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Smith] [See also #1938, a different translation] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/5/17352 ] [Files: 17352.txt; 17352-8.txt; 17352-h.htm; ] The Rivals of Acadia, by Harriet Vaughan Cheney 17351 [Subtitle: An Old Story of the New World] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/5/17351 ] [Files: 17351.txt; 17351-8.txt; 17351-h.htm] The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, by Bertrand Russell 17350 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/5/17350 ] [Files: 17350.txt; 17350-8.txt; 17350-h.htm] Frank Among The Rancheros, by Harry Castlemon 17349 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/4/17349 ] [Files: 17349.txt; 17349-8.txt; 17349-h.htm] Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Vol. 17 New Series, No. 432, Apr 10, 1852 17348 [Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/4/17348 ] [Files: 17348.txt; 17348-8.txt; 17348-h.htm] Sonnets, and Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650), by Swinburne 17347 [Subtitle: Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol V. 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Lowenheim] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/4/17342 ] [Files: 17342.txt; 17342-8.txt; 17342-h.htm; ] Su nico hijo, by Leopoldo Alas [AKA: Clarin] 17341 [INDEXERS PLEASE NOTE the following request from the preparer of this] [file: This author had a pen-name of Clarn. It would be helpful if that] [could appear next to his name in the index, with possibly a] [cross-reference from Clarin to Alas. 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Elberts] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/3/17337 ] [Files: 17337-8.txt; 17337-h.htm] Plus-Que-Parfait, by Cyriel Buysse 17336 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/3/17336 ] [Files: 17336-8.txt] Aventures du capitaine Corcoran, II, by Alfred Assollant 17335 [Title: Aventures merveilleuses mais authentiques du capitaine Corcoran] [Subtitle: Deuxime partie] [Illustrator: A. De Neuville] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/3/17335 ] [Files: 17335-8.txt; 17335-h.htm] Initiative Psychic Energy, by Warren Hilton 17334 [Subtitle: Being the Sixth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/3/17334 ] [Files: 17334.txt; 17334-8.txt; 17334-h.htm] Wilt Thou Torchy, by Sewell Ford 17333 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/3/17333 ] [Files: 17333.txt; 17333-8.txt; 17333-h.htm] History Of Egypt From 330 B.C., Volume 12 (of 12), by S. Rappoport 17332 [Title: History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Vol. 12 (of 12)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/3/17332 ] [Files: 17332.txt; 17332-8.txt; 17332-h.htm] History Of Egypt From 330 B.C., Volume 11 (of 12), by S. Rappoport 17331 [Title: History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/3/17331 ] [Files: 17331.txt; 17331-8.txt; 17331-h.htm] History Of Egypt From 330 B.C.,Volume 10 (of 12), by S. Rappoport 17330 [Title: History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/3/17330 ] [Files: 17330.txt; 17330-8.txt; 17330-h.htm] History Of Egypt, Volume 9 (of 12), by G. Maspero 17329 [Title: History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12)] [Editor: A.H. Sayce] [Translator: M.L. McClure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/2/17329 ] [Files: 17329.txt; 17329-8.txt; 17329-h.htm] History Of Egypt, Volume 8 (of 12), by G. Maspero 17328 [Title: History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12)] [Editor: A.H. Sayce] [Translator: M.L. McClure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/2/17328 ] [Files: 17328.txt; 17328-8.txt; 17328-h.htm] History Of Egypt, Volume 7 (of 12), by G. Maspero 17327 [Title: History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12)] [Editor: A.H. Sayce] [Translator: M.L. McClure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/2/17327 ] [Files: 17327.txt; 17327-8.txt; 17327-h.htm] History Of Egypt, Volume 6 (of 12), by G. Maspero 17326 [Title: History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)] [Editor: A.H. Sayce] [Translator: M.L. McClure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/2/17326 ] [Files: 17326.txt; 17326-8.txt; 17326-h.htm] History Of Egypt, Volume 5 (of 12), by G. Maspero 17325 [Title: History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12)] [Editor: A.H. Sayce] [Translator: M.L. McClure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/2/17325 ] [Files: 17325.txt; 17325-8.txt; 17325-h.htm] History Of Egypt, Volume 4 (of 12), by G. Maspero 17324 [Title: History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12)] [Editor: A.H. Sayce] [Translator: M.L. McClure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/2/17324 ] [Files: 17324.txt; 17324-8.txt; 17324-h.htm] History Of Egypt, Volume 3 (of 12), by G. Maspero 17323 [Title: History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12)] [Editor: A.H. Sayce] [Translator: M.L. McClure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/2/17323 ] [Files: 17323.txt; 17323-8.txt; 17323-h.htm] History Of Egypt, Volume 2 (of 12), by G. Maspero 17322 [Title: History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12)] [Editor: A.H. Sayce] [Translator: M.L. McClure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/2/17322 ] [Files: 17322.txt; 17322-8.txt; 17322-h.htm] History of Egypt, Volume 1 (of 12), by L.W. King and H.R. 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Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] [I think this is only the first or second time we ever included ALL the entries from a single edition of Edupage. From here:] U.S. HOUSE REQUIRES HDTV CONVERSION IN 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation requiring complete conversion to HDTV broadcasting in early 2009. The bill included funding to aid consumers with analog TV sets who watch free TV stations to purchase converter boxes. Satellite and cable TV consumers would not be affected by the digital switch. The requirements and funding were part of a larger deficit-cutting bill still to be addressed by the Senate. A major goal of the digital TV requirement is to gain radio spectrum for emergency use. [i.e. Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc?] Yahoo, 19 December 2005 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051219/ap_on_hi_te/congress_digital_tv NIST SETS DATA SPECS FOR BIOMETRIC ID CARDS The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established and published biometric data specifications, required for federal ID cards slated for implementation in October 2006. The new specs cover fingerprints and facial image recognition. Comments on the draft specs will be accepted until January 13, 2006. [Are they hoping no one will be paying attention over the holidays?] Federal Computer Week, 16 December 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article91747-12-16-05-Web MEETING COMPLIANCE LAWS RAISES IT COSTS According to a recent Gartner study, laws on corporate governance and compliance, such as the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act, force businesses to spend more on information technology. The report predicts increases in IT budgets from 10 to 15 percent in 2006, up from roughly 5 percent in 2004. The survey included 326 audit, finance, and IT professionals in North America and Western Europe. Gartner recommended solutions that can support multiple regulations across a business to maximize effectiveness on spending for compliance. [Businesses are being forced to pay extra so the above listed agencies can spy on them?] ZDNet, 15 December 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5996670.html EXPERT-EDITED ALTERNATIVE TO WIKIPEDIA Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, plans to launch a project called Digital Universe that will take advantage of public input for its content but rely on acknowledged experts to edit the submissions. Material will be free, with copyrighted material available to subscribers for a fee. A number of institutions have already signed up for the project, including the American Museum of Natural History and the National Council for Science and the Environment. Sanger has raised $10 million in start-up funding. [Is the timing here just a coincidence? More on Wikipedia below.] The Register, 19 December 2005 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/19/sanger_onlinepedia_with_experts/ GOOGLE BUYS PART OF AOL Google has agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in America Online (AOL) from parent company Time Warner for $1 billion cash. The goal is dominance in the online advertising market. Microsoft competed with Google for the partnership agreement, which must still be approved by the Time Warner board. As part of the deal, Google will give AOL ads special placement on its site, a switch from its ad auction system. New York Times, 17 December 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/technology/17aol.html [To here] STUDY EVALUATES WIKIPEDIA CONTENT According to a research study published in the journal Nature, Wikipedia compares favorably with the Encyclopedia Britannica in the accuracy of its information despite recent criticisms of its content and methods. The Nature study compared articles from both Web sites on a wide range of topics, asking field experts to review the accuracy of the entries. Serious errors (such as misunderstandings of vital concepts) were evenly distributed between the two encyclopedias, with four serious errors each. As for errors of fact, omissions, or misleading text, Wikipedia had 162 such errors and Britannica had 123. The study is the first to use peer review to compare the accuracy of the two sources' coverage of science. Silicon.com, 16 December 2005 http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39155109,00.htm MICHIGAN PONDERS ONLINE REQUIREMENT High school students in Michigan will be required to take at least one online course in order to graduate under a proposal before the Michigan State Board of Education, which is expected to approve it. Mike Flanagan, the Michigan state superintendent of public instruction, offered the proposal as a way to help students in the state prepare for college and for professional lives, which he said increasingly employ technology. The board is expected to pass the new regulation, which would make Michigan the first state to require an online course for a high school diploma. Kathleen N. Straus, president of the board, said, "We think we'd be on the cutting edge" if they pass the new rule, which would still require the approval of the state legislature and the governor. The proposal would allow noncredit online courses, such as ACT prep classes, to count toward the requirement, but Flanagan said he hopes students would choose to take for-credit courses. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 December 2005 http://chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121301t.htm COLLEGES JOIN THE RFID BANDWAGON A number of colleges and universities are launching academic programs that focus on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID tools, which use small electronic devices to track physical goods, are seen by many as the future for management of inventories and supply chains. MBA students at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University are using a model train equipped with tiny transmitters to learn about and test RFID technology in a way that simulates a conveyor belt in a factory. As the Kelley School's Ashok Soni said, having a real conveyor belt just wasn't feasible. Meanwhile, the University of California at Irvine announced an RFID certificate program that includes courses such as "Solving Business Problems with Radio Frequency Identification Devices." Research firm Gartner estimates that the market for RFID this year will be $504 million, an increase of 39 percent over last year. The company also predicts that RFID spending will grow to $3 billion annually by the end of the decade. CNET, 13 December 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5993692.html ONLINE EDUCATION BOOMING Analysts speaking at a conference on the business of higher education this week argued that the market for online learning, though often downplayed relative to other topics, is thriving and represents the future of for-profit education. Online music, for example, receives a lot of hype in the media, according to one analyst, but the market for online education is seven times larger than that for online music. Douglas L. Becker, CEO of Laureate Education Inc., which operates a network of international universities, said that in many parts of the world the demand for higher education far outstrips the supply. Moreover, while for-profit colleges enroll less than 5 percent of all college students, more than a third of all students taking an online course are enrolled at a for-profit institution. The conditions are ripe for online education to lead to significant growth in for-profit colleges in the coming years, according to analysts. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 December 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/12/2005121305n.htm QUANTA TO PRODUCE MIT'S $100 LAPTOPS Computer maker Quanta has been chosen to manufacture the $100 laptops that are the brainchild of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte and supported by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization. Based in Taiwan, Quanta is the world's largest maker of laptops, building the devices for companies including Dell and HP. Some believe that supplying the developing world with inexpensive computer technology will be a boon for educational and economic development of those nations, and the notion of an inexpensive laptop is part of that vision. Previous attempts to build and deploy similar technology have failed, and detractors argue that the $100 laptop program doesn't stand much of a chance. Nevertheless, recruiting a major hardware manufacturer signals the level of support that the project enjoys. Of the announcement, Negroponte said, "Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away." Silicon.com, 14 December 2005 http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39155040,00.htm CSIA GIVES FEDS D+ ON CYBERSECURITY In a report card released by the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the federal government received a grade of D+ for cybersecurity. CISA gave credit to the Department of Homeland Security for establishing a new position, the assistant secretary for cybersecurity. Six months after that job was created, however, it remains unfilled. Paul Kurtz, executive director of CSIA, commented that "Cybersecurity research is in a crisis." CSIA also launched what it calls a Digital Confidence Index, a measure of public confidence in efforts to protect computers and systems. The initial rating for the index is 58 out of 100. CSIA issued a set of 13 recommendations, called the National Agenda for Information Security in 2006, designed to improve the nation's cybersecurity. Among the recommendations are calls to increase funding for cybersecurity research and to promote cooperation among federal agencies. Federal Computer Week, 13 December 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article91710-12-13-05-Web You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Hidden by all the rest, was the news that super-lobbiest Abramoff is trying to make a deal for a reduced sentence on his many charges by testifying against his former business and political partners. Source: Albany Times Union * Intelligent Design Is Just Creationism Renamed, says Judge Jones "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board's real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom." Federal judge, John E Jones III Appointed by President George W. Bush In the Dover School Board case, Judge Jones revealed that in 150 instances in the book "Of Pandas and People" the term "intelligent design" had merely replaced terms such as "creation science" or "creation" or "creationism" and similar terms in a ploy to get around the recent major decisions against teaching creationism in public school science classes. Judge Jones said, Intelligent Design/Creationism "has not generated peer-reviewed publications, nor has it been the subject of testing and research." Source The Telegraph, UK PBS *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, a wiretap requires a a court order." "Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so," he added. President George W. Bush April 20, 2004, Buffalo, NY "You see, what that meant is if you got a wiretap by court order, and by the way, everything you hear about requires court order, requires there to be permission from a FISA court, for example," President George W. Bush Hershey, Pennsylvania "A couple of things that are very important for you to understand about the Patriot Act. First of all, any action that takes place by law enforcement requires a court order. "In other words, the government can't move on wiretaps or roving wiretaps without getting a court order," he said. "What the Patriot Act said, is let's give our law enforcement the tools necessary, without abridging the Constitution of the United States, the tools necessary to defend America." President George W. Bush July 14, 2004 Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin Source: [all 12/20/05 and 12/21/05] Los Angeles Times "Cheney Defends Domestic Spying" Gulf Times, Qatar "For Years, Bush Said Court Orders Required For Spying Baltimore Sun "Cheney Supports Wiretap Authority" New York Newsday "Cheney Defends Domestic Spying" Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "Police-State Methods No Answer To Terror" *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Oil-drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) will become as much an albatross around Senator Ted Stevens neck as his infamous "bridge to nowhere." * Hesitating to even quote any of those mentioning impeachment. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "Watergate and a lot of the things around Watergate and Vietnam, both during the 1970s, served, I think, to erode the authority I think the president needs to be effective, especially in the national security area." VP Dick Cheney, to reporters traveling on Air Force Two with him. Cheney added that "the vast majority" approve of the recently revealed surveillance without court orders. [Echoing Nixon's "Silent Majority."] "And so if there's a backlash pending, I think the backlash is going to be against those who are suggesting somehow we shouldn't take these steps in order to defend the country." Source: Los Angeles Times White House Press Pool * A bipartisan letter from five Senators stated for the record: "At no time, to our knowledge, did any administration representative ask the Congress to consider amending existing law to permit electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists without a warrant," [Two Republicans, Three Democrats] [Similar letters are being made available from other members of Congress, some still waiting for declassification, written in 2002 when some dozen members were advised of the situation. Some say the fact that they kept silent, as requested, was a form of tacit approval, a charge also levied at the New York Times, who broke the story a few days ago, after knowing about it for a year. Condensed from multiple sources, apologies that my note taking was going to fast to get everything.] * "Why is it that President Bush went in front of the American people and said that a wiretap 'requires a court order' after having approved a wiretap program without a court order two years earlier?" Howard Dean * "When the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was created in 1978, one of the things that the Attorney General at the time, Griffin Bell, testified before the intelligence committee, and he said that the current bill recognizes no inherent power of the President to conduct electronic surveillance." He said, 'This bill specifically states that the procedures in the bill are the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be conducted.' Sources: James Bamford Christian Science Monitor * "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 shall be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance ... may be conducted." [FISA; 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2511(f)] Source: Bush's Use of NSA Spying and the Law Institute for Public Accuracy (press release), DC - Dec 19, 2005 * In addition, the FBI has been reported to be spying on various groups supporting animal rights and other such causes, as per FBI documents obtained under the Freedom Of Information Act. These include: A vegan community project [vegetarians] A Catholic workers group PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] However, the FBI officially denies that "Just being referenced in an FBI file is not tantamount to being the subject of an investigation," according to FBI spokesman John Miller. [However, you might notice that Mr. Miller did NOT deny that these people were under FBI investigation.] "The Justice Department does not comment on or confirm the existence of criminal investigations. All matters referred to the department by the intelligence agencies for purposes of further investigation are taken seriously and thoroughly reviewed." Brian Roehrkasse, Justice Dept. spokesman. "It goes back to the dark days of Nixon and the enemies list." Jeff Kerr, PETA General Counsel Source: FBI ACLU United Press International The Washington Post Also see: Joint Terrorism Task Forces *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The WTA strike [transit strike] in New York City is costing the union $1 million per day in fines, and costing New York City $400-$660 million is lost business. Source: International Herald Tribune Bloomberg Voice of America * Google is trying to buy 5% of AOL. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK This Room This room contains us all. The walls stretch out to encompass the angry me, the wicked me, the mother & child me, the melancholic me, the sanctified self of the loving me. Design dating back when all things were just beginning, and the beginning had already begun. We are stuck here. Pinned into place onto this board. Past days present. Present days all here. Future hopes drawn like tattoos on the stretching arms of the walls. One finds it great to have flexible views. Feelings live in separate compartments, drawn in through secret passageways of senses. Counting rains and rainbows, I found them all, handily located at the trysting place between heart and soul. Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com *** *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. 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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 49 weeks of this year, we have produced 2891 new eBooks. It took us from 7/71 to 9/01 to produce our FIRST 2819 eBooks!!! That's 49 WEEKS as Compared to ~30 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2697 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright [Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format] Oct 2001 The Wars of The Jews, by Flavius Josephus [warjexxx.xxx] 2850 [Title: The Wars of The Jews or the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem] Oct 2001 Against Apion, by Flavius Josephus[Tr. Wm. Whiston[agaapxxx.xxx] 2849 Oct 2001 The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus [taofjxxx.xxx] 2848 Oct 2001 Josephus' Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades[hadesxxx.xxx] 2847 [Title: An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades] Oct 2001 The Life of Flavius Josephus, Tr. by Wm. Whiston [lfjosxxx.xxx] 2846 Oct 2001 Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle [A. C. Doyle #24][nigelxxx.xxx] 2845 Oct 2001 Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray [#25][fbootxxx.xxx] 2844 Oct 2001 Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by Thackeray[ltarsxxx.xxx] 2843 Oct 2001 Black Heart and White Heart, by H. R. Haggard[#24][bwhrtxxx.xxx] 2842 Oct 2001 The Ivory Child, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #23][ivoryxxx.xxx] 2841 (Note: These three are our first eBooks in Flemish/Dutch:) Sep 2001 De Franse Pers, Heinrich Heine [#3/Flemish/Dutch][fpersxxx.xxx] 2840 Sep 2001 Franse Toestanden, Heinrich Heine[2/Flemish/Dutch][ftoesxxx.xxx] 2839 Sep 2001 De Beurs lacht, Heinrich Heine [#1/Flemish/Dutch][fbeurxxx.xxx] 2838 Sep 2001 Lendas do Sul, by J. Somoes Lopes Netto [lendaxxx.xxx] 2837 [Language: Portuguese] (Note: Our First eBook in Portuguese!) Sep 2001 Abraham Lincoln and the Union, Nath'l W Stephenson[alatuxxx.xxx] 2836 Sep 2001 The Canadian Dominion, by Oscar D. Skelton [cndndxxx.xxx] 2835 Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 2, by Henry James[#37][2pldyxxx.xxx] 2834 Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 1, by Henry James[#36][1pldyxxx.xxx] 2833 Sep 2001 Myth, Ritual, and Religion, V1, by Andrew Lang #28[1mrarxxx.xxx] 2832 Sep 2001 A Bundle of Ballads, by Henry Morley [bndbaxxx.xxx] 2831 Sep 2001 Reginald, by Saki (H. H. Munro) [Saki HH Munro #5][rgnldxxx.xxx] 2830 Sep 2001 Fanny and the Servant Problem, by Jerome K. Jerome[fnyspxxx.xxx] 2829 Sep 2001 Under the Deodars, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling #19][undeoxxx.xxx] 2828 Sep 2001 Aslauga's Knight by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque 4[slkntxxx.xxx] 2827 Sep 2001 The Two Captains by Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque 3[2cpnsxxx.xxx] 2826 Sep 2001 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #2][undinxxx.xxx] 2825 Sep 2001 Sintram and His Companions, by Friedrich Fouque #1[sntrmxxx.xxx] 2824 [Author: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouque] Sep 2001 The Fitz-Boodle Papers/William Makepeace Thackeray[fitzbxxx.xxx] 2823 Sep 2001 London in 1731, Don Manoel Gonzales [londnxxx.xxx] 2822 Sep 2001 The Story of the Gadsby, by Rudyard Kipling[RK#18][tsotgxxx.xxx] 2821 Sep 2001 La Fin des Livres by Octave Uzanne & Albert Robida[endbkxxh.zip] 2820 [English Title: The End of Books] Sep 2001 Barrack-Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling [RK #17][barbaxxx.xxx] 2819 Sep 2001 Beautiful Joe, by Marshall Saunders [beajoxxx.xxx] 2818 Sep 2001 Chamber Music, by James Joyce [James Joyce #2][chamuxxx.xxx] 2817 Sep 2001 The City of the Sun, by Tommaso Campanells [tcotsxxx.xxx] 2816 Sep 2001 Democracy An American Novel, by Henry Adams[HA #2][demamxxx.xxx] 2815 Sep 2001 Dubliners, by James Joyce [James Joyce #1] [dblnrxxx.xxx] 2814 Sep 2001 The Grand Babylon Hotel, by Arnold Bennett [grbahxxx.xxx] 2813 Sep 2001 Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero #2][letcixxx.xxx] 2812 [Tr. by E. S. Shuckburgh] Sep 2001 Letters of Pliny the Younger, Tr. William Melmoth [ltplnxxx.xxx] 2811 [Revised by F. C. T. Bosanquet] (Note: the filename ltplnxxx.xxx is also used for a totally different eBook, #3234 in etext02) Sep 2001 Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, by Plunkitt and Riordan [plnthxxx.xxx] 2810 Sep 2001 Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland [matraxxx.xxx] 2809 Sep 2001 Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Cicero [tfroaxxx.xxx] 2808 Sep 2001 To Have and To Hold, by Mary Johnston [thathxxx.xxx] 2807 Sep 2001 Phantom 'Rickshaw & Other Ghost Stories by Kipling[phricxxx.xxx] 2806 Sep 2001 With Lee in Virginia [US Civil War], by G.A. Henty[leeivxxx.xxx] 2805 Sep 2001 Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #7] [rsblmxxx.xxx] 2804 [This is the sequel to Eight Cousins, #2726] Sep 2001 The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan [lvnskxxx.xxx] 2803 Sep 2001 Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson [rmonaxxx.xxx] 2802 Sep 2001 The Commonwealth of Oceana, by James Harrington [oceanxxx.xxx] 2801 Sep 2001 The Koran, Translated by J.M. Rodwell [koranxxx.xxx] 2800 [Title AKA: Al-Qur'an; Q'uran; Quraan] [Intro. by Rev. G. Margoliouth, M.A.] (Note: previously incorrectly listed as The Koran, by Mohammed/Mohammad) (See also: #3434, #7440) * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet From http://gutenberg.org? 1.15 Trillion eBooks Given Away If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,485,055,987 that would be 17,775 x 64,850,560 = ~1.15 Trillion !!! With 17,775 eBooks online as of December 14, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.87 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,850,560 x 17,775 x $.87 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.57 Value Per Book With 17,775 eBooks online as of December 14, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.56 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.68 when we had 14,707 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 17,775 eBooks in 34 Years and 05.25 Months We Averaged ~516 Per Year 43.0 Per Month 1.41 Per Day At 2819 eBooks Done In The 343 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 58 Per Week 251 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

pt1a1.d05 pt1b1.d05 Weekly_December_14.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, December 14, 2005 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A *** Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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[Includes Australian eBooks] We Are ~88% of the Way to 20,000!!! 14,713 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~250 eBooks per Month for ~59 Months We Have Produced 2819 eBooks in 2005!!! 2,225 to go to 20,000!!! 7,806 from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] 514 from Project Gutenberg of Australia 131 from Project Gutenberg of Europe [We will start including these in 2006] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Are Averaging ~250 books Per Month This Year [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] This Site Is Averaging ~58 eBooks Per Week This Year 61 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] HARPERCOLLINS TO DIGITIZE BOOKS HarperCollins has announced plans to digitize its own books and make those files available through search services, marking the latest development in the rapidly changing landscape of electronic access to books. Google is working on its hotly contested service to scan vast numbers of texts and make them available online, while other companies have begun their own programs to digitize books. The move by HarperCollins is that company's attempt to be a part of new technologies while retaining control over its content. The company will pay to have an estimated 20,000 backlisted books digitized, as well as about 3,500 new titles each year. Those electronic files will be open to search engines to make indexes but not to download images of the pages. According to Brian Murray, group president of HarperCollins, "We'll own the file, and we'll control the terms of any sale." Jane Friedman, chief executive of the publisher, said, "We want to be the best collaborator, but we also want to take charge of our future." The company said the effort would also allow it to keep certain titles available long after they are out of print. Wall Street Journal, 12 December 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113435527609919890.html GEORGE MASON DEVELOPS ACADEMIC BROWSER ADD-ON Researchers at George Mason University are developing a plug-in for the Firefox browser that will help academics organize sources and properly cite them. The tool is designed to harvest bibliographic information from online sources and organize it for someone doing research on the Web. Assuming the bibliographic elements are formatted in a way the software can recognize, the application will parse title, author, and other information and correlate it with the source. Daniel J. Cohen, assistant professor of history and one of the developers, said it can be thought of as "incredibly smart bookmarking.... You're not just bookmarking the page, but you're automatically [capturing]...all that info that scholars want to save." Unlike commercial products that organize sources, the new application will tie directly into the browser, eliminating the step of manually collecting citation details. The open source application is expected to be completed next year and will be available for no charge from George Mason's Web site. Cohen said he believes the application will make unintentional plagiarism less likely than if a researcher were keeping sources organized manually. Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 December 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/12/2005120602t.htm EU DOMAIN OPENS FOR BUSINESS A new domain has been launched that supporters believe will help create a sense of identity and strength among the nations of the European Union (EU). The .eu domain is initially open to organizations that hold trademarks or have offices in any of the 25 nations in the EU. The domain will later be opened to other groups and eventually to individuals. More than 400 registrars have been approved to handle applications for the domain. Jean Pire, a senior partner in a Belgian intellectual property law firm, said he expects the .eu domain to grow to be second only to .com in the number of Web sites that use it. Currently, .com is the domain for more than half of the world's Web sites; Pire predicts .eu eventually to represent about 25 percent of Web sites. The .eu extension will not replace existing country-specific extensions, such as .de for Germany and .fr for France. Wall Street Journal, 7 December 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113391801658415733.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news, credibility gaps, ploys, mis- and dis-information.] [Didn't believe the previous reports here? Try these. And start getting used to the idea that China and India are going to be driving the world's economy for decades] China Is Now World's #1 Information Technology Producer Laptops, cellphones, digital cameras, etc. Not only is China the largest, but it is growing by nearly 50% per year in techno-sales, nearly 4 times faster than US sales are growing, so the gap widens faster and faster. Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). See: China overtakes US as biggest supplier of tech goods Indian Express China Overtakes US as Supplier of Information Technology Goods New York Times China overtakes the United States as the world's biggest supplier ... FinFacts Ireland * EU Parliament to Investigate CIA Prisoner Transport The European Parliament is meeting today to question the actions of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, in secretly removing 400 prisoners from U.S. soil to former Iron Curtain countries Poland, Romania and possibly others. Following several more reports, including those of the Council of Europe, that have created "credible reports" concerning "inquiry into alleged American secret detention centres and clandestine prison transport." Franco Frattini, EU vice-commissioner, has requested satellite images and flight logs from Eurocontrol to confirm these reports, and has advised EU Parliament of these proceedings. The newly popularlized terms for such prisoner transfer are "rendition", "black sites," and "torture flights." Here follows the concluding paragraph of: Times Online December 14, 2005 article by Sam Knight and Philip Webster "Growing unease about the CIA's rendition programme, which is believed to have transported 3,000 terrorist suspects for interrogation around the world since 2001, has prompted investigations in Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden." Sources: Times Online, UK EUobserver.com CNN International NPR *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "This careful research has been unable to identify any occasion since September 11, 2001. . .or earlier in the Bush Administration when we received a request for permission by the United States for a rendition through United Kingdom territory or airspace." As per "very detailed searches of all our records" by the UK Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. However, this was followed by: full circumstances of CIA flights in and out of the country. "Military flights by other countries are not subject to checking local authorities." Quotes from Jack Straw Britich Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK There will be a million eBooks online in two years, with or without efforts by Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Library of Congress, and now HarperCollins has thrown their hat into the ring. [Story above in Edupage section] * By this time Chinese will be the most popular Internet language, but, given the Chinese government's opinions on free information, free as in free speech, I don't think they will be a major force in building the world eBook libraries until/unless a significant social or political change has taken place. * *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK [Referring to investigating the CIA rendition flights] "We don't know yet if this has become an EU issue, but we cannot be the last ones to discover if something serious happened. We are here to seek the truth and not to wait for someone to provide it for us." Jean-Marie Cavada Chair of European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee * "Legal proceedings in progress in certain countries seemed to indicate that individuals had been abducted and transferred to other countries without respect for any legal standards." Dick Marty Swiss Senator In a written summary of his investigation on "extraordinary rendition" *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK A Full Time Minimum Wage Worker Cannot Afford One Bedroom According to the current Low Income Housing Coalition report there is not a single county in the United States today where full time minimum wage workers can afford one bedroom apartments. This is the final straw, down from their report of December 20 of last year when only 4 of the 3066 U.S. counties could afford the average one bedroom apartment. The figures cannot fall any further, they have reached zero. Source: CBS News, NPR News, Low Income Housing Coalition * [Commentary] [Remember the recently publicized events in which Social Security recipients were told: "Social Security was never intended to meet all retirement needs." "Social Security was never intended to do the whole job." "Social Security was never intended or designed to be an investment vehicle." "Social Security was never intended to be a person's sole source of income during retirement." Now that there isn't a single county in the United States where a full time minimum wage worker can rent a one bedroom apartment, I wonder how long it is going to be before the official line is: "Minimum wage was never intended to support a full time worker." * $2.4 million will buy you a 30 second ad in the Super Bowl. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK [REprint. . .apparently this one got a bit mangled in the process of getting it prepared, my apologies.] a moment with you laid back time's a blue octopus embracing my ankles, my feet like birds cut through airy waves of memory polyphonic castles erected in the realm of newspeak sounds upon sounds describe majestic towers sweet melody of understanding playing over and over again the abyssal voice: lonesome mariners befriending oysters their old secrets revealed through long voyages initiation a dialogue of alikeness opening up door after or after door above a seagull: caresses came to resemble its dance touch of feathers spreading wide in horizons of color ethereal sensations, hear mermaids singing beloved songs the rhythm of utter belonging joyfully contained in a moment with you Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

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Moon 17222 [Subtitle: A Pagan and Jewish Rite but not Christian, Proven By Scripture And History Confirmed By The Lives Of Saints Who Were Never Baptized With Water] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/2/17222 ] [Files: 17222.txt; 17222-8.txt; 17222-h.htm] History of the Plague in England, by Daniel Defoe 17221 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/2/17221 ] [Files: 17221.txt; 17221-8.txt; 17221-h.htm] Bohemian Society, by Lydia Leavitt 17220 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/2/17220 ] [Files: 17220.txt; 17220-8.txt; 17220-h.htm] La creaci d'Eva i altres contes, by Josep Carner 17219 [Language: Catalan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/1/17219 ] [Files: 17219-8.txt] The Black Cat, by John Todhunter 17218 [Subtitle: A Play in Three Acts] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/1/17218 ] [Files: 17218.txt; 17218-8.txt; 17218-h.htm] The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866, by Various 17217 [Subtitle: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/1/17217 ] [Files: 17217.txt; 17217-8.txt; 17217-h.htm] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, Complete, ed. by Sir Mark Lemon 17216 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/2/1/17216 ] [Files: 17216.txt; 17216-8.txt; 17216-h.htm] Rembrandt, by Mortimer Menpes 17215 [Commentator: C. 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Rider Haggard #18][bnitaxxx.xxx] 2761 Celebrated Crimes, Complete, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2760 Aug 2001 The Man in the Iron Mask[The Novel]Dumas, Pere #28[ironmxxx.xxx] 2759 Marquise de Ganges, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2758 Vaninka, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2757 Marquise de Brinvilliers, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2756 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet From http://gutenberg.org? 1.15 Trillion eBooks Given Away If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,483,625,064 that would be 17,713 x 64,836,251 = ~1.15 Trillion !!! 6,483,625,064 64,836,251 With 17,713 eBooks online as of December 07, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.87 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,836,251 x 17,713 x $.87 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.56 Value Per Book With 17,713 eBooks online as of December 07, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.57 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.68 when we had 14,649 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 17,713 eBooks in 34 Years and 05.00 Months We Averaged ~515 Per Year 42.9 Per Month 1.41 Per Day At 2757 eBooks Done In The 336 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 57 Per Week 251 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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07 Dec '05

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Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] OPEN SOURCE LICENSE UP FOR REVISION The Free Software Foundation has announced plans to revise the General Public License (GPL), which covers many open source applications including the Linux operating system. The license has not been revised since 1991, long before Linux and other open source applications had been implemented widely. Now, according to Eben Moglen, the foundation's general counsel, "The big boys, corporations and governments, have far more reason to be interested and concerned." The GPL and the Free Software Foundation are the creations of Richard Stallman, an unwavering critic of proprietary software and the author of much of the source code that led to the Linux operating system. Stallman has used the license and the foundation to foster what he says are the four principles of software: the ability to use, study, copy, and modify it. Stallman acknowledged that with the success of open source applications in recent years, the task of revising the GPL is complicated by patent issues, which must allow open source and proprietary software to run on the same systems. A first draft of the new GPL will be presented at MIT in mid-January. The revision process is expected to be completed by the end of 2006, with the Free Software Foundation making final decisions about changes. New York Times, 30 November 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/technology/30license.html THE RISING TIDE OF ONLINE COLLEGE APPLICATIONS [Is This Perpetuating "The Digital Divide?"] Motivated by a number of factors, growing numbers of college hopefuls are turning to the Web to submit applications, though concerns about the medium persist. For colleges and universities, online applications generally mean easier processing with fewer mistakes. Many institutions waive application fees--which can run as high as $75--for students who apply online. As a result, most institutions are seeing higher percentages of applications filed online, and many students are applying at more institutions. According to the National Association for College Admission Counseling, 57 percent of students applied to college online in 2004, compared to 35 percent one year earlier. The Higher Education Research Institute reported that in 2004, more than 16 percent of students applied to seven or more schools, up from less than 10 percent in 1994. Some schools do not waive fees for online applications, however, among them Yale University and Harvard University. And despite growing confidence in the Internet, some students remain skeptical that their materials have been received. William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard, said, "Students will send it electronically, then they will fax it to you, and then they will send it snail mail." Wall Street Journal, 30 November 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113331711186209812.html NEW ORLEANS ANNOUNCES WI-FI NETWORK City officials from New Orleans have announced plans to deploy a wireless network covering the entire city by the end of 2006. The network will provide improved communication for city services, including fire and police departments, and--the city hopes--will draw residents and businesses back to the city following this year's disastrous hurricane season. When complete, the network will provide free Internet access to anyone in the city. Unlike several other municipal networks under development, the New Orleans network will be installed and operated by the city itself. Still, city officials must grapple with a state law that restricts Internet access speeds on municipal networks. Unless the city is able to change the law or win an exemption, it will only be allowed to offer transfer speeds of 144 Kbps. Representatives of cable and phone companies that offer Internet access have argued that cities should not be allowed to offer services that compete with services from private companies. City officials reject that notion, arguing that commercial Internet access is too expensive and inconvenient for many potential users. Silicon.com, 30 November 2005 http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39154681,00.htm INTERNATIONAL GROUP SUES OVER .COM MANAGEMENT The World Association of Domain Name Developers has filed a lawsuit in a California court against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign over a deal recently reached between the two organizations. After resolving a dispute over VeriSign's Site Finder service, which directed users who mistyped URLs to VeriSign's Web site, ICANN agreed to an extension of the contract that allows VeriSign to manage the .com and .net domains. Although the extension runs from 2007 to 2012, the lawsuit filed by the developers association contends that the contract "provides for the automatic renewal of the agreement and thereby precludes competitors from ever entering the .com and .net domain name registration market," thereby establishing a monopoly for the domains. The only means for another company to bid on the work, according to the suit, is if VeriSign goes out of business or fails to meet the terms of the contract. A statement from ICANN said the lawsuit is intended to divert attention away from an ICANN meeting currently being held in Vancouver. BBC, 29 November 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4482292.stm MICROSOFT TWEAKS IE TO SIDESTEP EOLAS PATENT Microsoft has made a change to its Internet Explorer browser to avoid infringing on a patent held by Eolas Technologies, though Microsoft continues to dispute the validity of that patent. Eolas was granted a patent in 1998 for a technology that allows certain programs, such as applets or ActiveX controls, to be launched automatically from Web pages. Eolas sued Microsoft in 1999 and in 2003 was awarded $521 million for infringement of its intellectual property. That case has been working its way through appeals courts and is set for a retrial. In the meantime, Microsoft has opted to modify its browser so that users must manually accept the launching of ActiveX controls on Web pages. Unlike an earlier proposal, the one implemented will not require users to accept each such control on a Web page but simply to accept them all at once. Microsoft's Michael Wallent said this solution is less intrusive and that for most users, it will be "an almost invisible change." Microsoft is working with developers to rewrite Web pages in a way to minimize the effects of the change. Internet News, 2 December 2005 http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3568286 [Meanwhile The Rest of the World is in High Gear] SINGAPORE TO INVEST IN ELECTRONIC SECTOR The government of Singapore has announced plans to invest nearly $600 million over the next decade to foster growth in the digital sector of the country's economy. Singapore's Economic Development Board will manage the investments, which will support four areas: attracting businesses from outside the country; fostering a climate that encourages residents of the country to pursue careers in digital media; funding research and development; and providing financial backing for electronic projects involving local and overseas interests. Vivian Balakrishnan, second minister for trade and industry, said the country hopes that the investment will generate 30,000 new jobs in Singapore by 2018. The announcement coincided with the opening of a game development facility by Electronic Arts. Officials in Singapore hope that the country's digital industry will grow to nearly $6 billion by 2018. CNET, 5 December 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5982727.html INTEL UPS INVESTMENT IN INDIA Intel has announced plans to invest $1 billion in India, where it already operates the company's largest nonmanufacturing site outside the United States. That site, in Bangalore, hosts development efforts for software. The new investment, expected over the next five years, will be split between the existing research and development efforts and local firms. Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, said, "We will grow our local operations, boost venture capital investments, and work closely with the government, industry, and educators." The company said it has not made any decisions about opening manufacturing facilities in India, though such an option remains open. The costs of doing business in countries including India are significantly lower than in the United States. Some estimates put the salary for an Indian software engineer at one-sixth of what a comparably skilled engineer would earn in the United States. BBC, 5 December 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4499362.stm [More Strange Microsoft Browser News] RHAPSODY USERS CAN SKIP THE DOWNLOAD RealNetworks has introduced a Web-based version of its Rhapsody online music service, untethering existing users from their usual computers and opening the service to users with non-Windows-based computers. Until now, Rhapsody users had to download an application to their computers to access the service. With the new offering, users can access the service from any computer using their existing Rhapsody names and passwords. The new feature also allows Mac users and those with Linux-based computers to access Rhapsody. The catch is that the Web-based service only permits music streaming--customers who want to purchase tracks will still be required to use the downloaded application. Rhapsody also allows users to listen to 25 songs per month for free. Subscribers can listen to an unlimited number of songs. Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, said he wouldn't be bothered if most users of the Web-based service choose only to listen to free songs because "the Internet advertising market is doing pretty well." Wall Street Journal, 5 December 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113379130776613997.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] * Florida Jury Acquits Professor of 8 Terror Charges Professor Sami Al-Arian had been accused of being part of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, along with three others. Yesterday a jury acquitted him of 8 of those charges, but left at least as many of the charges still on the table, and prosecutors will have to decide if they want to proceed. Source: Standard-Speaker, Tampa Independent Florida Alligator, FL * Former Capitol Hill Press Secretary Thomas C. Springer was arrested yet again for bank robbery, after someone tailed his blue Geo Metro from the scene calling 911. [Could fiction writers do any better?] A Montgomery County Police spokesman said Mr. Springer was responsible for 7 or more such bank robberies, all in Montgomery County in approximately the last year. In addition, his bank robbery career dates back to his initial arrest in 1989. He spent a year in prison and was released, that time for 3 Maryland banks he hit. He also served another year plus in North Carolina for bank robbery after being arrested in October, 1995. Source: The Washington Post * Giant C-130 Hercules Cargo Plane Crashes In Iran Capitol Various reports indicate the original pilot walked away, saying the plane was unsafe to fly, but after six hours, and various technical difficulties and after stalling on the runway a handful of times, the plane finally managed to get off the runway only to crash into a building, and the death toll is already well above 100, most of them a group of journalists covering military units. Source: ABC Asia Pacific TV / Radio Australia, BBC, PBS *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice denies she told Germen Chancellor Angela Merkel that it was "a mistake" for the CIA to have flown a German man, Khaled el-Masri, to one of the secret CIA prisons in Europe. Secretary Rice did acknowledge that the CIA had created such prisons, but not that the prisoners had been flown to the for purposes of torture. Apparently all the detainees in these secret prisons in Europe have been flown across the Mediterranean to some new secret locations in northern Africa from prisons in Poland, Romania and other undisclosed locations. el-Masri had been detained in an Afghan secret site and is now suing the CIA for wrongful imprisonment. He was originally taken into custody by three men, in civilian clothing, but well armed, as he was crossing the border between Serbia and Macedonia because his name is linked to 9/11 because it is that same as a hijacker's name. In at least one instance such a suit was foiled, by the simple process of not allowing the plaintiff to board a plane to the U.S. Yesterday the lawsuit was finally filed, by the ACLU. Source: BBC, Metro Toronto, Malaysia Star, The Age [of Australia], Independent, UK. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Following Verizon's lead, more and more healthy companies will get out from under their pension funds. [See previous comments on bailing out of pension funds] * The New York Stock Exchange will be forced by competitors to finally stop blocking the oncoming electronic age, and will have to become more computer and network oriented. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "But The Pension Fund Was Just Sitting There!" Doonesbury, Collected Works, from 1978-1979 [Shouldn't someone be hiring Gary Trudeau as Chief Pundit?] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Remember when Dan Rather was offered $5 million to replace Walter Cronkite back in the 1980's? Today the price is $25 million and offered to Katie Couric to lure her away from NBC's Today Show to CBS Evening News. [If you check the inflation figures during Rather's tenure you'll find they were nowhere near 500% for the period, as the rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer.] *** Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK a moment with you laid back time's a blue octopus embracing my ankles, my feet like birds cut through airy waves of memory polyphonic castles erected in the realm of newspeak sounds upon sounds describe majestic towers sweet melody of understanding playing over and over again the abyssal voice: lonesome mariners befriending oysters their old secrets revealed through long voyages initiation a dialogue of alikeness opening up door after or after door above a seagull: caresses came to resemble its dance touch of feathers spreading wide in horizons of color ethereal sensations, hear mermaids singing loved songs the rhythm of utter belonging joyfully contained in a moment with you Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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RESERVED/PENDING count: 45 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: :: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Author information corrected: The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax, by Harriet Parr (AKA Holme Lee) 17086 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/0/8/17086 ] [Files: 17086.txt; 17086-8.txt; 17086-h.htm] -=-=-=-=[ 49 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Greek and Roman Ghost Stories, by Lacy Collison-Morley 17190 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/9/17190 ] [Files: 17190.txt; 17190-8.txt; 17190-h.htm; ] Autumn Leaves, by Various 17189 [Subtitle: Original Pieces in Prose and Verse] [Editor: Anne Wales Abbot] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17189 ] [Files: 17189.txt; 17189-h.htm; ] Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts, by Frank Richard Stockton 17188 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17188 ] [Files: 17188.txt; 17188-8.txt; 17188-h.htm; ] Three Plays, by Zora Neale Hurston 17187 [Subtitle: Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17187 ] [Files: 17187.txt; ] Noes elementares de archeologia, Joaquim Possidnio Narciso da Silva 17186 [Commentator: I. de Vilhena Barbosa] [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17186 ] [Files: 17186-8.txt; 17186-h.htm] Instinct of Animals, by Thomas Bingley 17185 [Title: Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits] [Illustrator: T. Landseer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17185 ] [Files: 17185.txt; 17185-h.htm] Le lys noir, by Jules de Gastyne 17184 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17184 ] [Files: 17184-8.txt] Atm, by Caroline Augusta Frazer 17183 [Subtitle: A Romance] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17183 ] [Files: 17183.txt; 17183-8.txt; 17183-h.htm] Within the Temple of Isis, by Belle M. Wagner 17182 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17182 ] [Files: 17182.txt; 17182-h.htm] Rosalynde, by Thomas Lodge 17181 [Subtitle: or, Euphues' Golden Legacy] [Editor: Edward Chauncey Baldwin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17181 ] [Files: 17181.txt; 17181-8.txt] The Riddle of the Frozen Flame, by Mary E. Hanshew & Thomas W. Hanshew 17180 [Illustrator: Walter De Maris] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/8/17180 ] [Files: 17180.txt; 17180-8.txt; 17180-h.htm] The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889), by Unknown 17179 [Subtitle: Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.] [Editor: Frederick James Furnivall] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17179 ] [Files: 17179.txt; 17179-0.txt; 17179-h.htm] Westerfelt, by Will N. Harben 17178 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17178 ] [Files: 17178.txt; ] Opsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo IV, by Alexandre Herculano 17177 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17177 ] [Files: 17177-8.txt] The Ghost, by Arnold Bennett 17176 [Subtitle: A Modern Fantasy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17176 ] [Files: 17176.txt; 17176-8.txt; 17176-h.htm] The Tapestry Room, by Mrs. Molesworth 17175 [Subtitle: A Child's Romance] [Illustrator: Walter Crane] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17175 ] [Files: 17175.txt; 17175-8.txt; 17175-h.htm] The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval, by A. Leblond de Brumath 17174 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17174 ] [Files: 17174.txt; 17174-8.txt; 17174-h.htm] The Bow of Orange Ribbon, by Amelia E. Barr 17173 [Subtitle: A Romance of New York] [Illustrator: Theo. Hampe] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17173 ] [Files: 17173.txt; 17173-8.txt; 17173-h.htm] The Ethics of George Eliot's Works, by John Crombie Brown 17172 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17172 ] [Files: 17172.txt; 17172-h.htm] New England Salmon Hatcheries...Fisheries...Late 19th Century, Various 17171 [Title: New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century] [Subtitle: Consisting of articles compiled from the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 1881-1894] Contents: Some Results of the Artificial Propagation of Maine and California Salmon in New England & Canada, Recorded in the Years 1879 & 1880 Sketch of the Penobscot Salmon-Breeding Establishment (1883) Penning of Salmon in Order to Secure Their Eggs (1884) Memoranda Relative to Inclosures for the Confinement of Salmon Drawn from Experience at Bucksport, Penobscot River, Maine (1884) Report on the Schoodic Salmon Work of 1884-85 Methods Employed at Craig Brook Station in Rearing Young Salmonid Fishes (1893) Notes on the Capture of Atlantic Salmon at Sea and in the Coast Waters of the Eastern States (1894 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17171 ] [Files: 17171.txt; 17171-h.htm; ] A Study of Pueblo Pottery...Zui, by Frank Hamilton Cushing 17170 [Title: A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zui Culture Growth] [Subtitle: Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/7/17170 ] [Files: 17170.txt; 17170-8.txt; 17170-0.txt; 17170-h.htm] Der Fall Deruga, by Ricarda Huch 17169 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17169 ] [Files: 17169-8.txt; 17169-h.htm] The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte 17168 [Illustrator: Kate Greenaway] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17168 ] [Files: 17168.txt; 17168-8.txt; 17168-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888, by Various 17167 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17167 ] [Files: 17167.txt; 17167-8.txt; 17167-h.htm] A Life of St. John for the Young, by George Ludington Weed 17166 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17166 ] [Files: 17166.txt; 17166-8.txt; 17166-h.htm] A Little Florida Lady, by Dorothy C. Paine 17165 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17165 ] [Files: 17165.txt; 17165-8.txt; 17165-h.htm; ] Mission to Central Africa in 1850-51, Volume 1, by James Richardson 17164 [Title: Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1] [Subtitle: Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17164 ] [Files: 17164.txt; 17164-8.txt; 17164-0.txt; 17164-h.htm] Mother Stories from the New Testament, by Anonymous 17163 [Subtitle: A Book of the Best Stories from the New Testament that Mothers can tell their Children] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17163 ] [Files: 17163.txt; 17163-8.txt; 17163-h.htm] Mother Stories from the Old Testament, by Anonymous 17162 [Subtitle: A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that Mothers can tell their Children] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17162 ] [Files: 17162.txt; 17162-h.htm] Max und Moritz, by Wilhelm Busch 17161 [Subtitle: Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17161 ] [Files: 17161-8.txt; 17161-h.htm; 17161-pdf.pdf] Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools, by Various 17160 [Subtitle: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists] [Editor: Margaret Ashmun] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17160 ] [Files: 17160.txt; 17160-8.txt; 17160-0.txt; 17160-h.htm] Women of Modern France, by Hugo P. Thieme 17159 [Subtitle: Woman In All Ages And In All Countries] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17159 ] [Files: 17159.txt; 17159-8.txt; 17159-0.txt; 17159-h.htm] Armageddon--And After, by W. L. Courtney 17158 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17158 ] [Files: 17158.txt; 17158-8.txt; 17158-h.htm] Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift 17157 [Editor: Thomas M. Balliet] [Subtitle: Into Several Remote Regions of the World] [See also: #829; from a different source] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17157 ] [Files: 17157.txt; 17157-8.txt; 17157-h.htm; ] The Soldier of the Valley, by Nelson Lloyd 17156 [Illus.: A. B. Frost] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17156 ] [Files: 17156.txt; 17156-h.htm; ] About Orchids, by Frederick Boyle 17155 [Subtitle: A Chat] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17155 ] [Files: 17155.txt; 17155-8.txt; 17155-h.htm] The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, ..., by Martin R. Delany 17154 [Title: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17154 ] [Files: 17154.txt; 17154-8.txt; 17154-h.htm] Synthetische Geometrie der Kugeln, by Theodor Reye 17153 [Title: Synthetische Geometrie der Kugeln und linearen Kugelsysteme] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17153 ] [Files: 17153-t.tex; 17153-pdf.pdf] Rosa's Quest, by Anna Potter Wright 17152 [Subtitle: The Way to the Beautiful Land] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17152 ] [Files: 17152.txt; 17152-h.htm; ] Bob Chester's Grit, by Frank V. Webster 17151 [Subtitle: From Ranch to Riches] [Frank V. Webster was a Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17151 ] [Files: 17151.txt; 17151-8.txt; 17151-h.htm; ] The Oldest Code of Laws in the World, by Hammurabi, King of Babylon 17150 [Subtitle: The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242] [Tr.: C. H. W. Johns] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/5/17150 ] [Files: 17150.txt; 17150-h.htm] Creative Chemistry, by Edwin E. Slosson 17149 [Subtitle: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17149 ] [Files: 17149.txt; 17149-8.txt; 17149-h.htm; ] Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States, by C.C. Royce 17148 [Title: Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana] [Subtitle: First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 247-262] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17148 ] [Files: 17148.txt; 17148-h.htm; ] Theodicy, by G. W. Leibniz 17147 [Subtitle: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil] [Ed. and Intro.: Austin Farrer] [Translator: E.M. Huggard] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17147 ] [Files: 17147.txt; 17147-8.txt; 17147-h.htm] Diddie, Dumps & Tot, by Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle 17146 [Subtitle: or, Plantation child-life] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17146 ] [Files: 17146.txt; 17146-h.htm] Hallowe'en at Merryvale, by Alice Hale Burnett 17145 [Illus.: Charles F. Lester] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17145 ] [Files: 17145.txt; 17145-h.htm; ] The House of the Vampire, by George Sylvester Viereck 17144 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17144 ] [Files: 17144.txt; 17144-8.txt; 17144-h.htm; ] Die griechische Tnzerin, by Arthur Schnitzler 17142 [Subtitle: und andere Novellen] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17142 ] [Files: 17142-8.txt; 17142-0.txt; 17142-h.htm] Destiny, by Charles Neville Buck 17141 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/4/17141 ] [Files: 17141.txt; 17141-8.txt; 17141-h.htm; ] -=-=-=-=[ 1 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nov 2005 The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks,by Banks[050114xx.xxx] 0509A [Author: Sir Joseph Banks] eBooks are posted in uncompressed and/or compressed formats. 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