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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 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:
Molly
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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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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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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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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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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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