 476.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Students, you can buy your P.E. clothes at the Billing window during both lunch periods only.
Anyone from Mr. Fletcher‘s Spring class who would like to see the results of your final exam, come by Room 224 after school.
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By Rick LaPlante, Public Information Officer
New Haven Unified School District
UNION CITY - New Haven Unified School District students made solid gains - and in some cases very impressive gains - on the Academic Performance Index (API) and remained well above state standards for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) according to reports released today on tests taken during the 2005-2006 school year.
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Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. She is perhaps best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, a series of novels and short stories featuring an English aristocrat who solves numerous mysteries as an amateur sleuth. His courting of and ultimate marriage with Harriet Vane feature prominently throughout the series.
Read The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy Sayers
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Principal Don Montoya used the Logan public address system Wednesday to welcome thousands of returning students and more than a thousand members of the freshman Class of 2010.
Students lined up to receive their schedules before going to their first classes of the day. (Courier Photo)
Read the text of Principal Don Montoya's address.
Click here to see the daily schedule
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ACTIVITIES:
Anyone interested in playing Boys or Girls Water Polo come to the Pool after school. Everyone welcome, no experience required. Come be part of the team.
Get in shape, join Cross Country! Come to the track at 3:00 each day.
CLUBS:
Interested in joining Ballet Folklorico Mexicano of Logan? Informational meeting Friday, 9/8 at 3:00 in the Pavilion Dance Studio. See Mr. Huertas in House 1, for more info. Everyone welcome!!
The Youth Alive Club is a Christian club that meets every Tuesday after school in Room 418. Come meet new friends and be a part of all that we will be doing this year.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Students, you can buy your P.E. clothes at the Billing window during both lunch periods only.
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Diogenes Laërtius, the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, and by others from the Roman family of the Laërtii.
Read
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius and translated by C.D. Yonge, free from
classicpersuasion.org
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ACTIVITIES:
Anyone interested in playing Boys or Girls Water Polo come to the Pool after school. Everyone welcome, no experience required. Come be part of the team.
Get in shape, join Cross Country! Come to the track at 3:00 each day.
CLUBS:
Interested in joining Ballet Folklorico Mexicano of Logan? Informational meeting Friday, 9/8 at 3:00 in the Pavilion Dance Studio. See Mr. Huertas in House 1, for more info. Everyone welcome!!
The Youth Alive Club is a Christian club that meets every Tuesday after school in Room 418. Come meet new friends and be a part of all that we will be doing this year.
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Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882-August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. Beginning as a cashier in a dry-goods shop in Utica, New York, Kaiser moved many times as he pursued the photographic and hardware businesses, finally settling in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 1912 he began a road paving business in Washington and British Columbia. The Henry J. Kaiser Company, Ltd. was established in Vancouver, B.C., in 1914. In 1921 Kaiser won his first California paving contract and established headquarters in Oakland.
Click the picture to watch Henry Kaiser sign a contract with autoworkers in this 1946 Universal newsreel, along with other news stories of the day, streaming in 256k MPEG 4. For more formats and information,
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Henry J. Kaiser perches above Hawai'i Kai in April 1963, his suburban development in Honolulu. Kaiser spent much of his later years developing the urban landscape of O'ahu.
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Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote
The Call of the Wild and over fifty other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.
Read The Sea Wolf by Jack London, one of
50 of his works available at Project Gutenberg.
Click on the picture above to watch
"The Fighter", a feature film version of Jack London's story, streaming in 256k MPEG4 from the Internet Archive. In the film,released in 1953, starring Richard Conte and directed by Herbert Kline,a young Mexican boxer uses his winnings to buy guns to avenge his family's murder.
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Jack London
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By Melissa M. Scallan
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
GULFPORT, Miss.-Hurricane Katrina was an anomaly, even before she was named.
Katrina is a storm meteorologists likely will study for years to come _ her size, strength and the vastness of her destruction made her the largest natural disaster ever to hit the United States. At her peak intensity, the storm stretched from Lafayette, La., to Panama City, Fla., approximately 325 miles.
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Selkirk, Scotland (March 31, 1844 - July 20, 1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales.
The Andrew Lang lecture at St Andrews university are named for him.
Read Grass of Parnassus by Andrew Lang, one of
68 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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First up we have Popeye the Sailor in "Taxi Turvy," in which Popeye and Bluto both run a taxi service. Bluto bullies Popeye and gets him to turn over all of his cab fares. Popeye eventually gets the better of Bluto. Animation by Tom Johnson and Frank Endres. Music by Winston Sharples. Produced in 1954 and directed by Seymour Kneitel.
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Next we have Betty Boop in "Betty Boop's Big Boss," produced by Max Fleischer in 1933. According to Internet Archive reviewer Christine Hennig:
"It's the height of the Depression, so when Betty Boop sees a "Girl Wanted" sign, she comes on hard to the boss in order to get the job. After she gets hired, the boss comes on hard to her, but before you can say "sexual harassment," she's called out not only every cop in town, but the army and navy, too. This is a wonderfully weird and silly Betty, with anthropomorphic inanimate objects aplenty, and side jokes that you almost miss, such as the cops who are determined to arrest the boss for bad acting. Great fun."
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Asher Ginsberg (1856, Skvyra - 1927), also known by the pen name Ahad Ha'am (also: Achad Ha'am, Echad Ha'am etc.) (Hebrew: one of the people, compare with L.L. Zamenhof's Unuel), was one of the great pre-state Zionist thinkers.
Read Ahad Ha'am's 1897 essay "Jewish State and Jewish Problem."
Ahad Ha'am
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
Addressing a long-standing need, the New Haven Unified School District will hire six additional counselors to serve students at the District's two high schools and three middle schools. Also, when classes resume Wednesday there will be more campus supervision at both the middle schools and at the District's eight elementary schools -- before school, after school and during lunch.
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Hugh Lawson White (October 30, 1773-April 10, 1840) was a prominent American politician during the first third of the 19th century. He succeeded General Jackson and served in the United States Senate, representing Tennessee, from 1825 until his resignation in 1840, and was a Whig candidate for President in 1836.
Hugh Lawson White
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca (January 17, 1600 – May 25, 1681), was an important dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
Calderón was born in Madrid, Spain. His mother, who was of Flemish descent, died in 1610; his father, who was secretary to the treasury, died in 1615. Calderón was educated at the Jesuit College in Madrid, the Colegio Imperial, with a view to taking orders and accepting a family living; abandoning this project, he studied law at Salamanca.
Read
Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca,
one of four of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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By Drew Brown
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON _ The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are stretching the U.S. Marine Corps, forcing the service to take extraordinary measures to bolster both manpower and equipment.
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William Blake (November 28, 1757–August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Though largely unrecognised during his lifetime, today Blake's work, produced in partnership with his wife Catherine, is widely known. According to Northrop Frye, who undertook a study of Blake's entire poetic opus, his prophetic poems form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". Others have praised Blake's visual artistry, in particular his engravings: "[Blake] is far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 1957 a small memorial was erected in memory of him and his wife.
Read
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake,
one of two collections of his work available free from Project Gutenberg.
William Blake
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By Ron Hutcheson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON—President Bush issued an urgent call Monday for nations to join an international peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, and he pledged $230 million to help rebuild the war-ravaged country.
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James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell's surname is often mispronounced "Ka-BELL", he himself pronounced it "CAB-ble". To remind an editor of the correct pronunciation, Cabell composed this rhyme: "Tell the rabble my name is Cabell."
Read Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell,
one of a dozen works availble free from Project Gutenberg.
James Branch Cabell
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By Laurie Goering
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
KIGALI, Rwanda — Sweden and Norway once claimed the world's highest percentage of female lawmakers. Now that distinction belongs to an African nation: Rwanda.
U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Donna Shelton (right) speaks with a Ugandan woman waiting to see a doctor at the Muslim health clinic in Soroti, Uganda, on Aug. 15, 2006, during exercise Natural Fire 2006. The exercise consists of military-to-military training as well as medical, veterinary, and engineering civic affairs programs conducted in rural areas throughout the region. Shelton is an international health specialist assigned to Detachment 2, 311th Human Services Wing. DoD photo by Master Sgt. John E. Lasky, U.S. Air Force.
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Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School who was celebrated in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.
Read Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, one of
four of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Rick Barrett
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)
MILWAUKEE _ The surging demand for ethanol continues to drive construction of plants to make the home-grown fuel additive. It's also fueling farmers' hopes for better corn prices, although some remain skeptical of ethanol's staying power.
Only about 15 percent full this time of year, a warehouse that holds 3.5 million bushels of corn at Utica Energy LLC in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is filled to capacity during the harvest season. About 20 percent of Wisconsin's corn crop is destined for ethanol, which is significant considering the state didn't have an ethanol plant five years ago. (Michael Sears/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MCT)
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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American poet. Being an early advocate of jazz poetry, he became known as the "Prairie Troubador."
Read The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay,
one of four of his poetry collections available free from Project Gutenberg.
Vachel Lindsey in 1912
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By William Mullen
Chicago Tribune
(MCT)
CHICAGO _ A lucky adolescent male bottlenose dolphin is back to living nude and free in Florida's Sarasota Bay after making a potentially fatal wardrobe choice early this summer.
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First we have The Big Bad Wolf, a Castle Films cartoon, in which Little Boy Blue and Scarecrow sing and dance, then Little Bo Peep and her sheep join in. Black Sheep cries "wolf", which causes problems when a real wolf shows up. Animation by U. B. Iwerks. Animation by U. B. Iwerks.
Click the picture to watch the cartoon, streaming in 256k MPEG4, free from the Internet Archive.
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Next we have Private Eye Popeye, a Seymour Kneitel cartoon from 1954. In this one, Olive Oyl is the femme fatale with a valuable, green, glowing jewel in need of protection. Popeye plays private eye and saves the day. Animation by Tom Johnson and Frank Endres. Story by I. Klein. Music by Winston Sharples
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John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. He also is known as the father of functional psychology; he was a leading representative of the progressive movement in U.S. education during the first half of the 20th century; and he was a contributing editor of the
Encyclopeadia for Unified Science, a project of the logical empiricists that was organised by Otto Neurath.
Read John Dewey's book, Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education, free from Project Gutenberg
John Dewey
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By Jim Malone
VOA News
President Bush says he strongly disagrees with a federal judge's decision that the administration's eavesdropping program aimed at suspected terrorists is unconstitutional.
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, simply known as Sallust, (86-34 BC). He was a Roman historian, belonging to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines.
Read
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War, by Sallust, free from
Project Gutenberg.
This statue of Sallust sits near the Austrian Parliment
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By Brian Padden
VOA News
Despite an increased U.S. military presence in Baghdad, there was more sectarian violence Thursday. A car bomb and shooting attacks killed 11 people, and American military authorities now say that the violence in Iraq is at its highest level since the U.S. invasion in 2003.
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By Maya Bell
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
KEY WEST, Fla. _ For more than 40 years, they have lounged on Ernest Hemingway's bed, lolled in his garden, and sipped water from the urinal he dragged home from his favorite saloon—all to the delight of tourists from around the world.
But now the nearly 50 cats at The Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, about half of whom bear a telltale sixth toe on their front paws, are felines non grata—scofflaws who, in the eyes of the federal government, must be better confined or kept under guard.
Ivan, impounded five times this year after scaling the wall at The Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum in Key West, Florida, is ready to leave his cage, where he now spends much time in confinement. (Maya Bell/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
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By Rick LaPlante
New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night held a study session to review information that will help formulate the Superintendent's recommendation on which two schools to close, in accord with the Board's decision to minimize the financial impact of declining enrollment and direct maximum resources to teaching and learning. The Board voted in May to close one elementary school at the start of the 2007-08 school year and one middle school in 2008-09, equating to ongoing cost reductions of approximately $1 million per year.
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By Ely Portillo
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON _ A new recycling initiative could remove tons of potentially deadly mercury from the environment, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, but critics and state administrators of similar programs are questioning whether the program will work, calling it underfunded and unrealistic.
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Eddie Rickenbacker (October 8, 1890 – July 27, 1973) greatly influenced the U.S. in the Twentieth Century, first as an automobile race car driver and automotive designer, then as a hero of World War I, and later as a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation. Rickenbacker participated in many of the most historical events of the Twentieth Century and was known for surviving many serious accidents, his exceptional ambition and personal character, and his service as a American fighter pilot in World War I. During his lifetime, Rickenbacker collaborated with some of the most influential civilian and military leaders of the century. He understood his enemy from friendships with former German fighter aces, Soviet military leaders, and American politicians. He had keen insight into technology, vision for future improvements, and strong principles and social values. Among other events, he participated in or observed:
- the early development of automobiles and auto racing
- air combat in World War I
- the founding of the commercial aviation industry
- Armistice Day on the Western Front
- the Hindenburg explosion
Watch part one of the 1939 serial Ace Drummond, a 13-part film based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond, created by WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, free from the Internet Archive.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Courier Staff Report
The New Haven Unified School District reported today that its students are making "solid, steady progress" according to preliminary STAR (Standardized Testing and Results) scores cited in a press release.
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By Mohamed Elshinnawi
Washington, D.C.—VOA NEWS
10 August 2006
It began in 1994 as a way to give inner-city schoolchildren something safe and productive to do after school. Julie Kennedy, an elementary school in Washington brought in a soccer ball in and invited her kids to stay after school for soccer lessons. But as the weather turned cold, she moved the action inside -- and taught them creative writing instead. With the help of sponsors and volunteers, this simple idea has grown to become a national organization called "America Scores" with affiliates in 15 cities, including the U.S. capital, offering a range of after school programs for inner-city children.
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Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658), Spanish prose writer, was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon).
The son of a doctor, in his childhood Gracián lived with his uncle, who was a priest. He studied at a Jesuit school in Zaragoza from 1616 to 1619 and at the age of 18 became a novice. He studied philosophy at the College of Calatayud in 1621 and 1623 and theology in Zaragoza. He was ordained in 1627 and took his final vows in 1635.
Read Baltasar Gracian's Art of Worldly Wisdom, free from sacred-texts.com.
Baltasar Gracian
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By James Hohmann
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — New at the University of California-Santa Cruz: Not only can students spend gobs of time on computer games, they can major in them, too.
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William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 - December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, college professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during World War II, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the latter through global markets). Deming made a significant contribution to Japan becoming renowned for producing innovative high-quality products. Deming is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage.
Visit the W. Edwards Deming Institute to learn more
W. Edwards Deming
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Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855–November 15, 1950) was an American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.
Read more about Agnes Repplier at the University of Pennsylvania Library website.
Read
Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier,
one of five of her works available free from openlibrary.org.
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By Steve Herman, VOA News
The world's first earthquake early warning system has begun operating in Japan. The government-developed system takes advantage of the precious seconds between the first indication of a powerful tremor and the arrival of the second, destructive terrestrial shock. Some people have reservations about broadcasting such alerts.
If a large earthquake were to strike Japan today, some people would receive advance notice.
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First up today we have a Noveltoon,
Caspar The Friendly Ghost in There's Good Boos Tonight, (1948) in which Caspar makes friends with a little fox, a friendship which comes to a sad ending. Animation by Myron Waldman, Morey Reden and Nick Tafuri. Scenics by Anto Loeb. Story by Bill Turner and Larry Reilly. Music by Winston Sharples. Narrator is Frank Gallop. Produced in 1948.
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Next we have Popeye the Sailor Man in
Ancient Fistory, a Cinderella-like tale in which Olive is the princess and Popeye is the prince. Bluto is the shopowner brute who bullies Olive, only to get taught a lesson by a buff, spinach-eating Prince Popeye. Animation by Al Eugster and William B. Pattengill, story by Irving Spector, scenics by Robert Connavale, and music by Winston Sharples. Produced in 1952.
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André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in-between the two World Wars.
Read André Gide's novel
Isabelle, in French,
one of two of his works available free from Project Gutenberg
André Gide
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By David Byrd, VOA News
The terrorist plot to blow up aircraft flying between Britain and the United States is having repercussions in many airports around the world.
Read the Department of Homeland Security's guidlines for airline passengers.
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French economist and socialist philosopher who was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist" and is considered among the first anarchist thinkers. He was a workingman, a printer, who taught himself to read Latin so as to print books in that language well. Proudhon is most famous for his assertion of "Property is theft!", in his missive
What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government with the original title:
Qu'est-ce que la propriété? Recherche sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement, which was his first major work, published in 1840.
Read
The Philosophy of Misery by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,
one of two of his works available free from
Project Gutenberg
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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By Tom Reed
Akron Beacon Journal (MCT)
AKRON, Ohio _ When Columbus police arrested Maurice Clarett early Wednesday morning for carrying a concealed weapon, the former Ohio State football star was allegedly wearing a bullet-resistant vest.
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Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of
In Search of Lost Time (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as
Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction consisting of seven volumes published over 14 years (the last three volumes were published posthumously).
Read
Swann's Way, volume one of
Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust,
one of ten of his works available from
Project Gutenberg
Marcel Proust
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By Lisa M. Krieger
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — After more than 1,000 years in obscurity, the last unreadable pages of the works of mathematician Archimedes are being deciphered, thanks to the X-ray vision at Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center.
To read more about the Archimedes Palimpsest project,
visit the project's website.
A page from the prayer book and the hidden text revealed by the accelerator.
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José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher.
Born in Madrid, Ortega was first schooled by the Jesuit Fathers of San Estanislao in Miraflores del Palo, Málaga (1891-1897). He attended the University of Deusto, Bilbao (1897-98) and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Complutense University of Madrid (1898-1904), receiving a doctorate in Philosophy. From 1905 to 1907, he continued his studies in Germany at Leipzig, Nuremberg, Cologne, Berlin and, above all Marburg. At Marburg, he was influenced by the neo-Kantianism of Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp, among others.
Read José Ortega y Gasset's book,
Revolt of the Masses, free from
www.4literature.net.
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By Barry Wood
VOA News
The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, Tuesday held short-term interest rates steady, breaking a pattern of 17 consecutive quarter point hike in rates going back over two years. The Fed is worried that more rate increases could push a slowing economy into recession.
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By VOA News
The United States and France are considering possible changes to a draft United Nations resolution aimed at ending the Israel-Hezbollah fighting.
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Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) was a novelist, playwright, essayist and statesman, recognized as the most influential Romantic writer of the 19th century. His best-known works are the novels
Les Misérables and
Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Poetry was another of his vocations: among many volumes,
Les Contemplations and
La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is often identified as the greatest French poet. His works are filled with great power, abundant imagination and beautiful words that become huge features of his works. Furthermore, the complicated as well as touching plots are also the main characteristics that captivate readers' hearts.
Read The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, one of
27 of his works available in French and English free from Project Gutenberg.
Heroic Bust of Victor Hugo by August Rodin, cast in bronze in the 1890s.
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By Crystal Park
VOA News
The world of high fashion, which was once synonymous with expensive couture, used to be affordable only for the rich and famous. But, now, more and more children and young teenagers can be seen wearing clothing with designer labels, such as Louis Vuitton, or Christian Dior.
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American author George Arnold was born in New York City, June 24,1834 and died at Strawberry Farms, New Jersey, November 3, 1865.
While he was still an infant his parents moved to Illinois, but in 1849 returned east to Strawberry Farms. He showed a talent for drawing and joined the studio of a portrait painter in New York. He soon abandoned the idea of becoming an artist, and instead became a writer, contributing to periodicals such as " Vanity Fair," the " Leader," writing stories, poems, sketches, and art criticisms. Some of his poems are remarkably sweet. He was best known during his lifetime as the author of the "McArone" papers, which established his reputation as a humorist. These were begun in "Vanity Fair " in 1860, and continued there and in other papers until his death, and was also the author of several biographical works. During the civil war Mr. Arnold did military duty for a long time at one of the forts on Staten Island. His poems were collected and edited, with a memoir, by William Winter, appearing in two volumes (1867-'68), afterward consolidated in one. The "Jolly Old Pedagogue" is his best-known poem.
Read "Why Thomas Was Discharged," a short story by George Arnold, in Stories By American Authors, available free from Project Gutenberg.
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By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
LIAOZHONG, China—This rural county seat in northeast China has an Internet cafe on almost every street, 63 in total, and most of them are full of young people passing time.
Parked in front of computer screens, they move through virtual dungeons to slay ogres and gather gold in online games.
But it's not mere idleness. Many of the gamers are working.
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Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. He is perhaps best known for his short stories, his most famous being
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and
Rip van Winkle (both appearing in
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon), but he was a prolific writer of essays, biographies, and other forms as well. He and James Fenimore Cooper were the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving is said to have mentored authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Washington Irving Click the video screen to watch an 1889 film version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle, streaming in 256k MPEG. According to Wilford B. Wolf's review posted at the
Internet Archive, the film is "A series of short (about 20-30 sec) scenes that depict the Irving classic "Rip Van Winkle". The first two parts appear to be shot in Edison's studio in New York, which opened up to allow in natural sunlight. The remaining reels, where Van Winkle leaves with the dwarves and drinks to oblivion, appear to be shot outside."
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Read Washington Irving's
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West, one of
18 of his works available from Project Gutenberg
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By Steven Rea and Carrie Rickey
The Philadelphia Inquirer
(MCT)
ARMY OF SHADOWS 4 stars. Jean-Pierre Melville's taut 1969 study of the French Resistance movement during World War II — and a small band of men (and a few women) who risked to fight the Nazi occupation — is nothing short of a masterpiece. 2 hrs. 25 No MPAA rating (violence, profanity, adult themes) — Steven Rea.
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First up we have the story of Gabby, who tries to put a diaper on a cranky baby. Animation by David Tendlar and William Nolan. Music by Sammy Timberg. Produced in 1941.
Click the picture to view the cartoon, streaming in 256k MPEG. For more information and format choices,
click here. Free from the Internet Archive
Next we have the story of Hector, a messy family dog that is told by its owner that it will be thrown out in the cold, after three puppies show up on the doorstep, complicating the dog's life. The owner, thinking the dog is responsible for the mess, finally discovers the puppies and all ends well. Animation by George Germanetti and Steve Muffatti. Story by Joe Stultz and Larry Riley. Scenics by Robert Connavale. Music by Winston Sharples. Produced in 1948.
Click the picture to view the cartoon, streaming in 256k MPEG. Click
here for more information and format choices. Free from the
Internet Archive.
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Colette was the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (January 28, 1873
Read Colette's
Barks and Purrs, one of
three of her books available free from
Project Gutenberg.
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By VOA News
More than 100,000 Shi'ite followers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have marched in Baghdad in support of Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.
The protesters, clad in white shrouds to symbolize a willingness to die, marched through the streets of Baghdad's Sadr City district Friday, bearing yellow Hezbollah flags. They chanted slogans in support of the militia's battle against Israel.
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By Frances Robles and Martin Merzer
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MIAMI _ Cuban President Fidel Castro is in stable condition and recovering from surgery to stop intestinal bleeding, Cuban officials said Tuesday, but they issued no new photos of the 79-year-old dictator and provided little new information about his illness.
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James Anthony Froude (Froude rhymes with rood) (April 23, 1818 – October 20, 1894) was an English historian. He was the brother of the Anglo-Catholic polemicist Richard Hurrell Froude and of William Froude, the engineer and naval architect.
Read James A. Froude's
Froudacity:West Indian Fables, one of
six of his works available free from
Project Gutenberg.
Caricature of Froude from Punch, December 30 1882, page 303.
Artwork by Edward Linley Sambourne
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By Tony Pugh
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
WASHINGTON – Acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach testified Tuesday that he decided non-prescription sales of the emergency contraceptive, Plan B, should be limited to women aged 18 and older even though the agency determined in 2005 that the drug could safely be sold over-the-counter to 17-year-olds.
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By Jill Zuckman
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
WASHINGTON – Anxious to protect vulnerable Republicans facing voters in November, House GOP leaders gave the go-ahead for a vote early Saturday on raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D, San Francisco, calls the GOP's move a "political stunt."
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Christopher Morley (5 May 1890–28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, and poet.
Read Christopher Morely's 1919 novel,
The Haunted Bookshop, one of
eight of his works available free from
Project Gutenberg.
Christopher Morley
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By VOA News
Israeli forces are engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas on the ground near a Hezbollah stronghold in the Bekaa Valley, along the Syrian border.
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By Iona Childers, staff writer
Photos by Iona Childers
Last weekend, I went to the 2006 Gilroy Garlic Festival in the garlic capital of California and, quite possibly, the world. The 28th annual festival which always runs for the last full weekend in July, this year was held July 28-30.
I've been to this particular festival two times in the past and I'm glad that this time was less hot than other times. After a two-hour drive south from the Bay Area (mostly because the entrance to the festival grounds was backed up a couple of miles), we got to the good stuff.
Visit the Gilroy Garlic Festival's website
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By VOA News
Cuba's President Fidel Castro has fallen ill and handed power to his brother, but the Cuban government says he is only stepping aside temporarily.
Fidel Castro
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