Eric Scheske

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Great Opportunity

Looking to stretch your charitable horizons? Try this website: PrisonerLife dot Com [http://www.prisonerlife.com/index.cfm]. There are all sorts of links that let you reach out to prisoners, like this one: MEET REAL PRISONERS SEEKING REAL PEN PALS [http://www.prisonerlife.com/personals-picsearch.cfm]. I think women

Chesterton in Russia

Every so often, you run across an odd little piece. Here, I've found an odd big piece [http://www.roadtoemmaus.net/G.K._Chesterton_in_Russia.pdf] at Road to Emmaus [http://www.roadtoemmaus.net/articleextracts.html] magazine's website. It's a collection of writings

Historical Miniature

On pretty Eva Braun [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2097514,00.html]. Excerpt: > Eva twice tried to kill herself: in November 1932, she shot herself in the throat, but missed the jugular. Then, in 1935, she tried again, this time with sleeping pills. Her reason, both times,

Age Gauge

A friend sent this [http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html] along. It's an age gauge. It calculates in a split second. Pretty cool.

Historical Miniatures

The short stories behind 20 Muslim inventions [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article350594.ece]. Good stuff. I especially liked the story of soap. I guess the effects of the Battle of Tours [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours] can still be smelled to this day:

"Hey, Noah"

Discovered: Noah's Ark? [http://www.livescience.com/history/060309_the_ark.html] I express no opinion, but it's fun.

Wyndham

I like the little literary anecdotes. I found this one in The Ong Reader. If you know about Wyndham Lewis' [http://www.wyndhamlewis.com/biog.html] challenging personality, you'll get a kick out of it: > Marshall McLuhan tells this story on himself. He and his wife

Historical Miniature

Great little piece about Timbuktu, the white man's greed and the swarthy man's duplicity. WaPo Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201486.html] . Excerpt: > Timbuktu . . . was and is a real place, as Frank T. Kryza writes, "easily located on

Hats Off!

This day in history: 1955 -- Elvis Presley makes his television debut on the regionally telecast "The Louisiana Hayride."

The Importance of Biography

Inkwell has a great post this morning [http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/default.asp]: > New York Times columnist David Brooks has made a list of things a student can do to get a good education, even if she is forced to attend an inadequate school such as Harvard. >