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On this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop welcomes Jessica Talisman, a senior information architect deeply immersed in the worlds of taxonomy, ontology, and knowledge management. The conversation spans the evolution of libraries, the shifting nature of public and private access to knowledge, and the role of institutions like the Internet Archive in preserving digital history. They also explore the fragility of information in the digital age, the ongoing battle over access to knowledge, and how AI is shaping—and being shaped by—structured data and knowledge graphs. To connect with Jessica Talisman, you can reach her via LinkedIn. Check out this GPT we trained on the conversation!Timestamps00:05 – Libraries, Democracy, Public vs. Private Knowledge Jessica explains how libraries have historically shifted between public and private control, shaping access to knowledge and democracy.00:10 – Internet Archive, Cyberattacks, Digital Preservation Stewart describes visiting the Internet Archive post-cyberattack, sparking a discussion on threats to digital preservation and free information.00:15 – AI, Structured Data, Ontologies, NIH, PubMed Jessica breaks down how AI trains on structured data from sources like NIH and PubMed but often lacks alignment with authoritative knowledge.00:20 – Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee They explore how linked data enables machines to understand connections between knowledge, referencing the vision behind the semantic web.00:25 – Entity Management, Cataloging, Provenance, Authority Jessica explains how libraries are transitioning from cataloging books to managing entities, ensuring provenance and verifiable knowledge.00:30 – Digital Dark Ages, Knowledge Loss, Corporate Control Stewart compares today's deletion of digital content to historical knowledge loss, warning about the fragility of digital memory.00:35 – War on Truth, Book Bans, Algorithmic Bias, Censorship They discuss how knowledge suppression—from book bans to algorithmic censorship—threatens free access to information.00:40 – AI, Search Engines, Metadata, Schema.org, RDF Jessica highlights how AI and search engines depend on structured metadata but often fail to prioritize authoritative sources.00:45 – Power Over Knowledge, Open vs. Closed Systems, AI Ethics They debate the battle between corporations, governments, and open-source efforts to control how knowledge is structured and accessed.00:50 – Librarians, AI Misinformation, Knowledge Organization Jessica emphasizes that librarians and structured knowledge systems are essential in combating misinformation in AI.00:55 – Future of Digital Memory, AI, Ethics, Information Access They reflect on whether AI and linked data will expand knowledge access or accelerate digital decay and misinformation.Key InsightsThe Evolution of Libraries Reflects Power Struggles Over Knowledge: Libraries have historically oscillated between being public and private institutions, reflecting broader societal shifts in who controls access to knowledge. Jessica Talisman highlights how figures like Andrew Carnegie helped establish the modern public library system, reinforcing libraries as democratic spaces where information is accessible to all. However, she also notes that as knowledge becomes digitized, new battles emerge over who owns and controls digital information.The Internet Archive Faces Systematic Attacks on Knowledge: Stewart Alsop shares his firsthand experience visiting the Internet Archive just after it had suffered a major cyberattack. This incident is part of a larger trend in which libraries and knowledge repositories worldwide, including those in Canada, have been targeted. The conversation raises concerns that these attacks are not random but part of a broader, well-funded effort to undermine access to information.AI and Knowledge Graphs Are Deeply Intertwined: AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), rely on structured data sources such as knowledge graphs, ontologies, and linked data. Talisman explains how institutions like the NIH and PubMed provide openly available, structured knowledge that AI systems train on. Yet, she points out a critical gap—AI often lacks alignment with real-world, authoritative sources, which leads to inaccuracies in machine-generated knowledge.Libraries Are Moving From Cataloging to Entity Management: Traditional library systems were built around cataloging books and documents, but modern libraries are transitioning toward entity management, which organizes knowledge in a way that allows for more dynamic connections. Linked data and knowledge graphs enable this shift, making it easier to navigate vast repositories of information while maintaining provenance and authority.The War on Truth and Information Is Accelerating: The episode touches on the increasing threats to truth and reliable information, from book bans to algorithmic suppression of knowledge. Talisman underscores the crucial role librarians play in preserving access to primary sources and maintaining records of historical truth. As AI becomes more prominent in knowledge dissemination, the need for robust, verifiable sources becomes even more urgent.Linked Data is the Foundation of Digital Knowledge: The conversation explores how linked data protocols, such as those championed by Tim Berners-Lee, allow machines and AI to interpret and connect information across the web. Talisman explains that institutions like NIH publish their taxonomies in RDF format, making them accessible as structured, authoritative sources. However, many organizations fail to leverage this interconnected data, leading to inefficiencies in knowledge management.Preserving Digital Memory is a Civilization-Defining Challenge: In the digital age, the loss of information is more severe than ever. Alsop compares the current state of digital impermanence to the Dark Ages, where crucial knowledge risks disappearing due to corporate decisions, cyberattacks, and lack of preservation infrastructure. Talisman agrees, emphasizing that digital archives like the Internet Archive, WorldCat, and Wikimedia are foundational to maintaining a collective human memory.
Sunny Jane Morton introduces us to WorldCat, a site that allows users to search libraries across the country in just a couple of clicks.
Season 3 begins today. George Wythe was known for many things; Signing the Declaration of Independence and teaching and mentoring Thomas Jefferson. But, did you know that he was likely murdered by his own Nephew? There is some strange evidence in this one, but the story is intriguing and worth learning about. We hope you enjoy the Season 3 “opener” and we thank you for being part of Revolutionary War Rarities. Make sure and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, join our Facebook Group, follow us on Instagram, and check out our website at fastfunhistory.com. We are the podcast from the Sons of the American Revolution. Resources to learn more about George Wythe “Biography of George Wythe” from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/explore/nation-builders/george-wythe/ George Wythe – Thomas Jefferson's Monticello: https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/george-wythe/ “Discovered: Jefferson's list of George Wythe's ‘legacie.'” Monticello Newsletter vol. 20, no. 2 (Winter 2009): https://monticello-www.s3.amazonaws.com/files/old/inline-pdfs/2009wGeorgeWytheWntr09.pdf?bigtree_htaccess_url=sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/2009wGeorgeWytheWntr09.pdf Resources from the Thomas Jefferson Portal in WorldCat: https://tjportal.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=George+Wythe&clusterResults=true --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find Revolutionary War Rarities on the internet at https://www.fastfunhistory.com Find us on Facebook and Instagram by searching “Revolutionary War Rarities” For more educational resources from the Sons of the American Revolution: https://www.Education.sar.org
In the exciting second part of our discussion on YPAR and arts-based methods, new grad student co-hosts Shikha and Cory continue their conversation with Dr Kristen Goessling, Dr Dana Wright, Dr Amanda Wager and Dr. Marit Dewhurst, researchers and editors of Engaging youth in critical arts pedagogies and creative research for social justice: Opportunities and challenges of arts-based work and research with young people that came out in 2021. First, in our lightning round, we continue learning about our guests as we ask them about their pet peeves in collaboration–which are quite funny and enlightening! [1:15]. We also talk about an outline of common stages or phases in a YPAR project [2:16]. Some highlights include a discussion on relationship building as a design process [6:40] and building group dynamics [9:20] through participatory arts-based methods, like mapping and collage. In their projects, we can really see “PAR as a verb” in terms of supporting adults who work with young people as “PAR-ing” [11:48]. Throughout, our guests emphasize the pedagogical dimensions of YPAR because YPAR insists on sharing and learning skills together and democratizing knowledge production. For example, Amanda draws on theatre-based activities like the ”hot seat” to rehearse data collection methods like interviewing. YPAR challenges adultism with its “misconceptions about young people” and pushes adults to take youth seriously [15:25]. At its heart, “PAR is essentially doing two research projects at once: You are engaging in a process that you are studying because you are studying the praxis and so that you can hone it, refine it, and make it more effective; and you are studying the subject at hand” [18:48]. While navigating these layers, our YPAR guests explore navigating power dynamics [20:35] and participants shifting energies and motivations with and among youth [24:09]. Finally, [31:57] our guests offer advice to novice YPAR researchers on how to push the bar on meaningful participation in working with youth. They each share some encouragement and remind us that, ultimately, “anyone [who] has any designs on working with young people should be prepared that [young people] are the smartest people in the room and they will know if you are authentic or if you are trustworthy […] so it's best to bring your authentic self” [39:37].Here is the citation for their book on YPAR and arts-based methods: Goessling, K. P., Wright, D. E., Wager, A. C., & Dewhurst, Marit. (2021). Engaging youth in critical arts pedagogies and creative research for social justice opportunities and challenges of arts-based work and research with young people. Routledge; WorldCat.org. http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=6469802Here are the YPAR handbooks mentioned in our conversationCommunity Futures, Community Lore: Learn to use youth participatory action research (YPAR), community mapping, public data and cultural organizing to generate solutions for our collective future.Berkeley YPAR hub: This hub features expansive curriculum and resources to enrich YPAR projects.Here are other publications by our guests:Goessling, K. P., Wright, D., Wager, A. C., & Dewhurst, M. (2020). A critical mixtape for the movement: Reflecting on creative and critical youth practices in research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 33(1), 1-7.Goessling, K. P., Wright, D. E., Wager, A. C., & Dewhurst, M. (2021)....
In the first episode led by our new co-hosts(!) Cory and Shikha sit down with Dr Kristen Goessling, Dr Dana Wright, Dr Amanda Wager, and Dr. Marit Dewhurst, researchers and editors of Engaging youth in critical arts pedagogies and creative research for social justice: Opportunities and challenges of arts-based work and research with young people, which came out in 2021. This special two-part series begins with our lightning round to get to know our guests. They give us lots of interesting soundbites for defining Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)! Highlights from our discussions in PART 1 include: common assumptions about art-based research rigor and subjectivity; the continuum of arts-based methods; the importance of power-sharing, building trust and centering youth perspectives. The guests emphasize process over product, democratizing research through art, tapping different ways of knowing, and art as freedom for imagination and social change. The heart of their work involves further examining subjective dimensions of research, assessing arts-based methods, and implementing creative techniques to build relationships and share power with youth researchers. It was super interesting, and as co-hosts we learned a lot, so tune in!Our guests have a lot of important ideas to share, so after listening to this episode, join us in our next episode “Part 2 with Dana, Kristen, Amanda and Marit” where we dig into more of the “what and why” of YPAR. Here is the citation for their book on YPAR and arts-based methods: Goessling, K. P., Wright, D. E., Wager, A. C., & Dewhurst, Marit. (2021). Engaging youth in critical arts pedagogies and creative research for social justice opportunities and challenges of arts-based work and research with young people. Routledge; WorldCat.org. http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=6469802
In our last SEAMSIDE conversation on Episode 5, quilt historian Jess Bailey aka @publiclibraryquilts and I discussed the role of storytelling in art history and the power of visual images to convey narratives, experience of feeling seen and recognized through images, and we talked about why Jess would rather her quilts be considered sturdy rather than soft.We catch up now a little over a year later to share our favorite quilt book recommendations, personal stories from recent quilting bees, and I share a vulnerable moment that Jess indirectly helped me understand one of my own blind spots in regards to the improv quilts of Gee's Bend.⤷ Subscribe to SEAMSIDE to get a notification when a new episode posts⤷ Get your free trial to the THE QUILTY NOOKSHOWNOTES OF THE GODS (thank you, Jess)You can see the Ascott Martyrs Quilt if you visit the People's History Museum in Manchester or you can learn more about the Martyrs story and early union history through this resource. Big thanks to Fi Ashley at Gresshenhall for amplifying material culture histories of unions and first telling PLQ about the Ascott Quilt.Zak shared his copy of the standby of any well-stocked quilt library: A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories by Roland L. Freeman. Remember, if you can't find an out of print quilt history book, its always worth checking Worldcat - a search engine that aggregates the world's library collections!Two must read quilt history books of 2023: Out this June from University of Washington Press, Professor Lisa Gail Collins' Stitching Love and Loss: the story of a Gee's Bend Quilt promises to encompass the power and role of quilts across a human life. Professor Janneken Smucker's A New Deal for Quilts will be published by the International Quilt Museum in October. Jess has had the pleasure of reading an advanced copy and everyone needs to see the stunningly beautiful early 20th century photographs of quilts in this book. You can preorder it at the link above.Jess & Zak are a Sharbreon fan club in this episode! If you'd like to read Dr. Sharbreon Plummer's Diasporic Threads published by Common Threads Press, you can find it here. Jess & Sharbreon have some projects up their sleeve, in the meantime explore Sharbreon's quilt work.You can watch Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi's lecture at the International Quilt Museum here (and maybe spot Zak in the front row!)Oh and did Jess mention an upcoming quilt fundraiser & raffle? Stay tuned for more from Jess & her collaborator Ashley J. May (@grassrootsmorning) as they prepare for the Kin Folk Library Quilt fundraiser funding a library of children's books amplifying the rich histories of Black feminist writers and Lil' Free Bird story times at the Salt Eaters and other bookshops.
In this episode, Adam and Joe speak again with Adam's close friend, professor, and mentor, Dr Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, an Action-Researcher and Associate Professor in the PhD Program at the Dreeben School of Education at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, and co-author of Action Research (Fifth Edition) with Ernie Stringer. This episode explores the “what?” and “why?” of research in action research. Adam, Joe and Alfredo all went into their PhDs already working as practitioners and the conversation steers first toward the specific impact of their PhDs on their practice. Adam [7:15] thinks about the process and impact of his literature review on his work and Alfredo [9:20] reflects on how his PhD process opened his eyes to new ways of thinking about practice. Listen to Alfredo elaborate on the PhD as a period of discovering “meaningful methodology” and “amazing theories” (e.g., soft systems theory) that would energize his work and speak directly to frustrations he was having with “linear ways of thinking” in the field. The conversation turns toward the ways theories bridge research and practice. Joe [15:45] picks up on research's ability to help practitioners “draw the curtains back” and help us see things more clearly. But it's not “a one-way street,” since the practitioner-researcher contributes back to developing theories. Alfredo [18:15] offers some tough love by challenging doctoral students who might use theories uncritically to validate their work rather than engage with them dynamically as tools in tension with other theories in their projects. He gives us an example of how the dynamic tension between soft system theory and complexity theory enriched his own work: “Those two theories don't like each other, but I needed both of them to be able to explain how the things that I was doing were helping or not.” Here, Joe [21:05] echoes Alfredo's argument by drawing insights from an article he wrote “The Danger of a Single Theory” on his work with youth in a student voice project.To close Part 1 of this conversation, Adam [22:35] asks Alfredo if he is still working with theories from his dissertation. Alfredo uses his work in The Community Health and Wellbeing Project and The Breastfeeding Women Project to bring back into focus the role of stakeholders in action research: “Whether or not you're bringing in a formal theoretical framework or not, we are treating people's experiences as a source of knowledge and evidence, and trying to get them involved in doing so. That is only happening because I learned something about action research.”We have more to say, so join us in our next episode “Part 2 with Alfredo” where we dig into more of the “what and why” of research in action research. If you are interested in Joe's article or Aldredo's (with Ernie Stringer) book on Action Research, the citations are below: Levitan, J. A. S. (2018). The danger of a single theory: Understanding students' voices and social justice in the Peruvian Andes. Teachers College Record, 120(2). WorldCat.org.Stringer, E. T., & Aragón, A. O. (2021). Action research (Fifth edition). Sage publications **If you have your own questionsabout Action Research or want to share any feedback, contact us atActionResearchPod@gmail.com.**
Catalino Curet Alonso (a menudo llamado Don Tite) escribió unas 2000 canciones durante su vida, y alrededor de 200 fueron grandes éxitos en Latinoamérica. “Las caras lindas (de mi gente negra)” es innegablemente personal. Tite, que falleció en 2003, estaba orgulloso de ser un “Antillano de visibles raíces africanas.” Mientras que las canciones de otros escritores degradan la piel oscura, o incluso la exotizan, “Las caras lindas” expresa el profundo amor de Tite por la negritud y la gente negra. Y ese amor se extiende más allá de Puerto Rico para todas las personas de piel oscura de todas partes: Las caras lindas de mi gente negra Son un desfile de melaza en flor Que cuando pasa frente a mí se alegra De su negrura todo el corazón Para la antropóloga Bárbara Abadía-Rexach, la canción también tiene una repercusión a nivel personal. En este episodio, explora cómo las letras y la perspectiva de Tite sobre la raza y el colonialismo pueden servir como modelo en la actualidad, cuando el racismo anti negro sigue siendo un problema en muchas comunidades. Aprende más sobre las voces de este episodio: • Susana Baca, compositora y cantante • Mira a Rubén Blades con Tite en el concierto tributo en 1995 • Mira a Mireya Ramos interpretar en vivo “Las Caras Lindas” con su banda Flor de Toloache y su hermano Velcro • Mira una presentación del profesor de literatura Juan Otero Garabis sobre la representación de la raza en la música de Tite • Ve la entrada de Worldcat del libro de Bárbara aquí • Mira el documental de Sonia Fritz sobre Don Tite aquí Nuestra versión de “Las caras lindas” está a cargo de La Tribu de Abrante (disponible en abril). Escucha nuestra lista de reproducción de Spotify, con música de este episodio y esta temporada. Cada semana y, a medida que salgan nuevos episodios, seguiremos agregando canciones. En esta semana, le damos un agradecimiento especial a Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, Sara Cruz Castro, Osvaldo Rivera Soto, Taller Comunidad La Goyco y Elizabeth Andrade — y a la memoria de Olga Esther Rexach Ayala. Musica adicional para este episodio por Circulo Saqra, y Renee Goust. El chequeo de datos y la verificación de los hechos de esta temporada fue realizado por Istra Pacheco y María Soledad Dávila Calero. Esta temporada de La Brega existe gracias a The Mellon Foundation.
Extreme Genes - America's Family History and Genealogy Radio Show & Podcast
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys begin the show with a couple of amazing discoveries they each made in the past week. For Fisher, it was the secret marriage of his uncle in 1927, ten months before the couple publicly married, with no one any the wiser! For David, it was the employment records of his great grandfather in England which led him to the ancestor's date of departure for North America. The two have a few other juicy details. David then reveals that many family history icons are moving to a new social media platform called Mastedon. Next, hear some good news for another great search source… WorldCat.org. They're now funneling many family history sources, such as libraries and research centers, into their one searchable database. Did you ever think that the way we cook today may have been through methods passed down by our Neanderthal ancestors? One study says YES! And finally, DNA is showing the stress our grandparents and great grandparents experienced during the Depression. Those born between 1929 and 1939 show evidence of their parents' stress in their cells today. David explains. Next, Fisher begins his two part interview with Professor Jim Kimble of Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Jim spent five years analyzing the iconic “We Can Do It!” World War 2 poster, whose flexing factory working woman has traditionally been called “Rosie the Riveter.” Jim will tell you two things about the poster, that we all thought we knew, that are wrong! Then hear how Jim was able, after incredible effort, to identify the woman whose face we all know, and disprove the identity of another woman who was long believed to have been the model. David then returns for Ask Us Anything, answering your questions. That's all this week on Extreme Genes, America's Family History Show!
Kick off Women's History Month with a show all about some of the earliest representations of women in art! Anna introduces us to the Venus of Willendorf and her curvy comrades, and shares a research study with very modern take on ancient art. Meanwhile Amber bursts our bubble about the matriarchy and goddess religions in Old Europe, and discusses goddess worshippers of past and present at Çatalhöyük in present-day Turkey. Or, as Amber would insist we call it this month, Her-key.The Time of the Willendorf Figurines and New Results of Palaeolithic Research in Lower Austria (Anthropologie)The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (via Google Books)Venus Figurines of the European Paleolithic: Symbols of Fertility or Attractiveness? (Journal of Anthropology)Das Mutterrecht (auf Deutsch via Archive.org, English translation WorldCat entry here)The Marija Gimbutas Collection (Opus Archives and Research Center)The World of the Goddess - Marija Gimbutas (Youtube)The Myth of the Mother-Goddess (World Archaeology)Goddesses, Gimbutas and New Age archaeology (Antiquity)Catal-huyuk: A Neolithic Town (via Archive.org)Archaeologists and Goddess Feminists at Çatalhöyük: An Experiment in Multivocality (Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion)
Following the NATO summit in Madrid, Professor Dr. Nursin Atesoglu Güney will give us a debrief on the summit which she attended. Segment 1 : Is NATO' s Madrid Summit a sign of a rise of a new Cold War -the change in threat perceptions -have NATO's strategic missions changed? Strengthened Deterrence seems to be the 1st priority over others- collective security and crisis management Segment 2: why is NATO is expanding now? Has the Ukrainian war triggered it? Segment 3: Turkish-Sweden-Finland trilateral deal: indivisibility of security principle in NATO is functioning now. Here is a short bio : Distinguished author, speaker, commentator and author, Nursin Atesoglu Güney is professor of international relations in Nisantasi University and a member of Turkiye‘s Presidential Security and Foreign Policies Council. She is president of CEMES, the Center of Mediterranean Security. According to Worldcat.org she is the author of 19 works in 54 publications in 2 languages and 2,168 library holdings Turkiye is ranked 6th/57 countries tuning in to our podcast . Thank you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mediterranean-sustainable/message
This week we continue our deep dive into the Trinity UFO crash! Picking up where we left off, our story begins with Remi and Jose returning home from the crash site. Join us as we learn about what lurks in the canyon below, a witness report of “little critters” and more! SUBSCRIBE! Don't forget to subscribe so you can catch future shows :) PLEASE RATE & REVIEW:
Following the NATO summit in Madrid, Professor Dr. Nursin Atesoglu Güney will give us a debrief on the summit which she attended. Segment 1 : Is NATO' s Madrid Summit a sign of a rise of a new Cold War -the change in threat perceptions -have NATO's strategic missions changed? Strengthened Deterrence seems to be the 1st priority over others- collective security and crisis management Segment 2: why is NATO is expanding now? Has the Ukrainian war triggered it? Segment 3: Turkish-Sweden-Finland trilateral deal: indivisibility of security principle in NATO is functioning now. Here is a short bio : Distinguished author, speaker, commentator and author, Nursin Atesoglu Güney is professor of international relations in Nisantasi University and a member of Turkiye‘s Presidential Security and Foreign Policies Council. She is president of CEMES, the Center of Mediterranean Security. According to Worldcat.org she is the author of 19 works in 54 publications in 2 languages and 2,168 library holdings Turkiye is ranked 6th/57 countries tuning in to our podcast . Thank you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mediterranean-sustainable/message
In this episode we discuss how to research knowledge - how we know what we know - to avoid misinformation. We distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources. Also where to find academic resources: www.Jstor.com www.WorldCat.orgGoogle Scholarwww.HighConsciousThinker.com
Karl Neiger, a Yamaha Outboard Repower Specialist at Central Marine in St. Petersburg, Florida, joined PartsVu Xchange Talks Boating for a Yamaha update.As the largest Yamaha outboard repower dealer in the US, Karl and the rest of the Central Marine team are very knowledgeable about all things Yamaha - new technology and they have been in the center of the action collaborating with Yamaha to work through the supply chain challenges that are plaguing every industry, including the marine industry.We discussed:Update on what Karl and Central Marine are seeing in terms of the state of the Yamaha supply chainRecent Yamaha technology updatesThe amazing custom paint jobs - cowlings and full engines - Central Marine has the opportunity to see, given their position as a repower specialist.Check out the Instagram post we worked with Karl to put together. 10 amazing Yamaha outboard paint jobs. You can find that post here.If you are in the market for a new Yamaha outboard, contact Karl and follow him on Instagram.@yamaha7manPhone: 727-709-1026Email: karl_neiger@centralmarineservice.comIf you are in the St. Petersburg, FL area, consider checking out Central Marine. They offer new and used boats, and of course, awesome service. They are Yamaha, Cobia, Jupiter, Parker, and WorldCat dealers. Central Marine websiteCentral Marine FacebookCentral Marine InstagramCentral Marine YouTubePartsVu is here to support all of your boating needs. Customers particularly value our Yamaha outboard service kits, Mercury outboard service kits, Mercruiser service kits, and Suzuki outboard service kits.Use coupon code PVTALKSBOATING for free shipping for your next www.partsvu.com order.Follow PartsVu on Facebook and Instagram (@partsvu4u)
Woohoo!! We are way stoked to have you reading a website about a podcast about a book supposedly transcribed from audio recordings about a TV character! Check all of us out! Nice work, everyone. In this, our Back to the Double R Special #2, we dive into the dogeared pages of Scott Frost's “The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes.” Published in 1991, this lesser sibling to “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer” is a curio of not-undubious distinction—but fans gonna fan, and we kinda liked it! Jonathan kicks us off with a discussion of how this compares to “The Secret Diary…”; Jennifer turns a spotlight on Dale Cooper's early traumas; Colin wonders whether young Dale is a child of the 1950s, 60s, or 70s; and Damon asks whether Warren's boy's book is a useful bridge to Lynch's Twin Peaks prequel, “Fire Walk With Me.” For the Twist, we ask our standard question of all the literary elements of the Peaksian landscape that we will discuss: Is it canon? LISTEN: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | BuzzSprout | Spotify | RSS | and more!SPECIAL #2: “The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes” NOTES:The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes (via WorldCat.org) Scott Frost (author)Can we copy off you? Show notes to come!
… Wow, Bob. Wow. The Master returns to direct the final episode of the season and the series (or so we thought), in Season 2, Episode 22, “Beyond Life and Death.” The sound of burning motor oil and the smell of hideous laughter usher us into the waiting room of the Black Lodge and we are spat out with at least as many questions as answers. This week, Jonathan contemplates the triumph of evil; Jennifer puzzles out the final doublings; Damon is lost in a time loop; and Colin wonders if these closing horrors were always waiting for us at the end of the road. Programming note! We are disappearing for a bit as we prepare some special content! We're back November 18, 2021, with The Autobiography of F.B.I. Agent Dale Cooper, so grab that where you can (hint: try WorldCat.org). Then, on December 2, we start our special 3-part series on Lynch's “Fire Walk With Me.” Check BackToTheDoubleR.com for more info! LISTEN: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | BuzzSprout | Spotify | RSS | and more!S2, E22 NOTES:David Lynch (episode director) Harley Peyton (episode writer)Show notes will see you again in 25 years! (Okay, maybe not that long…)
Our third interview is with Professor Michael Witzel of Harvard University, one of the greatest Veda scholars of our time. You can find his Wikipedia page here, his Harvard page here, and many of his publications here.Given Michael Witzel's long career and many incarnations, there are quite a few things to link to: – Details on the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project– Relating to Vedic Studies, there is the Viśvabandhu Vedic Word Concordance; digitized Vedic (and Sanskrit) dictionaries are available e.g. at the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries site. The publisher's sites for Witzel and Goto's introduction to the Rigveda are here and for Thomas Oberlies' 'Der Rigveda und seine Religion' here. Jamison & Brereton's recent English-language translation of the Rigveda is here, this is their 'The Rigveda: A Guide', and the website for their constantly growing online commentary can be found here.You can download the article with the map detailing places in Mahārāṣṭra where manuscripts remain to be discovered.This is Michael Witzel's ground-breaking book on Comparative Mythology. The translation of the Mayan Popol Vuh that we discuss does not seem to be available online, but WorldCat shows which libraries have it available.This is the edition of the first books of the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā that we mention.
Hello lovely star friends! Away we go with Episode 122 of StarSound Speaks … The New Moon in Virgo. ✴️ What potentials will this New Moon bring? ✴️ What parts of the body are highlighted? ✴️ Some cool suggestions for maximizing the opportunities. We talk about the Mars-Neptune opposition and the lessons and observations we are processing from that challenging transit -- Wisdom that we will carry through this Virgo lunation. ✴️ What's the surprise assistance awaiting us with this New Moon? ✴️ We also share about an other-worldy memoir about working with nature and gardening that will change your life. A memoir by Machaelle Small Wright, founder of Perelandra, a conscious community in Virginia. Here's where you might borrow it from WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/behaving-as-if-the-god-in-all-life-mattered/oclc/37423942?loc= ✴️ Finally, a trip through all 12 houses to see where this New Moon will land in your chart. Enjoy! Much love to you all, irlianna www.StarSoundAstrology.com To book a session with Irlianna: https://www.starsoundastrology.com/book-a-session-1
In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll explore some curiosities and unanswered questions from Greg's research, including a novelist's ashes, some bathing fairies, the mists of Dartmoor, and a ballooning leopard. We'll also revisit the Somerton man and puzzle over an armed traveler. Intro: Amanda McKittrick Ros is widely considered the worst novelist of all time. John Cummings swallowed 30 knives. Sources for our notes and queries: The Pony Express ad is quoted in Christopher Corbett's 2004 history Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express. It appeared first in Missouri amateur historian Mabel Loving's posthumous 1961 history The Pony Express Rides On!, but she cites no source, and no one's been able to find the ad. The anecdote about John Gawsworth keeping M.P. Shiel's ashes in a biscuit tin appears in John Sutherland's 2011 book Lives of the Novelists. "The comedian and scholar of nineteenth-century decadent literature, Barry Humphries, was (unwillingly) one such diner -- 'out of mere politeness.'" Sutherland gives only this source, which says nothing about the ashes. (Thanks, Jaideep.) Henry Irving's observation about amateur actors and personal pronouns is mentioned in Robertson Davies' 1951 novel Tempest-Tost. Joseph Addison's definition of a pun appeared in the Spectator, May 10, 1711. Theodore Hook's best pun is given in William Shepard Walsh's Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities, 1892. Richard Sugg's anecdote of the Ilkley fairies appears in this 2018 Yorkshire Post article. The proof of the Pythagorean theorem by "Miss E. A. Coolidge, a blind girl" appears in Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan's 2011 book Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem. They found it in Elisha Scott Loomis' 1940 book The Pythagorean Proposition, which cites the Journal of Education (Volume 28, 1888, page 17), which I haven't been able to get my hands on -- the Kaplans couldn't either, until they discovered it had been mis-shelved in the stacks of Harvard's Gutman Library. Neither Loomis nor the Kaplans gives the proof as it originally appeared, and neither gives Coolidge's age at the proof. The anecdote of the Dartmoor fog appears in William Crossing's 1888 book Amid Devonia's Alps. The Paris fogs of the 1780s are described in Louis-Sébastien Mercier's Tableau de Paris (Chapter CCCLXIV, 1:1014), a 12-volume topographic description of the city that appeared between 1782 and 1788, as quoted in Jeremy Popkin, ed., Panorama of Paris: Selections From Tableau de Paris, 2010. "I have known fogs so thick that you could not see the flame in their lamps," Mercier wrote, "so thick that coachmen have had to get down from their boxes and feel their way along the walls. Passers-by, unwilling and unwitting, collided in the tenebrous streets; and you marched in at your neighbour's door under the impression that it was your own." The anecdote about Charles Green and his ballooning companions appears in John Lucas' 1973 book The Big Umbrella. The best image I've been able to find of the Dobhar-chú, the "king otter" of Irish folklore, accompanies this 2018 article from the Leitrim Observer. Does a photo exist of Grace Connolly's entire headstone? According to WorldCat, G.V. Damiano's 1922 book Hadhuch-Anti Hell-War is held only by the New York Public Library System; by Trinity College Library in Hartford, Ct.; and by the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. If it's available online, I haven't been able to find it. The incident of the dividing typewriters is mentioned in this article from the Vancouver Sun, and there's a bit more on this Australian typewriter blog. The anecdote about Enroughty being pronounced "Darby" appears in the designer's notes for the wargame The Seven Days, Volume III: Malvern Hill. This 1912 letter to the New York Times affirms the pronunciation, and this 1956 letter to American Heritage gives another explanation of its origin -- one of many. A few more confirming sources: Robert M. Rennick, "I Didn't Catch Your Name," Verbatim 29:2 (Summer 2004). Parke Rouse, "The South's Cloudy Vowels Yield to Bland Consonance," [Newport News, Va.] Daily Press, Feb. 23, 1989, A11. Earl B. McElfresh, "Make Straight His Path: Mapmaking in the Civil War," Civil War Times 46:4 (June 2007), 36-43, 5. But even if it's true, there's no consistent explanation as to how this state of affairs came about. Listener mail: Daniel Keane and Rhett Burnie, "The Somerton Man's Remains Have Been Exhumed — So What Happens Next?" ABC News, May 19, 2021. Hilary Whiteman, "The Somerton Man Died Alone on a Beach in 1948. Now Australian Scientists Are Close to Solving the Mystery," CNN, May 31, 2021. "Operation Persist Enters New Phase," Crime Stoppers South Australia, Jan. 30, 2019. "Most-Wanted Iraqi Playing Cards," Wikipedia (accessed Jul. 9, 2021). Leon Neyfakh, "An Ingenious New Way of Solving Cold Cases," Slate, Feb. 1, 2016. Jean Huets, "Killing Time," New York Times Opinionater, Sept. 7, 2012. "1863 Complete Set of Confederate Generals Playing Cards (52)," Robert Edward Auctions (accessed July 10, 2021). James Elphick, "Four Ways Americans Have Used Playing Cards in War," History Net (accessed July 10, 2021). "WWII Airplane Spotter Cards," The Museum of Flight Store (accessed July 11, 2021). "Vesna Vulovic," Wikipedia (accessed July 4, 2021). Richard Sandomir, "Vesna Vulovic, Flight Attendant Who Survived Jetliner Blast, Dies at 66," New York Times, Dec. 28, 2016. "Yeast Hunting," myBeviale, June 1, 2020. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Sarah Gilbert, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
Middle grade writer Laurie Morrison shares some baked goods-related research holes she found in the process of writing her third novel Saint Ivy. Val makes it weird by talking about some random historical Philadelphia dishes, from terrapin to salad customs to scrapple. SHOW NOTES: [All links below can be found on our website researchholepodcast.com.] Visit the Abrams website for links to all the stores where you can buy Saint Ivy. (I said Bookshop.com in the episode but what I meant was Bookshop.org - it's a site where a small percentage of your purchase goes to indie bookstores. You can also find your local indie bookstore by looking it up on Indiebound.org.) Saint Ivy activity guide (with kid-friendly German Chocolate Cake recipe!) can be found on Laurie's website. I'm not sure if this is truly the original German chocolate cake recipe, but it's listed as such on a Baker's German sweet chocolate bar wrapper, so I'm guessing it's close. The Llanfear Pattern by Francis Biddle is hard to find online - the best I have for you is this Worldcat link. But there is a review of the book in the New York Times from 1927! (Long story short - the critic found the story lacking in personality, but thought Biddle was promising as a writer. To each his own!) Diamondback Terrapin pic that I sent to Laurie is from the wikipedia page :( There is a good explainer of the difference between Philadelphia vs. French style ice cream on The Week (with some bonus other types of ice cream thrown in) The full list and schedule of Jeopardy guest hosts can be found at EW.com. Laurie Morrison's website: lauriemorrisonwrites.com Follow Laurie on twitter and instagram (@LaurieLMorrison)
Join us as we discuss part two of a case that has completely polarized the town of Mckeesport, PA. In 1996 a 13 year old girl completely fell through the cracks of a broken system. This young girl’s disappearance goes relatively unnoticed until the body of another girl, who was from the same area and was the same age, was found in the town’s cemetery a few years later. In this episode there will be a lot up for debate. What is clear is that an economically depressed town, a complacent school and police department, as well as, for the first time, an uninterested media will come together to make the perfect disappearing act. Patreon.com/truecrimecouple (http://patreon.com/truecrimecouple) Sources: Memoir of a milk carton kid. WorldCat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldCat) . OCLC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)) 754718762 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754718762) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-pawd-2_06-cv-01216/pdf/USCOURTS-pawd-2_06-cv-01216-9.pdf https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1499073.html https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59146929add7b049342d2848
Join us as we discuss a case that has completely polarized the town of Mckeesport, PA. In 1996 a 13 year old girl completely fell through the cracks of a broken system. This young girl’s disappearance goes relatively unnoticed until the body of another girl, who was from the same area and was the same age, was found in the town’s cemetery a few years later. In this episode there will be a lot up for debate. What is clear is that an economically depressed town, a complacent school and police department, as well as, for the first time, an uninterested media will come together to make the perfect disappearing act. Patreon.com/truecrimecouple Sponsors: Best Fiends- Download for free on the Apple App Store or Google Play Simplisafe.com/couple Sources: Memoir of a milk carton kid. WorldCat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldCat) . OCLC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)) 754718762 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754718762) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-pawd-2_06-cv-01216/pdf/USCOURTS-pawd-2_06-cv-01216-9.pdf https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1499073.html https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59146929add7b049342d2848
Global Equality Collective (GEC) co-founder, Cat is incredibly passionate about finding ways to close the gender pay gap. She has created a framework that scientifically benchmarks the diversity activities that organisations are doing, so that they can improve.Cat Wildman is also a mum of 3, has a science degree, a tech business woman and a powerhouse of knowledge when it comes to increasing diversity in workplaces.***Sign up to the Level Up with Confidence Masterclass waitlist here!***Episode Summary:How Cat's early childhood experiences influenced her career pathHow she quantum leaped her way from a science degree to the tech business worldCat's personal frustrations that lead to the birth of the Global Equality CollectiveHow the GEC app is methodically helping companies to work towards equalityHow you can get involved with the Global Equality Collective...plus so much more!Resources:Find the GEC on Instagram & LinkedInContact Cat via email: cat @theGEC.orgBook recommendation: Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates***Sign up to the Level Up with Confidence Masterclass waitlist here!***
To all intents and purposes although the word paper is the origin and historical development derived from papyrus, yet the two are produced very differently and the development of the first is distinct from the development of the second. Correspondingly, the fact that paper dates back almost 2,000 years to when inventors in China first crafted cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings. Moreover before then, global citizens communicated through pictures and symbols etched on stone, bones, cave walls, or clay tablets. And Paper as we know it today was first made in LeiYang, China by Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese court official. In all likelihood, Ts'ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid, and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun."Paper technology : official journal of the Paper Industry Technical Association". WorldCat. Retrieved 10 January 2017. "papyrus". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Retrieved 20 November 2008. "Towards paperless information systems". CERN Document Server. Academic Press. 1978. Retrieved 2016-02-10. Habib, Irfan (2011). Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500. Pearson Education India. pp. 95–96. ISBN 9788131727911. https://www.jstor.org/journal/collegecouranthttps://www.jstor.org/stable/i40211191 W.C.Griffis https://www.synonyms.com/antonyms/understatement Murray, Stuart A. P. The Library: An illustrated History. Skyhorse Publishing, 2009, p. 57. SAK Ghori; A Rahman (1966). "Paper Technology in medieval India". Indian Journal of History of Science. 2: 135–136. Tsien 1985, p. 38 "PT V1 Nr1" (PDF). Paper Technology. Retrieved 13 July 2020. Archive". PITA. Retrieved 13 July 2020. Bloom, Jonathan (2001). Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 8–10, 42–45. ISBN 0-300-08955-4. Burger, Peter (2007). Charles Fenerty and his paper invention. Toronto: Peter Burger. pp. 25–30. ISBN 978-0-9783318-1-8. OCLC 173248586. Archived from the original on 19 April 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2009. DeVinne, Theo. L. The Invention of Printing. New York: Francis Hart & Co., 1876. p. 134 Gittens, William Anderson, Author, Media Arts Specialist, Student of Film, License Cultural Practitioner Gittens,William Anderson,Author, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor-in-Chief Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing ®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015 http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/from-paper-to-the-press-two-technologies-that-changed-the-world/article/487825 http://www.scienceprojectideas.co.uk/testing-paper-for-strength.html https://education.jlab.org/qa/atomicstructure_11.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#CITEREFBarrett2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#CITEREFTsien1985 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#CITEREFWilkinson2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#Shift_from_parchment_to_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution#Paper_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper#CITEREFBurns1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper#CITEREFTsien1985 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper#HistorSupport the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)
This week's best thing: Leverage (TV show) JSTOR - a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. WorldCat - a global catalog of library collections Library of Congress Digital Collections Alexis Daria post on time tracking to create the ideal week https://www.instagram.com/p/CF04IVlg7Ks/?igshid=qpqydc4q0cag Sarra Cannon's HB90 Method Enola Holmes on Netflix PitchWars.org Moose stalking in New Hampshire https://www.instagram.com/p/BpDNuS2FL_b/ Featured podcast: Tea & Strumpets - https://www.romancepod.com/ The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - https://paypal.me/heartspell My Imaginary Friends is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarudCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive compensation for links to products on this site either directly or indirectly via affiliate links. Heartspell Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 9 with Heather Rose Jones This mid-18th century novel tells the story of two women romping through Europe in male disguise, breaking hearts, having narrow escapes, falling in love with each other, and ending up deciding to share the rest of their lives together. The 18th century prose is rather dense, but I've tried to pick selections that show why I find it fascinating. In this episode we talk about: The historic context of the novel An overall plot summary Readings of selected excerpts that illustrate the romantic relationship between the two main characters Books mentioned The full text of The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu is accessible primarily through academic libraries, but is available in electronic facsimile. WorldCat has the following listings for it:The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu (Erskine) A transcript of this podcast is available here. Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/ Twitter: @LesbianMotif Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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(https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * Elizabeth is not on the Internet but plugs http://oyate.org/, which puts historically accurate books in the hands of Native American children. * Erica is already on the roof of your car and plugs Glittermitten Grove, a game which is full of surprises https://store.steampowered.com/app/536890/Glittermitten_Grove/ Topics: * I'm going to have to ask you to leave the goat outside: driving the bookmobile in rural Washington. * Bookmobiles as a center of rural life: https://news.wsu.edu/2015/04/08/the-world-on-wheels-bookmobile-the-center-of-rural-life/ * "Every time we avalanched from one end of the stage to the other, the Unabridged Dictionary would come too" and other hazards of driving with books, from Mark Twain’s "Roughing It": https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3177/3177-h/3177-h.htm#linkch03 * The Ellerbe Lawnmower Races: https://www.yourdailyjournal.com/sports/72886/ellerbe-lions-club-hosting-local-race-saturday * Hot Saw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSaw * Arguing with your husband about the insects in your fridge. * The tiny moth that haunts Erica’s fridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracillariidae * How do you pick an effective charity? * Erica's effective charities: * American Civil Liberties Union: https://www.aclu.org/ * Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org/ * Natural Resources Defense Council: https://www.nrdc.org/ * Doctors Without Borders: https://stories.msf.org.uk/rescue/index.html * Page Ahead: http://www.pageahead.org/ * Okapi Conservation Project: https://www.okapiconservation.org/ * Erotica in the public library. * Elizabeth says: "The best way to find the erotica in your library is to use the subject headings in the [WorldCat] catalog [https://www.worldcat.org/]. The easiest way to do this is probably to search the catalog for '50 Shades of Grey' or some other erotic novel you know is in the collection, select the book to open up it’s library record, then scroll down to the subject headings and select 'Erotic Fiction.' That should bring up everything in your local library system. If you’re looking for a particular kink, I suggest searching for a reading list on goodreads, then checking the world catalog, located at WorldCat.org to find the library copy closest to you. Remember, even if your library doesn’t own a copy, you can still request an inner library loan- just call the branch nearest to you and ask for help. :)" * Menage series H.O.T. Cops: https://www.goodreads.com/series/60473-h-o-t-cops * Hot cops, the gay erotica series: https://books.google.com/books/about/HotCops.html?id=z4Gp2msCZIC * A real Tingler: Unicorn Butt Cops Beach Patrol https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24896554-unicorn-butt-cops * Hiring assistants (for field biology) and then trying to live with them. * The Bowerbirds Hymn for a Dark Horse, written during an otherwise unproductive field season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JoUAJv82I&list=PLOJWuc3CN303oJTuSjU1C4J03uAGWlgv * It's all tied up with memories of living in the Rocky Mountains for me, but it's a very North Carolina album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yf1v9_ZOtY&list=RDv3JoUAJv82I&index=2 * The Bowerbirds get their own details wrong interview: https://redefinemag.net/2009/bowerbirds-band-interview/ * Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is not just about being neat: https://greatist.com/live/what-is-ocd-not-a-neat-freak#1 * "[Passengers] always run to the side when there is anything to see, whereas a conscientious and experienced steamboatman would stick to the center of the boat and part his hair in the middle with a spirit level," and other wisdom of evenness from Mark Twain’s "Life on the Mississippi": https://www.gutenberg.org/files/245/245-h/245-h.htm Microtopics: * Breaking format. * Representing Native Americans with integrity and dignity. * A video game that is full of surprises. * A baby who wants string cheese so much he pulls the entire handle off of the refrigerator. * Little walking chaos machines with a penchant for string cheese. * The story of why you don't have a phone. * Dying of dysentery because of string cheese. * Really getting the soap deep into that charging port. * A giant red school bus but instead of seats it has bookshelves. * Bookshelves with seat belts. * A very serious version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile. * A small town with a population of 300 where nobody sees each other except for once a month when the bookmobile visits. * A literacy earthquake. * A therapy goat that doesn't have any paperwork because you just discovered that being around the goat makes you less anxious. * Spreading hay all over the conference room and letting the guinea pigs loose. * Guinea pigs who are not embraced by the community at large. * Goats and libraries being natural enemies. * An enormous encyclopedia flying at your head every time you hit a bump in the road. * Small children encircling the Bookmobile and chanting because they are excited for books. * Lust for literacy. * Removing the governor from your riding mower and driving it over an obstacle course at 90mph. * Dividing your lawnmower races into weight classes. * Souping up your eight foot chainsaw and every child in town immediately crying when you turn it on because your Hot Saw is so loud. * Taking your three year old to see Jaws. * Sleeping through Alien (1979) as a six month old shaping your creative direction forever. * Buying a corn dog the length of your femur. * A corn dog that is so long that you can't hold it and put it in your mouth at the same time. * Putting down a blue tarp because it's Washington and everything is done with blue tarps. * Covering a tarp with dishwashing liquid and then putting kids in full body rubber tubes and goggles with slug antenna and making them race. * Making your slug race medal out of a metal that is constantly slimy. * Negotiating getting a minifridge with your future roommate. * The special kind of organism that can overcome a plant's defenses to live inside of it. * A moth living in your fridge and your husband is like "that's not my moth." * Not being able to release your refrigerator moth into the wild because you don't know that biome it came from. * Finding out what parts of your diet you share with the moth in your fridge. * A symphony of Roys. * The ant colony that has entirely taken over the bathroom who are all named Roy. * The amount of biomass required to observe you pooping before you'll get embarrassed. * Giving a Lordy award to Refrigerator Roy. * Whether what a given charity uses your money for is even that effective in the grand scheme of things. * Not feeling the need to donate to the charity of the week because you've already given money to an organization addressing the systemic causes of the problem. * Receiving more donations in a week than you have in the past 10 years and not having any idea what to do with the money. * Giving money to the folks in the office passing the hat around, then finding out that they're using the money to go on vacation. * Grocery stores gauging your level of disposable income by asking you to make charitable donations at checkout. * Libraries shifting from providing people books they ought to read, to providing people with porn. * Judging porn by its cover. * Recommending Hot Cops without reading it yourself. * Bodice rippers written in the 90s starting a romantic relationship with a rape, but modern bodice rippers depicting explicit conversations about consent. * Treating every request with dignity because if you have a cranky day you immediately lose the trust of the community. * A middle-aged woman from a conservative community trusting you enough to ask for porn recommendations. * A feud in the garden club about the etymology of the Purple Prussian Potato. * Coming in every week to ask the librarians how the Purple Prussian Potato got its name when it predates Prussia. * A librarian getting through the terrible parts of their job so they can focus on the ridiculous potato question somebody asked. * "Unicorn Butt Cops Beach Patrol" doing what it says on the tin. * Having to sleep in the same tent as your field assistant for months, but not being able to be friends with them because then they won't take orders. * Calling a friend who is a manager at a food processing plant to ask for advice on de-conflicting your field assistants who are constantly blowing up at each other. * Hiring field assistants to measure bird populations for eight months, but instead of counting birds they write a critically acclaimed album about the North Carolina landscape and wildlife. * All these problems going away if you just had a budget to hire people. * Having to carry twice as much water because the adrenaline jockey rushing ahead of you thinks he won't need any water. * Measuring plants for 14 hours a day. * LI-COR machines that measure leaf respiration. * Coming back from your field work after six months and your friends gave up on you because they haven't been able to call you on the phone. * The exhaustion of having to be in charge all the time because you live with your employees. * Refusing to go to town for pizza because you can't afford to be friends with your employees. * Realizing you're becoming somebody's dinner party story. * Developing OCD in your first quarter of college and your roommate moving out because you don't have any coping strategies yet. * Your time to blossom and find other weirdos like yourself, except it turns out even the weirdos don't want to know you. * Discovering that you are crazy in your first year of college and then having to figure out how to navigate this country's broken mental health system while crazy. * Maintaining totally symmetrical stimulus on the left and right sides of your body. * Steamboat captains obsessed with navigating exactly down the middle of the Mississippi river.
Hello SOTAns, This week, we're doing things differently again. We understand that this time is taking up a lot of people's energy–mentally, emotionally, physically. In this time of ongoing protests, while also battling a global pandemic, we did not want to put more on anyone's plate by asking them to use their energy for our podcast. (However, our platforms remains open to anyone who it may benefit.) We, your hosts, are both white and we are taking time to read antiracist literature and educate ourselves on systemic racism that is prevalent in daily life in our country and has been through history. To keep in line with our mission as an arts podcast, we talk about how these educational resources can be applied to the art world. Jasa leads us in a conversation based off readings from the book How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and combines it with statistics of racial disparities in the art world–including commercial galleries, museums, auctions, and biennials. We understand that this may be further exhausting for some audiences, so feel free to sit this one out if so and/or let us know if you have a recommendation for topical subjects. We're thinking of you, Twin Cities/Minnesota/Midwest. Take good care. Your Hosts, Jasa & Sarah References: How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. You can search WorldCat to find a copy near you. An Essential Reading List for Black Liberation, Brought to You by the Schomburg Center - Hyperallergic It's Official, 80% of the Artists in NYC's Top Galleries Are White - ArtNet -Student Population at Yale University - College Tuition Compare An Estimated 85 Percent of Artists Represented in US Museum Collections Are White, a New Study Claims - ArtNet The ‘Winner Takes All' Art Market: 25 Artists Account for Nearly 50% of All Contemporary Auction Sales- Venice Biennale Artists by the Numbers - ArtNet --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sota/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sota/support
About Kenneth Brower is an American environmental writer. He has written a number of books about the environment, national parks, and natural places. He authored the series The Earth’s Wild Places, which was published by the Friends of the Earth in the 1970s. His most widely read book, on Yosemite, is in over 1,200 WorldCat […] The post Episode 39: Kenneth Brower on Saving Point Reyes National Seashore appeared first on Rewilding.
Join us as we explore a world, alongside main character Yeine, of palace intrigues, complex government, and frightfully brutal gods. When summoned by the king of the world, Yeine must travel to the capital of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. There she finds a strange connection to the god, Nahadoth and his godling children. As circumstances unfold, Yeine must chose between herself and the gods, herself and her kingdom, between chaos and order and balance. WARNING: we straight up, very obviously spoil this book. If you don't want to be spoiled on it, read first. Naomi and Kacee would like to dedicate this episode to their late friend, Sheralee, who loved N. K. Jemisin's work. WorldCat (link where available) That's a wrap for season 1! We hope to be back with new content soon!
Today's episode of Research Like a Pro is about how to find articles using the Periodical Source Index (PERSI). There are two different search pages to use. Learn about the differences between them and how to use them effectively to find the articles that might help in your research. We also go over 7 ways to obtain the articles you find in the Periodical Source Index, and how to search using state postal codes. Links How to Search PERSI with State Postal Codes by Nicole at Family Locket PERSI handout - Nicole's handout from her presentation at a local genealogical society Periodical Source Index (PERSI) - FamilySearch Wiki Article PERSI Search Pages at FindMyPast: Option 1: https://search.findmypast.com/search/periodical-source-index – Similar to a Database (Preferred Search page) Option 2: https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/periodical-source-index – Similar to a Catalog PERSI Order Form - from Allen County Public Library WorldCat - largest bibliographic website, shows books availability at various libraries APG Directory - hire a professional in the location you need Tips & tricks for searching PERSI like a pro - at FindMyPast, about changing the page # in the URL Research Like a Pro eCourse Study Group - more information and email list Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist's Guide by Diana Elder with Nicole Dyer on Amazon.com Thank you Thanks for listening! We hope that you will share your thoughts about our podcast and help us out by doing the following: Share an honest review on iTunes or Stitcher. You can easily write a review with Stitcher, without creating an account. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click "write a review." You simply provide a nickname and an email address that will not be published. We value your feedback and your ratings really help this podcast reach others. If you leave a review, we will read it on the podcast and answer any questions that you bring up in your review. Thank you! Leave a comment in the comment or question in the comment section below. Share the episode on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or your favorite podcast app. Sign up for our newsletter to receive notifications of new episodes. Check out this list of genealogy podcasts from Feedspot: Top 20 Genealogy Podcasts
Welcome back to Rico en Sueños all! Lu and Wilson hope episode one was equal parts entertaining and enlightening because they're here to bring you the second submission of the season; and what a submission is it! They've got three fabulous and phenomenal guests for this episode -- Esmeralda Santiago, Isabel Dieppa, and Venessa Vida-Kelley -- who reflect and share their thoughts about the prominent cultural influence the people of Africa brought to the island of Puerto Rico during their enslavement, and how the blending of African, Taino, and Spanish traditions helped to shape Puerto Rico in the country it is today. You can find all of Esmeralda's works via her website and follow her on Twitter - @Esmo. For all things Isabel check out her website and her Twitter - @IsabelSDieppa. For more of Manu and Venessa's works visit here and here, and also follow her on Twitter - @VScrivanoKelley (she's a big Wayward Son fan!) If you're interested in the "War Against All Puerto Ricans" recommendation, consider purchasing it from your local bookstore OR picking it up at your local library. You can locate a local bookstore via Indiebound.org and you can locate your neighborhood library via Worldcat.org. Many thanks to our supporters, you can join them by subscribing to our patreon. Credits: Vanessa Flores, Audio Engineer Deviant Sounds, Composer Vanessa Flores, Cover Art
Originally Published in 1974. Apparently the Horror books bring out the swears, so be mindful of the language in this episode. Also, maybe all the blood and death. This week we read Stephen King's first novel of TK, high school bullying, and death. Join us as we discuss Carrie. Find it on WorldCat
Everything you touch, you change, Everything you change, changes you. This week we discuss the highly philosophical Parable of the Sower. We give a small content warning in the beginning but this book contains mentions of slavery, post apocolyptic matter, sexual violence, graphic violence, and questionable consent at times. We don't go in depth, but since we do mention it we wanted to give a warning all the same. Find a copy on WorldCat
This week, we're talking ceramics! Anna and Amber explain how bits of pottery aren't called shards, but do hold lots of secrets (and sometimes blood!), the role of ceramics in archaeology, evidence for amateur and student potters, and how Amber clearly didn't miss her calling as a ceramic artist. LinksBasic Concepts: Pottery in the Archaeological Record (Archaeology Review) [https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2007/01/basic-concepts-pottery-in-the-archaeological-record/]Ancient Chinese pottery confirmed as the oldest yet found (The Guardian) [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jun/28/ancient-chinese-pottery-oldest-yet]Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) in the Study of Archaeological Ceramics (Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis) [https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199681532.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199681532-e-24]Thule tradition (University of Waterloo) [http://anthropology.uwaterloo.ca/ArcticArchStuff/thule.html]Ceramic Technology of Arctic Alaska: An Experimental and Adaptive Craft (Teal Sullivan) [http://www.tealsullivan.com/ceramics/arcticpottery/]How to Make an Unfired Clay Cooking Pot: Understanding the Technological Choices Made by Arctic Potters (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25653111?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents]Muweilah (Universes in Universe) [https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/sharjah/archaeological-sites/muweilah]Prehistoric Children Working and Playing: A Southwestern Case Study in Learning Ceramics (Journal of Archaeological Research) [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/jar.57.4.3631354]The Dirt Book Club! When Clay Sings (via WorldCat) [https://www.worldcat.org/title/when-clay-sings/oclc/340283]ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast
This week, we're talking ceramics! Anna and Amber explain how bits of pottery aren't called shards, but do hold lots of secrets (and sometimes blood!), the role of ceramics in archaeology, evidence for amateur and student potters, and how Amber clearly didn't miss her calling as a ceramic artist. LinksBasic Concepts: Pottery in the Archaeological Record (Archaeology Review) [https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2007/01/basic-concepts-pottery-in-the-archaeological-record/]Ancient Chinese pottery confirmed as the oldest yet found (The Guardian) [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jun/28/ancient-chinese-pottery-oldest-yet]Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) in the Study of Archaeological Ceramics (Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis) [https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199681532.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199681532-e-24]Thule tradition (University of Waterloo) [http://anthropology.uwaterloo.ca/ArcticArchStuff/thule.html]Ceramic Technology of Arctic Alaska: An Experimental and Adaptive Craft (Teal Sullivan) [http://www.tealsullivan.com/ceramics/arcticpottery/]How to Make an Unfired Clay Cooking Pot: Understanding the Technological Choices Made by Arctic Potters (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25653111?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents]Muweilah (Universes in Universe) [https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/sharjah/archaeological-sites/muweilah]Prehistoric Children Working and Playing: A Southwestern Case Study in Learning Ceramics (Journal of Archaeological Research) [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/jar.57.4.3631354]The Dirt Book Club! When Clay Sings (via WorldCat) [https://www.worldcat.org/title/when-clay-sings/oclc/340283]ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast
Elaine Kiesling Whitehouse knows a good story when she sees it, and those stories often come from history. Writing from an early age, she was intrigued by the signs of the past all around her. There was a WWI era German radio transmitting station across the street and the decaying windmill of a former Gilded Age estate down the block. On today's episode, we discuss Elaine's writing history and how she has drawn on Long Island's past for inspiration. Her novel Hart's Tavern, set in Revolutionary War-era Patchogue, sprang from a roadside marker commemorating George Washington's trip through the area in 1790. She also relates the valuable lessons she learned as the editor of the Fire Island Tide as well as the writing career of her husband, Jack Whitehouse. Research Hart's Tavern (find in a library via WorldCat) 3 Legends of Fire Island and the Great South Bay (find in a library via WorldCat) Elaine Kiesling Whitehouse (LI Authors Group) Hart's Tavern Historical Marker Bourne Windmill The Radio Tower podcast Revisiting Telefunken (SCN) Audio Footnotes Truth Behind the Spies with Bev Tyler Terry Ketcham Inn Mark Rothenberg Mary Lou Cohalan Warren McDowell
The question we get more than any other here at Radiolab is “Where do all those stories come from?” Today, for the first time ever, we divulge our secret recipe for story-finding. Veteran Radiolab story scout Latif Nasser takes our newest producer Rachael Cusick along for what he calls “the world’s biggest scavenger hunt.” Together, they’ll make you want to bake some cookies and find some true stories. But we can’t find, much less tell, true stories without you. Find it in yourself to donate and help us make another year of this possible. It's a choice only you can make. Radiolab.org/support Here are story-finding resources mentioned in this episode: The World's Biggest Scavenger Hunt: Latif's Transom post on story scouting Google Alerts: Set up your own! Wikipedia Random Article: Play wiki roulette by clicking "random article" in the far-left column WorldCat: to find where a book exists in a library near you ArchiveGrid: to search libraries' special collections and oral histories Trade Publications: Search for trade magazines by industry Cusick Cookies: Rachael's cookie recipe...you're welcome.
How do historians come up with questions and find sources with answers? What are the ins and outs of working in an archive? In an episode chock full of resources, Ryan waxes poetic about overcoming the obstacles of taking research from conception to completion. Links: Klaus Gietinger on Wolfgang Niess, Die Revolution von 1918/19: Der wahre Beginn unserer Demokratie and Joachim Käppner, 1918 – Aufstand für die Freiheit: Die Revolution der Besonnenen. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-28872 Archivportal www.archivportal-d.de Center for Research Libraries http://www.crl.edu/ Worldcat (for all your ILL needs) https://www.worldcat.org/ NARA Captured German Records https://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records Digitized Finding Aids for the Records of Reich Leader SS and Chief of German Police https://www.archives.gov/files/research/microfilm/t175-1.pdf https://www.archives.gov/files/research/microfilm/t175-2.pdf https://www.archives.gov/files/research/microfilm/t175-3.pdf
Jackalope Rabbit Breed - Wolpertinger - Skvader - Al-Miraj - Mayan Folktale - Knowledge - Lobelia Learn more about Rabbit Breeds, history, superstations, news, folk tales, and pop culture. Discover cool facts, Rabbit Care, resources and Rabbit Breed Info at the website http://www.hareoftherabbit.com/ If you would like to support the project, you can support through Patreon for one dollar a month. Patreon is an established online platform that allows fans to provide regular financial support to creators. you can also support the podcast, and help keep the lights on, whenever you use Amazon through the link at Hare of the Rabbit on the support the podcast page. It will not cost you anything extra, and I can not see who purchased what. The jackalope legends of the American Southwest are stories of a more recent vintage, consisting of purported sightings of rabbits or hares with horns like antelopes. The legend may have been brought to North American by German immigrants, derived from the Raurackl (or horned rabbit) of the German folklore tradition. http://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2014/12/the-folklore-of-rabbits-hares.html Jackalope The jackalope is a mythical animal of North American folklore (a fearsome critter) described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns. The word "jackalope" is a portmanteau of "jackrabbit" and "antelope", although the jackrabbit is not a rabbit, and the pronghorn is not an antelope. Also, many jackalope taxidermy mounts, including the original, are actually made with deer antlers. Jackrabbits are actually hares rather than rabbits though both are mammals in the order Lagomorpha. Wyoming is home to three species of hares, all in the genus Lepus. These are the black-tailed jackrabbit, the white-tailed jackrabbit, and the snowshoe hare. The antelope is actually a pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) rather than an antelope, although one of its colloquial names in North America is "antelope". Some of the largest herds of wild pronghorns, which are found only in western North America, are in Wyoming. The adults grow to about 3 feet (1 m) tall, weigh up to 150 pounds (68 kg), and can run at sustained speeds approaching 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). Tall tales The jackalope is subject to many outlandish and largely tongue-in-cheek claims embedded in tall tales about its habits. Jackalopes are said to be so dangerous that hunters are advised to wear stovepipes on their legs to keep from being gored. Jackalope milk is particularly sought after because it is believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac—for which reason the jackalope is also sometimes referred to as the ‘horny rabbit.’ However, it can be incredibly dangerous to milk a jackalope, and any attempt to do so is not advised. A peculiar feature of the milk is that it comes from the animal already homogenized on account of the creature’s powerful leaps. Stores in Douglas sell jackalope milk, but The New York Times questioned its authenticity on grounds that milking a jackalope is known to be fraught with risk. One of the ways to catch a jackalope is to entice it with whiskey, the jackalope's beverage of choice. Once intoxicated, the animal becomes slower and easier to hunt. The jackalope can imitate the human voice, according to legend. During the days of the Old West, when cowboys gathered by the campfires singing at night, jackalopes could be heard mimicking their voices or singing along, usually as a tenor. When chased, the jackalope will use its vocal abilities to elude capture. For instance, when chased by people, it will call out phrases such as, “There he goes, over there,” in order to throw pursuers off its track. Reportedly, jackalopes are extremely shy unless approached. If you encounter a jackalope, quickly fall to the ground, and remain calm and still while humming the Roy Rogers song, “Happy Trails to You.” It is said that jackalopes, the rare Lepus antilocapra, only breed during lightning flashes and that their antlers make the act difficult despite the hare's reputation for fertility. Whether the jackalope actually exists or is simply a hoax popularized by a Douglas, Wyoming resident in 1939, is still hotly debated today. For those who believe, the jackalope is said to be an antlered species of rabbit, sometimes rumored to be extinct. One of the rarest animals in the world, it is a cross between a now extinct pygmy-deer and a species of killer-rabbit. However, occasional sightings of this rare creature continue to occur, with small pockets of jackalope populations persisting in the American West. The antlered species of rabbit are brownish in color, weight between three and five pounds, and move with lighting speeds of up to 90 miles per hour. They are said to be vicious when attacked and use their antlers to fight, thus they are sometimes called the "warrior rabbit.” History: Origins Plate XLVII of Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra) by Joris Hoefnagel, circa 1575, showing a "horned hare" Stories or descriptions of animal hybrids have appeared in many cultures worldwide. A 13th-century Persian work depicts a rabbit with a single horn, like a unicorn. In Europe, the horned rabbit appeared in Medieval and Renaissance folklore in Bavaria (the wolpertinger) and elsewhere. Natural history texts such as Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupetibus Libri (The History Book of Natural Quadrangles) by Joannes Jonstonus (John Jonston) in the 17th century and illustrations such as Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra): Plate XLVII by Joris Hoefnagel (1522–1600) in the 16th century included the horned hare. These early scientific texts described and illustrated the hybrids as though they were real creatures, but by the end of the 18th century scientists generally rejected the idea of horned hares as a biological species. The Jackalope was first encountered by John Colter, one of the first white men to enter what would one day be the State of Wyoming. Thought to be a myth by many, the jackalope is alleged to actually exists in remote areas of Wyoming. The New York Times attributes the American jackalope's origin to a 1932 hunting outing involving Douglas Herrick (1920–2003) of Douglas, Wyoming. Herrick and his brother had studied taxidermy by mail order as teenagers, and when the brothers returned from a hunting trip for jackrabbits, Herrick tossed a carcass into the taxidermy store, where it came to rest beside a pair of deer antlers. The accidental combination of animal forms sparked Herrick's idea for a jackalope. The first jackalope the brothers put together was sold for $10 to Roy Ball, who displayed it in Douglas' La Bonte Hotel. The mounted head was stolen in 1977. Mr. Herrick made only about 1,000 or so horned rabbit trophies before going on to other things. His brother kept churning out jackalopes. Mr. Herrick grew up on a ranch near Douglas and served as a tail gunner on a B-17 during World War II. He worked as a taxidermist until 1954, when he became a welder and pipe fitter for Amoco Refinery until his retirement in 1980. Once he (and soon his son) began to produce jackalope mounts, it seemed to take only moments for the world to embrace this weird icon of the West. By the time Herrick senior passed away at the age of 82, the two men had fashioned thousands. The jackalope became a popular local attraction in Douglas, where the Chamber of Commerce issues Jackalope Hunting Licenses to tourists. The tags are good for hunting during official jackalope season, which occurs for only one day: June 31 (a nonexistent date as June has 30 days), from midnight to 2 a.m. The hunter must have an IQ greater than 50 but not over 72. Thousands of "licenses" have been issued. In Herrick's home town of Douglas, there is an 8-foot (2.4 m) statue of a jackalope, and the town hosts an annual Jackalope Days Celebration in early June. Before discovery of uranium, coal, oil and natural gas doubled the town's population to about 7,500 in the mid-1970s, Douglas specialized in selling jackalope souvenirs. The Herricks fed the increasing demand for the stuffed and mounted trophies. Tens of thousands have been sold. Proud city fathers later added a 13-foot-tall jackalope cutout on a hillside and placed jackalope images on park benches and firetrucks, among other things. Building on the Herrick's success, Frank English of Rapid City, South Dakota has made and sold many thousands of jackalopes since retiring from the Air Force in 1981. He is the only supplier of the altered animal heads to Cabela's, a major outdoor-theme retail company. His standard jackalopes and "world-record" jackalopes sell for about $150. Stuffed and mounted, jackalopes are found in many bars and other places in the United States; stores catering to tourists sell jackalope postcards and other paraphernalia, and commercial entities in America and elsewhere have used the word "jackalope" or a jackalope logo as part of their marketing strategies. Folklorists see the jackalope as one of a group of fabled creatures common to American culture since Colonial days. These appear in tall tales about hodags, giant turtles, Bigfoot, and many other mysterious beasts and in novels like Moby-Dick. The tales lend themselves to comic hoaxing by entrepreneurs who seek attention for their products, their persons, or their towns. But here’s the kicker: rabbits with horns are real as rain! Dr. Richard E. Shope, discoverer of the vaccine for HPVIn a strange twist of fate, around about the time that Herrick was becoming the Frankenstein of the bunny world, Dr. Richard E. Shope was hard at work in his lab. He had seen prints and drawings of horned rabbits going back to the 1500s and wondered if there was anything to them. References to horned rabbits may originate in sightings of rabbits affected by the Shope papilloma virus, named for Richard E. Shope, M.D., who described it in a scientific journal in 1933. Shope initially examined wild cottontail rabbits that had been shot by hunters in Iowa and later examined wild rabbits from Kansas. They had "numerous horn-like protuberances on the skin over various parts of their bodies. The animals were referred to popularly as 'horned' or 'warty' rabbits." He had a hunch that a virus caused rabbits (and other animals) to sprout crusty protrusions that looked like horns. He even had samples of the “horns,” and his tests showed they were made of keratin, the same stuff that our hair and fingernails – and animal horns -- are made of. Turns out Dr. Shope was right. His experiments proved that the horns appearing on rabbits were created by cells infected by the Shope papilloma virus (you discover it, you get to name it, I guess). And they could appear anywhere on the animal, not just the head. In addition, a version of the virus can produce the same effect in humans, called “cutaneous horn.” So yes, there are horned human beings trotting around! Shope’s discovery lead to research into the development of the human papilloma virus vaccine, which is based on the rabbit virus. Legends about horned rabbits also occur in Asia and Africa as well as Europe, and researchers suspect the changes induced by the virus might underlie at least some of those tales. In Europe actually various species of rabbit who have become unfortunate victims of Shope papilloma virus, which causes cancerous horny growths upon the animal. Cases in humans are almost unknown, although we have one example within the collection. This rabbit specimen shows one single large horn from the top of the cranium, and several smaller horns protruding from its spine. Analysis of this specimen did show however that the growths did not afflict the animals ability to live a normal life, were not cancerous and there is evidence that the virus would easily be transmitted to its young. According to Merrylin, a colony of rabbits infected with a unique strain of the virus were found in Lucerne, Switzerland, and all animals lived healthy lives despite their horns, which were apparently “strangely uniform.” Merrylin hypothesised that it would be possible to consider this as a benign inherited mutation caused by the virus, because the growths themselves were not malignant or life threatening, and appeared in all generations. In Central America, mythological references to a horned rabbit creature can be found in Huichol legends. The Huichol oral tradition has passed down tales of a horned rabbit and of the deer getting horns from the rabbit. The rabbit and deer were paired, though not combined as a hybrid, as day signs in the calendar of the Mesoamerican period of the Aztecs, as twins, brothers, even the sun and moon. Official recognition In 2005, the legislature of Wyoming considered a bill to make the jackalope the state's official mythological creature. It passed the House by a 45–12 margin, but the session ended before the Senate could take up the bill, which died. In 2013, following the death of the bill's sponsor, Dave Edwards, the state legislature reintroduced the bill. It again passed the House but died in the rules committee of the Senate. In 2015, three state representatives put forth the jackalope proposal again, this time as House Bill 66, and again it passed the House but died in a Senate committee. One of the co-sponsors, Dan Zwonitzer, said, "I’ll keep bringing it back until it passes." In 2014, the Wyoming Lottery adopted a jackalope logo for its lottery tickets and marketing materials. Lottery officials chose the fictitious animal, which they named YoLo, over the bucking horse and other state symbols. In popular culture The town of Douglas, Wyoming, has declared itself to be the Jackalope capital of America because, according to legend, the first jackalope was spotted there around 1829. In 1965, an eight foot concrete statue was erected in downtown Douglas and today billboards, and jackalope images can be seen all over Douglas -- on park benches, fire trucks, motel signs, and a 13-foot-tall jackalope cutout on a hillside. The city is also very good about warning visitors of the "vicious” animal’s propensity to attack, so tourists will see a number of posted warning signs throughout the town: "Watch out for the Jackalope." Jackalope Country, now plans to build yet another giant jackalope. Towering over I-25, the giant fiberglass jackalope will stand 80 feet above the plains. The student magazine of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in New Mexico is called The Jackalope. On the other side of the world, The Hop Factory craft beer cafe in Newcastle, Australia, uses a leaping jackalope as its logo. In 1986, James Abdnor, a senator from South Dakota, gave U.S. President Ronald Reagan a stuffed jackalope (rabbit head with antlers) during a presidential campaign stop in Rapid City. Many books, including a large number written for children, feature the jackalope. A search for "jackalope" in the WorldCat listings of early 2015 produced 225 hits, including 57 for books. Among them is Juan and the Jackalope: A Children's Book in Verse by Rudolfo Anaya. The WorldCat summary of Anaya's book says: "Competing for the hand of the lovely Rosita and her rhubarb pie, Juan rides a Jackalope in a race against Pecos Bill." A short story, "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon, has been nominated for a 2014 Nebula Award. Musicians have used the jackalope in various ways. R. Carlos Nakai, a Native American flute player, formerly belonged to a group called Jackalope. In the late 1980s, it performed what Nakai called "synthacousticpunkarachiNavajazz", which combined "improvisation, visual art, storytelling, dance and dramatic theatrical effects." Nakai said he wanted people to dream as they listened to the music. Jakalope is a Canadian alternative pop/rock group formed in 2003 by Dave "Rave" Ogilvie. The band Miike Snow uses the jackalope as its logo. Band member Andrew Wyatt said during an interview in 2012 that the logo was meant to signify experiment and adventure. Of the 225 Worldcat hits resulting from a search for "jackalope", 95 were related to music. Jackalopes have appeared in movies and on television. A jackalope named "Jack Ching Bada Bing" was a recurring character in a series of sketches on the television show America's Funniest People. The show's host, Dave Coulier, voiced the rascally hybrid. In 2003, Pixar featured a jackalope in the short animation Boundin'. The jackalope gave helpful advice to a lamb who was feeling sad after being shorn. Jackalopes have appeared in video games. In Red Dead Redemption, the player is able to hunt and skin jackalopes. Redneck Rampage, jackalopes, including one the size of a bus, are enemies. Jackalopes are part of the action in Guild Wars 2. A low-budget jackalope mockumentary, Stagbunny, aired in Casper and Douglas in 2006. the movie included interviews with the owner of a Douglas sporting goods store who claimed to harbor a live jackalope on his premises and with a paleontologist who explained the natural history of the jackalope and its place in the fossil record. Beginning in 1997, the Central Hockey League included a team called the Odessa Jackalopes. The team joined the South Division of the North American Hockey League before the 2011–12 season. An Odessa sports writer expressed concern about the team's name, which he found insufficiently intimidating and which sounded like "something you might eat for breakfast." Jackalope Brewing Company, the first commercial brewery in Tennessee run by women, opened in Nashville in 2011. Its four craft beers are Thunder Ann, Rompo, Bearwalker, and Leghorn. Scholarly interpretations Folklorist John A. Gutowski sees in the Douglas jackalope an example of an American tall tale publicized by a local community that seeks wider recognition. Through a combination of hoax and media activity, the town or other community draws attention to itself for social or economic reasons. A common adjunct to this activity involves the creation of an annual festival to perpetuate the town's association with the local legend. Gutowski finds evidence of what he calls the "protofestival" pattern throughout the United States. Common to these tales, Gutowski says, is the recurring motif of the quest for the mythical animal, often a monster. The same motif, he notes, appears in American novels such as Moby Dick and Old Man and the Sea and in monster movies such as King Kong and Jaws and in world literature such as Beowulf. The monster motif also appears in tales of contemporary places outside the United States, such as Scotland, with its Loch Ness Monster. What is not global, Gutowski says, is the embrace of local monster tales by American communities that put them to use through "public relations hoaxes, boisterous boosterism, and a carnival atmosphere... ". He traces the impulse and the methods to the promotional literature of colonial times that depicted North America as an earthly paradise. Much later, in the 19th century, settlers transferred that optimistic vision to the American West, where it culminated in "boosterism". Although other capitalist countries advertise their products, Dorson says, "...the intensity of the American ethos in advertising, huckstering, attention-getting, media-manipulating to sell a product, a personality, a town is beyond compare." The Jackalope also appears to have a European cousin, in Germany, known as the wolperdinger, and in Sweden, a related species called the skvader. Illustrations of horned hares go back as far as the 16th century in scholarly European works. Wolpertinger In the Bavarian Alps, a strange-looking creature with antlers, fangs, wings and a tail roams quietly through the forests - according to folklore, that is. This mythological creature is what Germans call a Wolpertinger - a hybrid species that you've probably never seen before. Some kids in Bavaria grow up believing in the Wolpertinger and may even search for the rare animals when walking through the woods. Bavarians have done a pretty good job at making the myth believable: tourist shops sometimes sell stuffed animals that look like Wolpertinger and the Deutsches Jagdt- und Fischereimuseum in Munich even has a permanent exhibit on it. It is not known exactly when or where the myth of the Wolpertinger originated, but the museum in Munich suggests that it may have come from a town called Wolterdingen, where glass makers created shot glasses in the form of animals and called them Wolterdinger. This could in fact be true, since different regions have different names for the creature, ranging from Woipertinger to Woiperdinger to Wulpertinger. Bavarian folklore tells of the wolpertinger (also called wolperdinger or woiperdinger), a mythological hybrid animal allegedly inhabiting the alpine forests of Bavaria in Germany. These mythological creatures are known by every Bavarian as being mischievous. Description Germans don't have a clear definition. A Wolpertinger is basically a creature made up of many different animal parts. For example, it could have a squirrel's body, a rabbit's head, deer antlers and wings. Some might have the head of a fox; others may have the feet of a duck or a pheasant. Stuffed "wolpertingers", composed of parts of actual stuffed animals, are often displayed in inns or sold to tourists as souvenirs in the animals' "native regions". The Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum in Munich, Germany features a permanent exhibit on the creature. Images of creatures resembling wolpertingers have been found in woodcuts and engravings dating back to the 17th century. According to folklore, the hybrid animals are shy and difficult to catch. They primarily eat other small animals, herbs and roots. But no matter how hard you try, the chance of finding a Wolpertinger in Germany are about as slim as finding a jackalope in the United States. The best way to catch a Wolpertinger, according to legend, is to be a beautiful young woman (or be in the company of one), since Wolpertingers have a weakness for female beauty. The woman should go out into a forest at night while the moon is full and find a secluded nook where a Wolpertinger is likely to be. Hopefully, the creature will soon reveal itself. When it does the woman should expose her breasts. This will cause the Wolpertinger to instantly fall into a stupor, allowing it to easily be bagged. In popular culture Wolpertingers feature in the MMORPG RuneScape as creatures that can be summoned. It is depicted as a combination of a rabbit and a wolf. Wolpertingers are the main characters in the novel Rumo by Walter Moers. The novel depicts them as anthropomorphic dogs with small horns. Wolpertingers and Skvaders appear in "Adventure Path #61: Shards of Sin" for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game as encounters and also as new familiar options for spellcasters. A wolpertinger features on one of the special animal tiles in the Winter Edition of Carcassonne. The wolpertinger features as a monster in Here Be Monsters. The game can also be found on Facebook. Wolpertingers are an obtainable pet in the MMORPG World of Warcraft during the Brewfest event. Wolpertingers are an obtainable mount in the MMORPG Tibia. Wolpertinger is the German translation for jackalope in the game Guild Wars 2. The Wolpertinger is a monster encountered in the jungle in the text-based MMORPG Improbable Island. Wolpertingers are common background creatures in the Land of a Thousand Fables adventure in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine. The San Francisco storytelling group Odd Salon uses a Wolpertinger (named Harvey) as their mascot. Wolpertingers are usually found in the forests of Bavaria. (It is common for Bavarian pubs to display stuffed wolpertingers.) Variant regional spellings of the name include Wolperdinger, Woipertinger, and Volpertinger. They are part of a larger family of horned mammals that exist throughout the Germanic regions of Europe, such as the Austrian Raurackl (which is basically identical to the wolpertinger), the Thuringian Rasselbock (which looks more like the American jackalope), and the north Hessian Dilldapp (kind of hamster-like). They're also related to the Swedish Skvader, as well as being a European cousin of the Jackalope. Also in other cultures, you can find such animals just like the “Jackalope (or Jackrabbit)” in the USA, the “Skvader” in Sweden and the “Dahu” in France. You can find a stuffed specimen in the Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum (German Hunting and Fishing Museum), located in Neuhauser Str. 2 near Marienplatz (city center) and Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady). So if you’re in Munich make sure to have a look at one of the Wolpertingers. Either in the Hunting and Fishing Museum or in traditional Bars and Pubs. Skvader skvader The skvader is a species of winged hare indigenous to Sweden. According to legend, this unusual animal was first discovered by a hunter named Håkan Dahlmark in 1874. Eventually a stuffed specimen of the creature was put on display in the Historical Preservation Society in Sundsvall where it remains to this day. Visitors report that the animal looks rather like a cross between a hare and a wood grouse cock. A statue of a skvader was also erected in a small park in Sundsvall in 1994. Although the skvader is much beloved in Sweden, the term itself is often used colloquially to mean "a bad compromise." The skvader [ˈskvɑːdər] is a Swedish fictional creature that was constructed in 1918 by the taxidermist Rudolf Granberg and is permanently displayed at the museum at Norra Berget in Sundsvall. It has the forequarters and hindlegs of a European hare (Lepus europaeus), and the back, wings and tail of a female wood grouse (Tetrao urogallus). It was later jokingly given the Latin name Tetrao lepus pseudo-hybridus rarissimus L. The name is a combination of two words, and this is the explanation provided by the Svenska Akademiens ordbok (Dictionary of the Swedish Academy): "The prefix skva- from 'skvattra' (quack or chirp), and the suffix -der from 'tjäder' (wood grouse)". Origins The skvader originates from a tall tale hunting story told by a man named Håkan Dahlmark during a dinner at a restaurant in Sundsvall in the beginning of the 20th century. To the amusement of the other guests, Dahlmark claimed that he in 1874 had shot such an animal during a hunt north of Sundsvall. On his birthday in 1907, his housekeeper jokingly presented him with a painting of the animal, made by her nephew and shortly before his death in 1912, Dahlmark donated the painting to a local museum. During an exhibition in Örnsköldsvik in 1916 the manager of the museum became acquainted with the taxidermist Rudolf Granberg. He then mentioned the hunting story and the painting and asked Granberg if he could re-construct the animal. In 1918 Granberg had completed the skvader and it has since then been a very popular exhibition item at the museum, which also has the painting on display. A strikingly similar creature called the "rabbit-bird" was described by Pliny the Elder in Natural History. This creature had the body of a bird with a rabbit's head and was said to have inhabited the Alps. A road sign on the approach to the museum warns drivers for skvaders on the road. The skvader has since then often been seen as an unofficial symbol for Sundsvall and when the province Medelpad was to be given a provincial animal (in addition to the provincial flower) in 1987, many locals voted for the skvader. The final choice was a kind of compromise, the mountain hare, which is the front-end of the skvader. Other uses The term "skvader" is nowadays used colloquially in Swedish to mean "a bad compromise" or "a combination of contradicting elements". "Skvader" also became the nickname in the 1950s and 1960s for a combination bus and lorry (truck) which was commonly used on small bus routes in Norrland; the front-end was a bus taking passengers and the back-end was an open loading bay, often used for delivering milk from small farmers to the nearest dairy. "Skvaderns" is also an herbal liqueur made with herbs from the forest Lunde Skog, the place Skvaderns first were shot at. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope http://www.legendsofamerica.com/wy-jackalope.html http://www.jackalopearts.org/jajackalope.html https://yeoldecuriosityshop.com/blogs/news/17793604-are-jackalopes-real https://jackalope.com/the-legend-of-jackalope/ http://www.merrylinmuseum.com/jackalope/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger http://hoaxes.org/animals/comments/wolpertinger http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/GIC/TWIG__WoW/2014/40-Wolpertinger.html http://munich-greeter.de/en/2014/10/was-ist-ein-wolpertinger/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skvader http://hoaxes.org/animals/comments/skvader Folktale: Al-mi'raj From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Al-mi'raj (Arabic: المعراج al-mi'raj) is a mythical beast from Arabic poetry said to live on a mysterious island called Jezîrat al-Tennyn within the confines of the Indian Ocean. Its name can be broken up several different ways, though is generally seen truncated as Mi'raj, Mir'aj or just Miraj. Its name is also synonymous with Muhammad's ascent into heaven. Al-mi'raj is a large, harmless-looking yellow rabbit with a single, 2-foot-long (0.61 m), black, spiraling horn protruding from its forehead, much like that of a unicorn. Despite its docile appearance, Al-Mir'aj is actually a ferociously territorial predator known to be able to kill animals and people many times their own size with a few stabs of its horn. It also has an immense appetite and can devour other living things several times its size without effort. Al-Mir'aj frightens other animals and they will always flee from its presence due to this. The people of the island were so terrified of Al-Mi'raj eating them and their livestock that they would turn to witches to ward them away as soon as the rumor of a Miraj met their ears. It was reported that only a true witch would charm the Miraj, rendering it harmless so the people could remove the Miraj from the area. It is possible this myth originates from observations of the effects of any one of several diseases in rabbits that can create horn-like growths upon the bodies of animals, most commonly Fibromatosis and Papillomatosis. Papillomatosis is the result of a virus infecting the skin, causing a large, red, swelling growth on the skin of the subject. These red marks may have appeared to be where horns had broken off or were shed. Fibromatosis is a similar virus which infects the skin and causes the flesh of the rabbit to mat with hair, hardening into long, hard horn-like protrusions. Both diseases could account for the appearance of wild, fierce (with pain) rabbits with "horns" as infected specimens have been found, catalogued and are well documented. Now this is a MAYAN tale about the rabbit http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/rabbit.html Translated and edited by Fernando Peñalosa and Janet Sawyer RABBIT AND HIS CAP OF ANTLERS Once when the rabbit, that is, the mayor, still had his antlers, he met a deer. The rabbit said to the deer: "Brother, look at the cap [antlers] Our Father gave me." "Come here, brother," said the deer, "Lend it to me," said the deer to the rabbit. "You're too small, it doesn't fit you, but I'm big.Maybe your cap will fit me, I'm going to try it on my head." The rabbit handed his cap to the deer and the deer put it on his head:. "Look brother, how nice it looks on me. I'm going to dance so you can see. Then I'm going for a walk and afterwards I'll come back here to you and I'll give you your cap back," said the deer to the rabbit. The deer went off and didn't come back with the rabbit's cap. The rabbit was waiting for him, just waiting and crying because he didn't have his cap any more. It occurred to him to get up from where he was crying and go notify his king. He came before the king: "Father!" said the rabbit to the king. "What have you come to tell me, my son?" the king asked the rabbit. "My brother went off with the cap you gave me, father. My brother, the deer told me he was just going to try it on, and I gave him the cap you had given me, father." "'Why did our father give it to you?' the deer asked me. 'Our father should have given it to me, because I'm big. Your cap fits me well,' my brother said. I thought he was my brother. So I gave it to him, but he just went off with it any way. He left, and I just sat waiting for him to come back with my cap. He didn't come back and I got tired of waiting for him so long. That's why I have come to ask you, father, to give me another cap in place of the one my brother took, and also make me taller because my uncle deer said I was too little." "'That cap doesn't fit you,' he told me, father. That's why I want to grow as big as my uncle deer." "All right, I'll make your taller, my son. I'll make your body grow. If you do what I say, I'll give you what you ask for," said the king to the rabbit. "What shall I do for you, father?" asked the rabbit. "Now I'm telling you that if you want to be as big as your brother the deer, I'm going to grant your wish," said the king to the rabbit. "Now, go and bring me fifteen loads of skins. If you bring them to me I'll make your body grow and I'll give you your cap back." "All right," said the rabbit, and went off to the fields, to the mountains and to the sea. The rabbit bought himself a guitar. When he came to a plain he sat down to rest. He had been playing music with his guitar for a while when an old snake came up to him. "What are you doing, brother?" the snake asked brother rabbit. "I've come to play music for you, uncle," said the rabbit to the snake. "Oh, your song** is sad, uncle," said the snake to Uncle Rabbit. "Yes," said the rabbit to the snake. "May I dance a little?" the snake asked Uncle Rabbit. The rabbit answered: "Of course you may dance. That's why I came to play a song for you. But I would just like to ask you, uncle, where is your weak spot? Because my marimba stick*** might reach your weak spot. Show it to me, so I can see where it is," said the rabbit to the snake. "All right, brother," said the snake. "Here's my weak spot, right at the end of my tail." "All right, brother, now that I've noticed where your weak spot is, you can dance without worrying," Uncle Rabbit told the snake. The rabbit needed to collect skins, but the snake didn't suspect what the rabbit was planning to do to him. "Dance! Go ahead and dance. Enjoy your dance," said the rabbit to the snake, " because that's why I came to play near your house. Dance, enjoy, and don't be afraid. Here, come close to me." When he saw him nearby, the rabbit thought: "He's mine now. I know where his weak spot is." The snake danced and came near the rabbit. "Bring your tail near," said the rabbit to the snake. The snake raised his tail near the rabbit. The rabbit saw that the snake was near him and he killed him. Then he skinned him and went off with his skin. The rabbit came to a mountain and began to play his guitar once more. Shortly after he had come to the mountain a big old lion approached Uncle Rabbit. He was playing his music when the lion arrived. "Hey, uncle, why have you come here to play?" the lion asked the rabbit. "I've just have come to play, brother," the rabbit said. "Do you like music?" "Yes, I like music." said the lion. "Do you like to dance?" the rabbit asked the lion. "Yes, I like to," the lion answered. "If you'll play a song for me, I'll be wanting to dance," said the lion. "I'm going to play some music for you, because the reason I came to your house was to play music. Dance, enjoy your dance. Don't be afraid, Good, dance, only tell me where your weak spot is. I'd just like to ask you where your weak spot is. Dance, enjoy your dance," said the rabbit to the lion. "All right, brother, here's my weak spot, right here, on the back of my neck." "All right brother," said the rabbit. "Dance uncle, dance, dance, dance. Don't be afraid, come closer, come here beside me. I know where your weak spot is, so I won't hit you there. I know where it is. Try to dance a little bent over." The lion became careless while he was dancing, and the rabbit hit him on the head. The lion died, the rabbit skinned him and took away two more skins, two large skins. The rabbit walked, and walked and walked. He took his skins to a place on the beach, and played there once more. An alligator heard the rabbit playing a song and came up to him: "Is that you playing, Uncle Rabbit?" the alligator asked. "Yes, I'm the one who is playing for you," said the rabbit, "for I want you to dance. I thought maybe uncle would like a song. So I came to play a song for you." "Oh, is it true what you say? I like songs and I would like you to play one for me," said the alligator. "All right, I'll play you a song, but you have to dance." "Yes, I'll dance, for I really like to," the alligator told Uncle Rabbit. "I'd like to ask you where your weak spot is. Just tell me where your weak spot is. Don't worry, just show me where it is. If my marimba stick hits you, you could die," said Uncle Rabbit to the alligator. "All right, brother, my weak spot is here, right at the end of my tail," said the alligator. "All right, so dance. Dance with all your might and stretch out your tail." While he was dancing the alligator became careless and the rabbit hit his weak spot. The alligator died and the rabbit skinned him. The rabbit left the beach and came near a plantation where there was sugar cane, where there were bananas, where there were oranges, where there were sapotes. Near the plantation there was a house with monkeys and coatis, as well as two other households. He came to one of the houses bringing bananas. "Ah," the monkeys said to him "do you have bananas, uncle?" "Here, have some." said the rabbit to one of the monkeys. "All right," said the monkey. The monkey ate the bananas. Then the rabbit said: "Here you're just starving, but I have a plantation nearby where there are a lot of good things to eat. There are bananas, there is sugar cane, there are oranges, there are sapotes," said the rabbit to the monkeys. "All right, uncle, give us some," said the monkeys to the rabbit. "There's a lot of food, and it's just going to waste, because there's no one to eat it," said the rabbit to the monkeys. "Tomorrow we'll go to my plantation, all of you and your families, and if there are some others they can come with us too. Aren't there some other friends of ours here?" the rabbit asked the monkeys. "Oh, if you please, there's another family of our friends that are hungry; they have no food," the monkeys told the rabbit. "Tomorrow you're all going to go with me," the rabbit said to the monkeys. The next day all the monkeys and all the coatis set off for the plantation and arrived there. "Eat, brothers, enjoy the food," said the rabbit to all of them. "All right," they said and they were happy. That day passed. "Are you all satisfied?" the rabbit asked them. "Yes, we're fine, brother." "So let's go. Each one of you can take something along," the rabbit said to them. "All right, uncle," they said and set off. They came to a plain. "We're going to rest," the rabbit said to them. They rested on the plain. The monkeys were playing with the coatis and didn't know that the rabbit was plotting against their lives. The rabbit said to them: "Bring two nets, brothers." "What are you saying uncle, are we going to play?" "I want you to make me two nets," the rabbit said to them. "Why?" they asked. "I'm going to weigh you, so we can see who weighs the most," said the rabbit. "All right," they said, and got into the nets. "All you monkeys, get in there, and all you coatis get in over there. Push your snouts out through the net so you'll be able to breathe and won't suffocate." "All right," the fools said. The rabbit closed up the nets and went to look for a club, saying: "When I come back you'll get out of the nets." But when the rabbit came back with the club he was ferocious, and struck them on the snout: "Now uncles, you're going to pay for the bananas you ate." He killed the uncles in the two nets. All those that were in the two nets died, and he skinned them all. He used an armadillo as a pack animal, the armadillo carrying the skins for him. He had collected them as the king had ordered, so that he would increase his height and give him back his cap. He returned and came before the king with fifteen loads of skins. The king didn't believe the rabbit was going to succeed, and so he didn't realize he was bringing all those skins. When he came before the king with the skins, the rabbit said: "See, father, I have brought the skins." The king was astonished. "Did you really go and get them?" he asked. "I don't believe you." "No father, they're here." "Let's see them," the king said. "Here they are, father." He took them out of his net one at a time and the king saw him take out the alligator's skin, the lion's skin, the big snake's skin, the monkeys' skins and the coatis' skins. "Oh," said the king," getting angry, "What do you want in exchange for these skins?" "I want you to make me taller and give me my cap back." "Oh," said the king, "what a shameless rabbit you are. In spite of everything you want to be big. You actually killed your own brothers. You actually killed them. You're so small. If you were larger, if I made you bigger, you'd kill all your brothers. Look here, you killed the lion, the alligator, and the snake, even though you're real little. "Well, now, you're going to have to forgive me, my son, but this is the punishment I've decreed: Bring me your ears so I can stretch them. You shameless thing, you already killed your brothers who are bigger than you. Now never come back here again. You're going once and for all, I'm just going to make your ears grow." Word of the Week: Knowledge Plant of the week: Lobelia © Copyrighted
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 9 - The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu This mid-18th century novel tells the story of two women romping through Europe in male disguise, breaking hearts, having narrow escapes, falling in love with each other, and ending up deciding to share the rest of their lives together. The 18th century prose is rather dense, but I’ve tried to pick selections that show why I find it fascinating. In this episode we talk about The historic context of the novel An overall plot summary Readings of selected excerpts that illustrate the romantic relationship between the two main characters More info The Lesbian Historic Motif Project lives here The full text of The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu is accessible primarily through academic libraries, but is available in electronic facsimile. WorldCat has the following listings for it This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here If you have questions or comments about the LHMP or these podcasts, send them to me here
En esta emisión de “Nuestro Patrimonio” tenemos el gusto de presentarles esta cápsula, dedicada a la obra “Acta de instalación de la Junta Nacional Instituyente conforme al decreto imperial de 31 del último octubre”. Ejemplar raro y difícil de conseguir, no está reportado siquiera en la base de datos bibliográfica más grande a nivel mundial: El WorldCat de OCLC.
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Feb. 1, 2015. The Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) is a major community challenge to provide an alternative to the deeply embedded MARC formats that will be more compatible with the Internet and linked data environment, and that offers new opportunities to leverage information. This update at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in Chicago, Ill., shares information on current developments as work continues on this significant effort. Speaker Biography: Beacher J.E. Wiggins is director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Sally Hart McCallum is chief of the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Paul Frank is cooperative cataloging program specialist in the Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Nate Trail is a digital projects coordinator in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Phil E. Schreur is head of the Metadata Department at the Stanford University Libraries. Speaker Biography: Ted Fons is executive director for data services and WorldCat quality management at OCLC, where he directs the strategy and execution of OCLC's data services portfolio. Speaker Biography: Eric Miller is president of Zepheira. He has been active in the development of semantic web and library standards as well as open source tools to support linked data technologies and library applications. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6647
http://wwwx.dowling.edu/library/new/GeneHorton.mp3 Stream in the player above or download audio. Gene Horton and friend. “You are on the Merrick Road, not far from Blue Point, the place that made the oyster famous. You look to the right and to the left, and, tacked to a tree, you see a sign and you try to read it, but the top of it has been shot off by a quail hunter. However, on the lower part you decipher, between the birdshot: ‘An inn what is an inn.' ” Welcome to Ye Anchorage Inn, as described in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1908. Your host is Capt. Bill Graham: huckster, artist, impresario, and roadside entrepreneur. He and his wife Molly ran the Inn from 1897 to 1920, creating a unique amalgam of tavern, hotel, hunting lodge, picnic ground, and Bohemian hot spot on the northwest corner of Montauk Highway and Kennedy Ave. Graham's clientele ranged from vaudevillians and silent movie stars to politicians, philosophers, and artists. Winsor McCay and Montgomery Flagg left sketches on the walls while early motorists made Ye Anchorage a must-see destination on their Long Island jaunts. Graham kept up a constant parade of promotional events, from his famous Sphinx statue (now in Bayport) to faux bullfights and horse raffles. He chronicled it all in his own personal magazine, The Log, full of stories, poems, artwork, and anything else he could think of. In this episode, Blue Point historian Gene Horton details the history of Will Graham, the Irish immigrant who became a part of the history of the Great South Bay. Drawing on his vast research and collection, Gene paints a vivid picture of the man and his times. Further Research: Books by Gene Horton (via WorldCat.org) Gene Horton on The History of Blue Point (Dowling Library Omnibus podcast #6. Skip to 11:06) Casa Basso/Theophilius Brouwer (via Westhampton Beach Historical Society) Elbert Hubbard: An American Original (PBS)
http://wwwx.dowling.edu/library/new/GeorgeMunkenbeck.mp3 His full name was about as long and storied as his career: Philippe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand. He was a Baron, a novelist, a painter, a gardener, a member of the Garde Lafayette (Fifty-fifth New York), a hero of Gettysburg, and summertime resident of Bayport. Historian George Munkenbeck (Co. H, 14th Brooklyn) recaps the fascinating life of this “soldier's soldier”, including his time in the Dakota Territory and his marriage to New York heiress Mary Mason-Jones. Major-General Regis de Trobriand Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-cwpb-06299 Major-General Trobriand is buried in Union Cemetery in Sayville, NY. Further Research Our Noble Blood: The Civil War Letters of General Regis Trobriand via WorldCat.org The Life and Memoirs of Comte Regis de Trobriand via Google Books George Munkenbeck on the military careers of the Ludlow family of Oakdale (Part 1 and Part 2)
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The News includes: Halvor Moorshead, founder of Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, and History Magazine, passed away on March 7, 2014. Moorshead Magazines has just published “Tracing Your Ancestors: Beginner's Guide,” a new title in their Tracing Your Ancestors series. It is available in the Internet Genealogy online bookstore at http://internet-genealogy.com/Books.htm. It is available in both print and PDF format. MyHeritage.com 's CEO, Gilad Japhet, undertook a personal search to identify and reunite artwork seized from Jews by the Nazis during WWII. His story is published in the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/arts/design/a-reporter-in-france-helps-to-return-art-taken-by-the-nazis.html MyHeritage.com has added a new feature to its site that allows you to add new profiles to your tree directly from historical records. MyHeritage.com has added 815 million U.S. Public Records to the MyHeritage SuperSearch. MyHeritage.com has also partnered with BillionGraves.com in a global initiative to digitally preserve the world's cemeteries. A new BillionGraves camera app for iPhone and iPad is available to help expedite the cemetery recording process. The Michigan Department of Education issued a press release announcing that the Library of Michigan is expanding its library hours to include opening from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM on the second Saturday of each month. FamilySearch International (online at FamilySearch.org) has announced collaborations with a number of commercial genealogical companies to partner in digitizing, indexing, and making available the records images they hold in one generation. FamilySearch 's catalog records have now been fully integrated into WorldCat. The American Society of Genealogists has announced that applications are being accepted for its annual ASG Scholar Award until September 30, 2014. Details can be found at http://fasg.org/awards/asg-scholar-award/. RootsMagic has released its new mobile app for the Android. Find A Grave , a subsidiary of Ancestry.com, has just released a new iOS mobile app for the iPhone and iPad at the Apple Store. The National Archives (U.K.) has spent almost 20 years digitizing the Manorial Documents Register and getting the MDR online. Melinda Haunton's TNA blog posting of 3 February 2014, titled “To the manor born?,” at http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/manor-born/ discusses the process and the how the documents can be used. HistoryGeo.com is a family history software subscription service that links old maps for your genealogical research. Learn more at http://s3.amazonaws.com/hg_media/press/HistoryGeo_Release_2014_Jan_28.pdf . Findmypast.com.au has announced the addition of 2.5 million records for the British in India. Findmypast.com.au has also announced over 640,000 convict records that are sure to be of interest and help to the estimated 20% of Australians who possess convict ancestry. A new national database, ForgottenAshes.com, has just been established to help reunite the cremains of individuals with their families. The Bureau for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) has just published its new standards manual, Genealogy Standards: Fiftieth Anniversary Issue. The Guys reviewed two new products from Genealogical Publishing Co.: The new Genealogy at a Glance reference titled Court Records by Wendy Bebout Elliott, PhD, FUGA. Finding Your Irish Ancestors in New York City by Joseph Buggy Listener email includes: Chris recommends the film negative and slide scanner by Wolverine, model F2D20. Arvind Nangia writes to tell us about the Pic Scanner app for iOS devices, that can scan up to three photographs simultaneously, saves them individually, allows them to be cropped, and they can be organized into digital albums. The Guys would love to hear your feedback. Matt shares a tip for listener Dianne who said in December that she needed help tracking down her grandfather's town of origin in the Alsace-Lorraine area. He suggests http://www.auswanderer-bw.de. We describe his instructions in the podcast.
Wikipedia seeks libraries who are willing to host a Wikipedia editor and give that editor access to their library materials in order to enhance the article citation process on Wikipedia. The cooperative's goal for this project is to make the library's e-collections available online via the WorldCat Knowledge Base, so that students and others on campus can see links in Wikipedia to full-text articles that the library makes available. This webinar was a follow on from a small discussion at ALA Midwinter, and Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt and Partner Programs Director Cindy Cunningham hope to broaden the conversation, help library staff find out more and how their institutions can play a role.
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In this webinar, Dr. Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will present his research on changing academic attention to world regions over the past 50 years, "attention" as measured by analyzing works published about each region of the world and collected in U.S. academic libraries for each year of publication since 1958. The patterns that emerge from this research will help to inform social scientists and educational policymakers about trends and possible gaps in scholarly attention to different regions of the world.
The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show
Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 158 August 2, 2013 NEWS: Attention Gmail Users:Google has revised the Gmail dashboard to now include tabs, separating your emails based on the type of content. Overall, I really like it, but I wanted to bring to your attention to the fact that your Genealogy Gems email newsletters will probably land in the Promotions tab, rather than your Primary tab. The problem with this is that we are used to focusing on what is in the in box in front of us, and I know I'm having a little difficulty retraining myself to check the other tabs. To ensure that you get your Genealogy Gems newsletter emails instantly, move the newsletter to your Primary tab. Click on the email to grab, drag and drop it on the Primary tab. From that point forward your newsletter emails should show up in your Primary tab, and you won't miss a thing! The Genealogy Gems Podcast App is now available for Windows 8 phone, tablets and desktop! Our app provides you the ability to stream or download free Genealogy Gems Podcast content, and even share your favorite episodes. Here's what you need to know: Phone / Tablet: First, for $2.99 from the Windows Phone Store. Once installed, a live tile will be available on the start menu. Opening the app will provide you a list of episodes available for the show. You can swipe left or right to move through favorites, downloaded episodes, and recently played episodes. Selected episodes will be highlighted with a check mark in the corner. Tapping on an episode you wish to listen to will open an in app player. Clicking on the three dots in the lower right hand corner will open up the menu shortcuts, giving easy access to marking episodes as favorites, downloading the episodes for offline listening, or sharing the episodes out with your friends. Desktop: ($2.99 from the Windows Desktop App Store.) Opening the app will provide you a list of episodes available for the show on the right with a player on the left and utilizes all the standards of the Windows 8 navigation. Selected episodes will be highlighted with a check mark in the corner. An episode can be bookmarked by marking it as a ‘favorite', and episodes can be downloaded so that they are available offline. When downloading a file, the status of the download will appear. Once an episode is favorited or downloaded, you can set the app to show only those favorite episodes or those downloaded files. You can also view a list of what episodes were recently played. The Genealogy Gems Podcast app is the one and only family history podcast app available, and was named a Must Have Apps for Hobbies by App Advice. Fold3 and Ancestry Trees Now when you discover an ancestor's record on Fold3.com, you can save it to your online tree at Ancestry.com. According to Fold3.com's press release: "Whenever you see a green 'Save to Ancestry' button above a document or on a Fold3 memorial page, you can link that document or page directly to someone's profile on Ancestry." "You'll be asked to log into your Ancestry.com account, and then you'll see a drop-down list of your trees. Locate the tree you wish to save the document to, begin typing the name of the person to whom the record should be attached, choose the correct name from the list that appears, and then press save." Watch this tutorial video to learn more and see how it's done: OCLC and FamilySearch Partnership The patron catalog on FamilySearch.org is renamed the FamilySearch Catalog. It is re-branding of the FHL Catalog. FamilySearch is planning to load their catalog records into WorldCat by the end of the year. In the case of our very larger records, these may be abbreviated. Patrons discovering their catalog records on WorldCat will be able to click through from WorldCat to the FamilySearch Catalog to view the complete record. WorldCat will eventually show holdings in selected regional family history centers as well. There are currently no plans to change circulation policy. Films can be ordered to FamilySearch Centers as before. Other materials are not circulated. However, they are scanning their books and have over 80,000 of them on line. There are links to them in the catalog. They can also be searched on Familysearch.org by selecting “Books”. PAF Retires If you've been doing family history research for a while, you probably have heard of (and maybe used) PAF: Personal Ancestral File software. Well, it's been hard at work for a long time--as a true pioneer in genealogy computing--and now it's retiring. It's not that your PAF software suddenly doesn't work. But as of today, July 15, 2013, you won't be able to get downloads, supports or upgrades from FamilySearch, which has made the software available since 1984. What does that mean for PAF users? The current version of PAF supports exports to GEDCOM files, still a universal file type for genealogy software. So while GEDCOMs still remain supported on other software and online family tree hosts, you'll be able to transfer the data from your tree. Those who want to continue to use FamilySearch products (like Family Tree) are advised by FamilySearch to switch to software that partners with FamilySearch: Ancestral Quest, Legacy Family Tree or RootsMagic. Learn more about the PAF discontinuation, what it means to you and supported software options at FamilySearch. And just to put in a plug for RootsMagic, a Genealogy Gems Podcast sponsor, RootsMagic 6 is the only software that is "share+ certified" by FamilySearch for use with Family Tree: the only software, as RootsMagic says, "certified to collaborate and share data and sources with FamilySearch Family Tree." If you're already using RootsMagic 4 or 5, you'll need to upgrade. Purchase RootsMagic 6 or order your upgrade here: And speaking of RootsMagic: Now you can find short training videos in addition to free full-length webinars on RootsMagic's new YouTube Channel, RootsMagicTV at If you're a RootsMagic user (or may be interested in becoming one), FamilySearch Family Tree or PAF user, you'll love these helpful tutorials. And let your voice be heard: They are even taking suggestions for topics to cover in future short videos, too! email them at . British Research The London Metropolitan Archives says that half the inquiries they receive are from family historians. This is likely due to their rich resources, click here to peruse the collection: Because there is such a strong genealogy interest in the LMA, they are making a huge effort to reach out to genealogists. They're all about educating us and sharing what's at LMA through their website, hands-on classes, remote research services and partnerships with data sites like Ancestry and FindMyPast. All this from a city archive! Check out this video they've made for family history researchers: Were Your Ancestors "Vicious" or in "Chronic Want"?London Poverty Maps Map It Out! There is a fantastic blog posting on Mad About Genealogy about the Booth Poverty Maps, which look like a riveting way to understand your ancestor's 1880s London neighborhood. According to blogger Linda Elliott, "Booth employed a team of social investigators who walked around the London streets often in the company of the local policeman and recorded what they saw and heard. The notebooks that they filled out can be viewed online and make for fascinating reading with amongst other findings they record what the policeman thought of each street and sometime each building and its inhabitants." Linda describes each category in greater detail in her blog post, along with everything a genealogist needs to know to use the maps MAILBOX: Response to the update on Ancestry from Allen: “I just listened to your most recent show and wanted to comment on the Ancestry.com search updates you discussed. I'm sure you have a direct line to them and wanted to offer some suggestions they might be able to use. First, and I think you may have mentioned this specifically, it would be nice if there were a way to exclude certain records from a search, either automatically or by selection. In particular, I am thinking that if I have a 1920 Census record attached to a person, there should be some way to exclude 1920 Census results from a search. Clearly that is not a record I need if that person already has one attached. Secondly, and related to the first, it would be nice if there were some "level of confidence" or other rating one could apply to a record match. That way I could attach a record to a person with no confidence but still have it reference a certain person, or with a moderate confidence or high confidence. This might also apply to relationships as well. I think this would go a long way toward solving the problem of people posting incorrect information on their tree and others copying it. The truth is, there is all kinds of information that we associate with our trees that we're not completely sure about but still feel reasonably confident about, but if there were some way to make that know, both to ourselves and others, it would help the situation. Ancestry.com could then incorporate these into my first search suggestion, so that records with a high confidence would trigger a filter to remove other similar records that would not apply. In any case, I love the show. Keep it up.” From Debbie Cook: My son sent me the interesting link below to a Flickr page that I thought might interest your subscribers. They are older photos superimposed on to the existing landscape at: UPDATE: Genealogy Gems Toolbar has been discontinued. Sarah wrote in to say: “I want to learn how to use Roots Magic 6 that goes to Trees” Lisa's Answer: You can watch the free RootsMagic class on "Using FamilySearch Family Tree with RootsMagic" on their website at From Sherry, a Premium Member from British Columbia: “I wrote to you several months back to tell you about my new family history blog, "My Descent into Descent", (), and how you inspired me to create it. Well, you've also inspired me to use my new iPad, which my husband gave me for Christmas, as a tool for my research, and now for blogging. Recently, my sister and I took our long-awaited "Family History Road Trip" to New England, and I took my iPad along to blog from the road! I also brought along a keyboard, and would blog in the morning, using the Blogger app, while my sister and niece were still asleep. It was fun to share our experiences almost as they were happening, as well as the crisp and clear photos I was taking with my iPad. As my sister was more interested in the stories from our mutual family tree and less in the research, we tried to plan our trip to include destinations which would interest us both. As I have discovered that we are Mayflower descendants, one of the places we visited was the Plymouth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As you may know, it includes a near authentic replica of the village of Plymouth circa 1627, and has actors portraying the roles of the people living there that year. They are well-versed in the stories of the pilgrims they are portraying, and stay in character while they are conversing with you. I was hoping I might run into an actor playing one of our ancestors, but I couldn't believe our luck! Of the handful of actors we met, two were portraying our ancestors, Hester Cooke and Richard Warren! Who actually gets to talk to their long departed ancestors on a family history road trip? Thank you so much for the many ways you inspire and inform us all. I would very much like to recommend to your listeners that they consider blogging their family history. Since I started my blog in November, I have had over 4,000 hits, when I only expected to receive a few. Most excitingly, I had always wanted to connect with the descendants of my great grand aunt Lily. After telling the story of that part of the family in depth over several blog posts, I waited for several months before I heard anything. As it turned out, some of her descendants were curious about their family history, and while Googling some of the names, my blog popped up! They could not believe their good fortune in finding out so much about their tree all at once! I plan to visit them this coming week. They are excited to meet me and my husband, and have a family Bible to show me.” Leigh has a new genealogy blog! “I just wanted to let you know that I've been listening to your old Podcasts and working my way up to the present. I'm on Episode 80 now, and I'm learning so much from you. It has never occurred to me to start a blog, but after listening to your advice on the subject, I finally decided to give it a whirl. I mentioned you and your Genealogy Gems podcast in the post and linked to your page. I've heard you say that you appreciated that on previous podcasts, so I thought it would be okay. If you'd like, you can view the blog at . I love your podcasts, and once I'm caught up, I'm planning to become a Premium member. Thanks for pushing me out of my comfort zone!" Winnie the Pooh Quote: “You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes.” Thank you to our sponsor RootsMagic.com GEM: Behind the Scenes of the TV series Who Do You Think You Are? with Producer Allie Orton It was a sad day when NBC cancelled Who Do You Think You Are? here in the U.S., but genealogists are now drying their eyes and grabbing their popcorn because it's returning to TV this month. The TLC channel has picked up Who Do You Think You? and the first episode featuring singer Kelly Clarkson premieres on July 23, 2013. Here to tell us all about it is Producer and Research Manager for the series Allie Orton. She's a graduate of the University of Southern California, and began work as a researcher on the first U.S. season of "Who Do You Think You Are?" back in 2008. In her current role she oversees research development, coordinates communication between Ancestry.com and the research staff, and shepherds these compelling stories to completion! In this interview Allie shares: How she got involved in the show The impact of the cancellation How celebs are selected The research team makeup The art of storytelling Kelly Clarkson episode Stand out moments If it is getting any easier to produce the show Her favorite episode (hint: it's this season) Her favorite person (OK, people!) to work with How she'll be spending her time during the premiere What you can expect to see this season Book referred to: Exclusive for Premium Members: Allie's Advice for Genealogists in Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast Episode 100 STAY IN TOUCH: You can stay in touch with me all month long by subscribing to the free Genealogy Gems Newsletter right on the homepage of my website And here's a thought to ponder until we meet here again: People don't care what you know until they know that you care
WorldCat is the largest online catalog in the world, accessing the collections of more than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. Using the catalog, a subject search of particular sports turns up the following tally of book titles in the world’s libraries: Boxing: 5164, Hockey: 7083, Cricket: 10,881, Horse... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
WorldCat is the largest online catalog in the world, accessing the collections of more than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. Using the catalog, a subject search of particular sports turns up the following tally of book titles in the world’s libraries: Boxing: 5164, Hockey: 7083, Cricket: 10,881, Horse Racing: 11,933, Basketball: 12,875, Golf: 16,660, Football: 18,592, Soccer: 19,933, Baseball: 31,206 That’s a lot of baseball books. Fortunately, Ron Kaplan has cut that number down to something a bit more manageable in 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die (University of Nebraska Press, 2013). As host of the Baseball Bookshelf blog and bibliography editor of the Society for American Baseball Research, Ron has read a few thousand books on the sport, give or take a couple hundred. His book doesn’t rank them. As he explains in the interview, it was hard enough to pare down his list from 1001 to 501. Instead, he offers an annotated guide, with books grouped by subject. There are instructional books and novels, data-based analyses and tributes to ballparks, biographies of the great players and memoirs of ordinary fans. Ron includes the familiar classics, like Mark Harris’ Bang the Drum Slowly and Jim Bouton’s Ball Four, and makes the case for books that deserve the status of a classic, such as Michael Bishop’s novel Brittle Innings. And Ron reveals a trove of older, overlooked gems: a 1915 instructional manual for college players, Bob Wood’s 1988 guide to ballpark food, and a compilation of Charles Schulz’s baseball-themed Peanuts comics (more than 600 strips when the book was published in 1977). Ron’s expert guide will help in your choices of summer baseball reading. Indeed, you’ll be eager to start on your baseball list after putting down Ron’s book. That is, if you can put it down. Ron’s thoughtful choice of titles and his insightful summaries of the selections make this not only a useful introduction to the baseball library but also a worthy–and enjoyable–addition to its shelves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
WorldCat is the largest online catalog in the world, accessing the collections of more than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. Using the catalog, a subject search of particular sports turns up the following tally of book titles in the world’s libraries: Boxing: 5164, Hockey: 7083, Cricket: 10,881, Horse Racing: 11,933, Basketball: 12,875, Golf: 16,660, Football: 18,592, Soccer: 19,933, Baseball: 31,206 That’s a lot of baseball books. Fortunately, Ron Kaplan has cut that number down to something a bit more manageable in 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die (University of Nebraska Press, 2013). As host of the Baseball Bookshelf blog and bibliography editor of the Society for American Baseball Research, Ron has read a few thousand books on the sport, give or take a couple hundred. His book doesn’t rank them. As he explains in the interview, it was hard enough to pare down his list from 1001 to 501. Instead, he offers an annotated guide, with books grouped by subject. There are instructional books and novels, data-based analyses and tributes to ballparks, biographies of the great players and memoirs of ordinary fans. Ron includes the familiar classics, like Mark Harris’ Bang the Drum Slowly and Jim Bouton’s Ball Four, and makes the case for books that deserve the status of a classic, such as Michael Bishop’s novel Brittle Innings. And Ron reveals a trove of older, overlooked gems: a 1915 instructional manual for college players, Bob Wood’s 1988 guide to ballpark food, and a compilation of Charles Schulz’s baseball-themed Peanuts comics (more than 600 strips when the book was published in 1977). Ron’s expert guide will help in your choices of summer baseball reading. Indeed, you’ll be eager to start on your baseball list after putting down Ron’s book. That is, if you can put it down. Ron’s thoughtful choice of titles and his insightful summaries of the selections make this not only a useful introduction to the baseball library but also a worthy–and enjoyable–addition to its shelves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
WorldCat is the largest online catalog in the world, accessing the collections of more than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. Using the catalog, a subject search of particular sports turns up the following tally of book titles in the world’s libraries: Boxing: 5164, Hockey: 7083, Cricket: 10,881, Horse Racing: 11,933, Basketball: 12,875, Golf: 16,660, Football: 18,592, Soccer: 19,933, Baseball: 31,206 That’s a lot of baseball books. Fortunately, Ron Kaplan has cut that number down to something a bit more manageable in 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die (University of Nebraska Press, 2013). As host of the Baseball Bookshelf blog and bibliography editor of the Society for American Baseball Research, Ron has read a few thousand books on the sport, give or take a couple hundred. His book doesn’t rank them. As he explains in the interview, it was hard enough to pare down his list from 1001 to 501. Instead, he offers an annotated guide, with books grouped by subject. There are instructional books and novels, data-based analyses and tributes to ballparks, biographies of the great players and memoirs of ordinary fans. Ron includes the familiar classics, like Mark Harris’ Bang the Drum Slowly and Jim Bouton’s Ball Four, and makes the case for books that deserve the status of a classic, such as Michael Bishop’s novel Brittle Innings. And Ron reveals a trove of older, overlooked gems: a 1915 instructional manual for college players, Bob Wood’s 1988 guide to ballpark food, and a compilation of Charles Schulz’s baseball-themed Peanuts comics (more than 600 strips when the book was published in 1977). Ron’s expert guide will help in your choices of summer baseball reading. Indeed, you’ll be eager to start on your baseball list after putting down Ron’s book. That is, if you can put it down. Ron’s thoughtful choice of titles and his insightful summaries of the selections make this not only a useful introduction to the baseball library but also a worthy–and enjoyable–addition to its shelves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show
Travel back to #RootsTech - You'll hear 10 Top Tips for How to Bust Through Your Genealogy Brick Wall, and get the scoop on the new partnership between OCLC / WorldCat and FamilySearch. From Lisa: If you didn't get a chance to attend a genealogy event yet this year, don't fret, because in today's episode while I get back to my laundry and packing to travel to Tennessee to present a genealogy seminar, you are going to hear two recordings we did at RootsTech. First up is Jay Jordon, President of which you may know as the WorldCat. We got a chance to sit down at to chat about their new partnership with familysearch which will bring the familysearch catalogue to . Watch the Video: Then you're going to hear 10 Top Tips for How to Bust Through Your Genealogy Brick Wall – The winner of the free RootsTech registration that we gave away on the Sarah Stout, got an opportunity to sit down with me and Canadian Genealogy Guru to discuss her brick wall () which spanned the Canadian and US border. But the locations weren't really the important thing here. The 10 Tips that Dave dished up can really be used by every family historian to achieve genealogy success. Watch the Video: Dave Obee's Top 10 Tips: 1. Create a Timeline – “plot her life…it's easier to see the holes.” 2. Understand Geography – “plot movements” 3. Find Every Possible Record 4. Understand How Records Were Created 5. Read Every Local Story in Newspapers at that Time 6. Tap into Local Knowledge – “Locals know more” (historical and genealogical societies) 7. Go There if You Can in Person 8. Look for Negative Proof 9. Collaborate with Other Researchers 10. Be Diligent About Proof Resources Mentioned in the video: by Lisa Louise Cooke by Lisa Louise Cooke Lisa's Events: to see where Lisa will be presenting next to book Lisa for your next event
Drew, an official RootsTech 2013 blogger, reminds listeners that Early Bird Registration for RootsTech 2013 ends on February 15th. Drew invites our listeners to email us at genealogyguys@gmail.com with suggestions for interviews while he's at RootsTech 2013. Other news includes: RootsMagic announces a free viewer app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. BillionGraves has been acquired by Otter Creek Holdings. Findmypast.com adds 21 million new Irish birth, marriage, and death records. The "Find My Past" TV show from the UK, seasons 1 and 2, is available for viewing online at http://www.findmypast.com/articles/find-my-past-tv/series-two. Ancestry.com has updated the 1850 and 1940 U.S. federal censuses online. The Federation of Genealogical Societies has launched a new blog for the War of 1812 fundraising at http://www.preservethepensions.org/blog/. MyHeritage has launched a special campaign offering deep discounts on DNA tests through Family Tree DNA. They also have released a new version of the free MyHeritage app that allows you to "edit on the go." The Suzanne Winsor Freeman Grant Committee has announced that applications are being accepted for the 2013 student grant. Contact Denise Levenick at swfgrant@gmail.com for more information. Saving Memories Forever announces the first community outreach by starting a fundraising campaign on February 11, 2013, on behalf of the American Widows Project. OCLC and FamilySearch have announced a combination of resources. FamilySearch's catalog will be incorporated into OCLC's WorldCat and WorldCat will be linked into the FamilySearch catalog. Drew discusses the FamilySearch announcements of new records added to their site. Family Chartmasters has announced announced a new book, Zap the Grandma Gap: Connect with Your Family by Connecting Them to Their Family History. The book is available at https://zapthegrandmagap.com. Drew suggests using Blogtrottr to notify you when there's a new episode of the podcast. Add the RSS address and an email will be sent to your mailbox. Listener email includes: George provides more information about locating Boer War records to Jane, a follow-up to the discussion on episode #246. Michelle asks for advice about obtaining Railroad Retirement Board records. Rich identified an interesting site, WhatWasThere at http://www.whatwasthere.com. Ann recommends Google Picasa for organizing digital photographs. John makes multiple copies of the same digital photo and stores a copy with each person's record. George has bought a new CanoScan scanner and is busy digitizing all his documents and photographs.
Welcome to my bedroom closet. One hundred thirty-seven years ago, my Mexican great-grandfather, Emigdio Medina, composed a schottische, entitled El Tecolote. The Owl. I discovered the sheet music in an online library listing in 2010. A long-forgotten song? Might no one have heard the piece for over 100 years? I asked my dear sister-in-law, Martha, to play El Tecolote on her piano for me to record. She suffers from Alzheimer's, but has not forgotten her music. Lost music. Lost memory. Together both were found, at least for a while. Ah, the magic and harmony of two musician's talents, even if one has left this world and the other slowly slips away. For those who may be interested, the WorldCat listing for the sheet music is as follows: http://www.worldcat.org/title/tecolote-the-owl-schottische/oclc/146589970&referer=brief_results "The Overland Monthly," Vol. 15, August, 1875, No. 2, page 208, listed "El Tecolote" as new music received. Please enjoy this bit of Mexican culture from yesteryear's San Francisco. The song was played and recorded totally impromptu. Please forgive the occasional faltering and errors. Warm Wishes, Laurel Anne Hill (http://www.laurelannehill.com)
In this webinar, OCLC Research Post-Doctoral Researcher Timothy J. Dickey provides an overview of an OCLC Research data mining project that looked at books as expressions of global cultural diversity to provide a global overview of the publishing arts. In this project, researchers considered the overall annual publishing for every country of the world, the libraries that collect and even import a country's works, the "foreign" monographs their libraries import, and the proportion of publications in various official and native languages. These efforts produced a rich data portrait of the global literary arts (as reflected library records in the WorldCat database), with emphasis on cultural literary heritage by country and region and includes a wealth of case studies in single countries' practices in both literary publishing and the preservation of their literary heritage.
The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show
THANK YOU to all the genealogy bloggers who got the word out about the new Genealogy Gems iPhone app which is now available in the : Kimberly Powell of the Miriam Robbins Midkiff of Schelly Dardashti of the Amy Coffin of the Lisa has gotten great feedback from those of you who have already downloaded the . Apple Announces the iPad at the BBC Thank You: Ancestry Magazine Closes It's Doors Ancestry Magazine will be publishing it's last issue in March of 2010. Go to and just type Ancestry in the search box to see past issues online. MAILBOX: Question from member Teri : Are there 3 ring binder dividers large enough to use with sheet protectors? Lisa suggests: , 5-Tab Set Judy in Ocala requested photos of Lisa's family history wall display describe in Rebecca Pittman of Chicago asks for leads on researching ancestors who served as U.S. census enumerators. “Do you have any recommendations for locating records about his role as a Census Enumerator? I'm sure there would've been an application form, payroll information, etc. for Census Enumerators. I searched Worldcat for any books on the subject and the National Archives for records and have not had any luck.” Bill Maury, Chief of History at the U.S. Census Bureau says that All of the records that are available are at the National Archives in Record Group 29…the records are partial at best but some are both extensive and informative. features my interview with Bill Maury Histories of Enumeration Procedures for Each Census: â in 1930 Records of the Bureau of the Census (Tip: Search the page for “Personnel”) Mary Bowden wrote in to say she has started her own genealogy blog. “Thanks, I loved the live podcast!” Podcast listener Marie has also Gordon Churchill asks for recommendations for a way to publish a “book of stories and events that I have been able to find, together with the dates and places, so that grandchildren and others who come to it will find something that has some life in it, not just historical records.” Lisa suggests Kodak Gallery for more on publishing a family history book with Kodak Gallery This Podcast is sponsored by: Tell them you heard about Rootsmagic on the Genealogy Gems Podcast! GEM: Interview with Irene Johnson Irene's Tip: Do your homework before you visit the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Do Your Homework Before You Come: - Scour the online catalog - Decide what you need - Ask for help when you visit Lisa's Tip – print out the items you want from the catalogue and prioritize them. Determine which items are available only in Salt Lake City. Watch Irene in the The Library is divided up into sections: B2 - The British Collection B1 - The International Floor – “the only place where you will find all the Swedish records under one roof!” (they are scattered amongst the various archives across Sweden) The Vault – There are many films that are not located in the library but rather in the granite vault. Request ahead of time, or as soon as you arrive. to Index The Main/ 1st Floor – Computers and Family Histories
We'll discuss how to use, and why we should or shouldn't use in libraries Twitter, Facebook, Martindale-Hubbell Connect, WorldCat.org, Plurk, and all the other social media tools.
The Genealogy Gems Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke - Your Family History Show
Published Oct 20, 2008 Lisa with her prized pumpkin by WHRO FM radio: Stories based on ghostly legends and lore of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Thanks to my friend Michelle Gabriele-Harrell producer off the Halloween Haunts podcast. In iTunes: and the in iTunes iGoogle UpdateiGoogle has been discontinued. WorldCat: I also wrote a blog recently called and I wanted to mention that there is going to be a Free seminar Oct 28 at 2PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific online sponsored by WorldCat so I'll have a link to that posting so you can read all about it. MAILBOX: Kerry Steward called in about some comments I made on Genealogy Gems podcast Episode #40. Here are two articles about Henrietta Pruisner Tesch and Katherine Tesch Rugg's families. and GEM: Profile America - Oct. 13 Navy Month "Hit hard, hit fast, hit often" Admiral "Bull" Halsey (above) GEM: Interview with Yvette Arts, Director of Content Partnerships at World Vital Records Update: World Vital Records is now part of MyHeritage.com Strategies for getting the most out of World Vital Records from Yvette Arts: First-time users/browsing: Perform a Basic Search. You'll get the largest search results by just searching by last name. Look over the results to narrow down all the possibilities. Try adding first name next. Some combinations of first and last names are more difficult to find exact matches for than others (e.g., John Smith). But if you have an unusual name like Jared Quackenbush the search will only return a few results. Next, if you know the location enter a full state name in the Place search. There are some results in their databases, such as for Google Books, that may not come up via the geographic. Don't forget to try alternative spelling for a surname. Additional Search Tips: Entering a date is best when you only give a year. If you already know a lot about an ancestor and now want to know specific information, try the Advanced Search. Use broad search terms, not an exact year of birth. Although you may know this information, mistakes may have been made in a document, or a first name may be abbreviated (e.g., Geo* is a good search term for George or J* may bring up a John that is otherwise listed as Jn). Excluding a source from a search because you have exact knowledge about an ancestor could lead to less accurate search results. Members Only Podcast Episodes & Videos GEM: Profile America - Oct 24 is the anniversary of Chips the U.S. War Dog being awared the Distinguished Service Medal Interview with Mary Ann Whitley who's father Herson Lamont Whitley served with Chips the US War Dog by Mary Ann Whitley at the U.S. War Dogs Website GEM: - In today's MacGenealogist Minute with Ben Sayer, Ben's continues his reviews of Genealogy software for the Macintosh computer with a review of . GEM: Name That Tune - I need your help. Several months ago I received a reel to reel tape that was recorded by my husband's Grandfather and Grandmother Cooke. I'm going to play one song on each episode in the hopes that one of you dear listener's will recognize the tune and with the name. Or leave a voice mail at 925-272-4021. Thanks! Support the Show: With the holidays approaching thereâs a wonderful way for you to do your online shopping while supporting this show. By accessing websites like Amazon.com through the links on the and through the website, Amazon gives The Genealogy Gems Podcast credit for your purchases. It doesn't cost you anything more, but by using the links on our website, you do a lot to help keep the free Genealogy Gems Podcast coming. Thank you! Visit the the where you can watch lots of great genealogy themed videos. Join the Catch up on what's going on in the world of genealogy at
In this webinar, Merrilee Proffitt and Bill Carney discuss the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry.
Coffee House to Go episode #32Coffee House to Go is a Podcast for writers and the Small Press community.Opening music excerpt by Uma Floresta, "Almost Everything."Your Host:LB Sedlacek - The Poetry Market E-zine and lbsedlacek.comShow Topics:> Thomas M. Disch> Thomas M. Disch - Obit> "The Brave Little Toaster" by Thomas M. Disch (WorldCat) (Wikipedia)> Philip K. Dick> "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" Movie> LA Times to Fold Standalone Book Review> LB's Assume Nothing Press Writing TipLinks to Know:> LB on TwitterClosing music excerpt by Simpatico, "Santa Claudia"Subscribe to our Podcast Feed orDownload the show here! Play Now: CHTG-032-100708 (5'36 2.6mb 64kbps)
In this webinar, Roy Tennant and Bruce Washburn demonstrate how to usethe WorldCat Search API.
In this webinar, Constance Malpas gives an update on recent research on the distribution and content characterization of unique print books represented in the WorldCat database.
George announces a new version of Pocket Genealogist software and a list of upcoming conferences. George and Drew discuss listeners' email about: "The Portal to Texas History" at texashistory.unt.edu/about/ which contains digitized books, histories, and photos of Texas; the use of WorldCat (www.worldcat.org) and Google Books (books.google.com) to locate books containing information on a French village; and strategies for getting around "brick walls." The Guys also discuss the new release of GenSmarts, Version 2.0, a software tool that provides research suggestions and tools to organize your genealogy database contents.
Announcements include Footnote.com's Revolutionary War documents, the WeRelate.org wiki social networking site, the June 8-10 Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree in Burbank (www.scgsgenealogy.com/jamboree.htm), the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City's study of genealogy to understand heart disease, and the Genealogy Concierge service of the Edinburgh Sheraton Grand Hotel and Spa. Mailbag brings questions and comments about backing up USB flash drives, what to call former spouses of parents, how to cite items found in WorldCat, and how to create personalized maps using Google's My Maps feature. George and Drew discuss database search strategies for atypical surnames and the use of reference resources (such as dictionaries) available in personal libraries and public libraries.
George and Drew discuss the transliteration of documents (such as those in Latin), and tips for translating from one language to another. Drew also leads a discussion about using WorldCat to locate local newspapers, partially inspired by a listener's suggestion for using the U.S. Newspaper Program (www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html). Mailbag and news includes Roots Television's (www.rootstelevision.com) new RootsTube channel, the Virginia Freedmen Extraction and Indexing Project (blackhistorymuseum.org/bureau), the Indiana Marriage Indexing Project (www.indgensoc.org/indexing.html), the storage of genealogy files online, the new Web 2.0-style LivingGenealogy.com site, and the upcoming state conference in Ohio (www.ogs.org).
Topics include new sorting features of WorldCat (worldcat.org), and a discussion of folksonomies, tagging, and metadata, especially as it applies to photographs on such sites as Flickr (www.flickr.com). News and listener mailbag includes the use of vitalrec.com to learn more about when states began recording vital records, a Quaker genealogy conference (April 27th thru April 29th in Waynesville, Ohio - www.mlcook.lib.oh.us provides more information), photographic restoration (www.genealogy.com/10_restr.html), tips on using digital cameras to record documents, and a reminder of several upcoming genealogy cruises.
Just before the Genealogy Guys head off for the FGS Conference in Boston, Drew announces the Ebenezer, GA Heritage Day Festival on Labor Day for Salzburgers (www.georgiasalzburgers.com) and the University of Washington Extension Program's Genealogy and Family History Certificate (www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/gfh/gfh_mtg.asp), and shares listener tips regarding both WorldCat and state archives. George and Drew outline what topics they'll be addressing at the FGS Conference, and the Guys will also be at the Lee County Genealogical Society in Ft. Myers, Florida on September 20 to produce a "live" podcast. George's "Along Those Lines" column will start being seen on September 7th in the Signal Hill Tribune in Signal Hill, California (thanks to a podcast listener). Drew shares his recent experience participating in a Skypecast moderated by Dick Eastman, both of the Guys talk in detail about next year's research trip to London (e-mail classes@ahaseminars.com for more info), and a listener question about a gas station leads to a discussion about locating information about businesses.
As the days count down toward the Federation of Genealogical Society's upcoming Boston conference, Drew and George announce that Paul Milner is a new co-leader for the National Genealogical Society's Britain and Ireland Forum (www.ngsgenealogy.org/forums/britainirelandforum.cfm), and that NGS is sponsoring a January 2007 research trip to Salt Lake City (www.ngsgenealogy.org/edutripsaltlake.cfm). Following up on last week's episode regarding boxer Bob Fitzsimmons, a listener reminds the Guys about Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com). George announces Liz Kerstens' new e-magazine Digital Genealogist (www.digitalgenealogist.com). After George discusses tips for deciphering old documents (handwriting, abbreviations, and language), Drew alerts listeners to upcoming changes for RootsWeb mailing lists (lists.rootsweb.com) and to a new way to access the WorldCat database (worldcat.org). George ends the episode by sharing ways to keep track of what census columns mean, using the census charts at Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/census.aspx).
George announces the upcoming annual conference of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (www.bifhsgo.ca) and makes a correction about a date for Canadian censuses in a previous podcast, and Drew mentions a handy website for viewing Canadian boundary changes over time (atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/historical/territorialevolution). Continuing along a Canadian theme, Drew interviews Louise St. Denis of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies (www.genealogicalstudies.com), a Canadian-based educational institution providing distance education to genealogists all over the world. George shares some websites for Moravian researchers, including www.enter.net/~smschlack, www.moravianarchives.org, and www.moravianchurcharchives.org. Drew announces the new WorldCat.org site for searching library records. And George interviews Drew about the upcoming FGS conference in Boston (www.fgs.org).
George recommends the new magazine "Internet Genealogy" (www.internet-genealogy.com). George and Drew discuss using deeds as a resource. Finally, Drew and George talk about using the Library of Congress catalog (catalog.loc.gov) and the WorldCat database to locate books about your family.
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