"Hey, Noah"
Discovered: Noah's Ark? [http://www.livescience.com/history/060309_the_ark.html]
I express no opinion, but it's fun.
Topic
History
A collection of 253 issues
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
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.
>
Sherwood Forest
Ten facts about Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/sense_of_place/facts/sherwood_forest.shtml].
This Day in History
1825. Â Robert Owen, a socialist, announces New Harmony utopian plan in Indiana
to government dignitaries in the Hall of the US House of Representatives.
The later Catholic convert, Orestes Brownson
[http://orestesbrownson.com/index.php], knew Robert Owen and his ilk, even
sending his own son to live
Bernanos
It's George Bernanos' birthday today. Here are a few links to the excellent
fiction writer. General Bio Link [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bernanos.htm].
Crisis Link [http://www.crisismagazine.com/julaug2002/book4.htm]. Welborn on
Diary of a Country Priest [http://www.amywelborn.com/catholicwriters/diary.
This Day in History
Considered from a McLuhanite viewpoint: TAE probably didn't consider that the
phonograph would kill spontaneous group singing at social gatherings. 1878:
Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph. Also: Heavy metal and gangster rap
probably weren't on TAE's mind when he made this breakthrough. If
Shake(r) Rattle and Lathe
Interesting article in The New Yorker about the celibate Shakers, their
history,
and their beautiful wood objects
[http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/060213crat_atlarge]Â (save
the jokes). I'm not sure what prompted Gopnik to write the piece, but it's
different and--as