Monthly Archives: June 2010

via hindustantimes.com Mark Twain’s autobiography is finally to be published later this year, and a section reveals his scandalous relationship with a woman who became his secretary after his wife died. The writer, who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, … Continue reading →

Street car conductor in Seattle not allowing passengers aboard without a mask. 1918. Mass transit systems, with crowds of people in close quarters, were fertile venues for the spread of disease. In Seattle, public health officials required passengers and employees … Continue reading →

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/railway.html#Text via indiana.edu The Railway Children (1906): a machine-readable transcription Nesbit, E. (Edith) (1858-1924) Go to Start of Text Return to the Victorian Women Writers Project Library Scanned, encoded and edited by Perry Willett TEI formatted filesize uncompressed: approx. 413 … Continue reading →

via guardian.co.uk Swinging times … Tarzan the Ape Man, with Maureen O’Sullivan, Cheeta and Johnny Weissmuller. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features Jane has an iPod and Tarzan is facing up to environmental catastrophe: following literary excursions into the childhoods of James … Continue reading →

via foreignpolicy.com BANGLADESH Score: 96.1 Bangladesh has improved significantly on the index over the last three years, from its high-water mark at No. 12 in the index to 24th today. Democracy was restored to the country in 2008 after the … Continue reading →

via thomashawk.com The fully armed Russian warship Varyag left San Francisco earlier this morning. The warship was the first Russian surface warship to visit San Francisco in 147 years and was sent here in the “spirit of friendship,” according to … Continue reading →

Mike McHugh fell in love with the Perdido Key, Florida, back in 2000 because it reminded him of his native Australia’s beaches and relaxed, informal way of life.   “My work, when I travel, is highly stressful and this is just … Continue reading →

Sea turtle eggs being moved to Atlantic A sea turtle egg relocation project has been started in hopes of keeping hatchlings out of the oil that’s spreading through Gulf of Mexico. Henry Cabbage of the  Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation … Continue reading →

via telegraph.co.uk Felipe Soriano, from the series Last of the Zapatistas Photo: JON GUIDO BERTELLI In the late 1990s I spent the greater part of two years living in Mexico, searching for the last surviving Zapatista fighters – the veterans … Continue reading →

via independent.co.uk The Koh-i-Noor diamond, whose name means “Mountain of Light”, had been the prize of Indian rulers from the Mughals to the Persian until it was “presented” to Queen Victoria in 1849 by the son of the Maharaja of … Continue reading →