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The phasmatid illustrations of Caspar Stoll
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Tenodera sinensis,
the Chinese mantis, seen, appropriately, in New York’s Chinatown
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A stalked puffball-in-aspic sounds
delicious, until one realizes it’s a fungus
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The current residents of Burtonmore
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Felines:
Riley,
Michelle,
Leslie,
Gregory,
Colin,
Teddy,
Colleen,
Sydney,
Theresa, and the ferals
Phoebe and
Richard.
Although no longer with us,
Günther
was the father of Michelle’s handsome kyndyll:
Leslie, Colin, Gregory, and Teddy.
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The two Flemish giant bunnies:
Emily and Charlotte
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Some of the special-needs felines, and others of the clowder:
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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
Gillian, an American curl
Michelle, arrived just before the hurricane in 2011
Theresa, adopted two days after Sydney
Taylor
Russell
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Bunnies past, sitting for their holiday pictures:
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Some individual portraits:
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Beau, a lop; he became blind later in life
Clydesdale, an old lop buck who spent his last
few months with us
Étienne, a French Angora
Lars, the lop, as a young buck
Pierre, a lop; he was the quintessential rabbit
Priscilla, a lovely, blue-eyed English Angora
Trevor, a chocolate bunny
Yeti, an Himalayan
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My initial steps towards creating a virtual herbarium;
it will contain mostly plants of Burtonmore and other parts of Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
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Henrietta, a beautiful chicken who had adopted us
The turkey flock in the early spring
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Cameras in my collection, or wanted ...
Rangefinders
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Contax II
Kiev II from 1950
Contax III
Contax IIa
Leica II
FED-I (E) from 1941
Leica IIIc from 1943/1944
Canon MIOJ
Kodak Super-Six 20; my father, amazingly, owned one
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Random pictures ...
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
An 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:
NCIS
[and their NCIS official site],
The Prisoner,
The X-Files timeline,
Babylon 5
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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, MERS, plague, smallpox, viral hemorrhagic fevers, zika?
Get information from the
CDC Global 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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