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Order Phasmatodea,
my preliminary work towards an archive for systematics and morphology of stick-insects
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Tenodera sinensis,
the Chinese mantis, seen, appropriately, in New York’s Chinatown
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Some of the special-needs felines, and others:
Bambi, just the Special Cat
Linus, lived with 4+ mitral regurgitation
Sebastian, a lynx point Siamese, came to us
when his owner had to enter hospice
Frank, FIV+ and diabetic
Geordi, FIV+
Maximilian Frederick LeChat
Neville, a feral who domesticated himself
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The warren, sitting for their holiday pictures:
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Some individual portraits:
Clydesdale, an old lop buck who spent his last
few months with us
Priscilla, a lovely, blue-eyed English Angora
Étienne, a French Angora
Lars, the lop, as a young buck
Beau, a lop; he became blind later in life
Pierre, a lop; he was the quintessential rabbit
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Henrietta, a beautiful chicken who had adopted us
The turkey flock in the early spring
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Some of my cameras
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Pictures around AMC:
fall moon in daylight
| fallen leaves
| Canada geese
| early morning rainbow
beyond the trees
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Harri Perälä presents his
studies on the works of Tolkien
The tongues of Arda serves as a comprehensive
prolegomenon to Tolkien’s languages
Most ambitious is the Encyclopedia of Arda
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If you like things linguistic, as I do, you will spend a lot of time exploring
the many nooks and crannies of
Simon Ager’s Omniglot site
Beowulf, in hypertext
The Epic of Gilgamesh, in translation
and as Andrew George’s synoptic transliterations;
the Project Gutenberg e-Book of
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
A succinct introduction to Unicode
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Some interesting computer optical illusions
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The Harvard Law School Library Nuremberg Trials Project
has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International
Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT)
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Full text of:
Also
sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
Märchen
der Gebrüder Grimm
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Some of my favorites TV sites have vanished into the mists; these still live:
The Prisoner,
The X-Files timeline,
Babylon 5,
Crusade,
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
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The homepage of the
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
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Concerned about anthrax, plague, smallpox, viral hemorrhagic fevers?
Get information from the
CDC Public Health Preparedness and Response page
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Full text of the Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the
Committee on Government Operations (
McCarthy Hearing Executive Sessions, 1953-54 )
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Do you know where the
tantalum in your cell phone comes from?
Here is the NPR Radio Expeditions
account of coltan (coloumbo-tantalite) mining in eastern Congo.
Lost from the web is the full
United Nations report on exploitation in the Congo.
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For some non-governmental background on Afghani history and culture, visit
Afghanistan Online, a private web site
operated from within the United States
News from BBC Pashto
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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