Food for Thought - November 2000
Webgrammar Stew
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Agape Art: Vandeleur Leigh's Dog Art
Chiasmus.com
Haze Gray Mystery Pictures
Metropolitan Museum of Modern Starts
The Original Tipping Page
Did You Know
Recommendations
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AGAPE ART: THE WORKS OF VANDELEUR LEIGH While downloading takes a while, the wait is worthwhile. These reproductions of her works in various media are superb.
http://folksites.com/LearntheNet/agape-art/Agape-Art.html
CHIASMUS is a site devoted to the literary and rhetorical device known as chiasmus (pronounced ky-AZ-mus). Chiasmus occurs when the order of words is reversed in parallel expressions, for example: "One should eat to live, not live to eat" (Cicero); "I'd rather be looked over than overlooked" (Mae West). Site operated by Dr. Marty Grothe, a Boston-area psychologist.
http://www.chiasmus.com/
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 2000
MoMA2000 presents three major exhibition cycles that focus on distinct historical periods: 1880 to 1920 (ModernStarts), 1920 to 1960 (Making Choices), and 1960 to the present (Open Ends). Each historical cycle is interspersed with works from other periods, creating a dialogue between various historical moments. Installed throughout the entire Museum, works in all mediums are presented in innovative, multidisciplinary ways.
Modern Starts is the first of three exhibitions, each examining 40 years of collecting at The Museum of Modern Art through the year 2000. Drawing entirely form the museum's collection Modern Starts covers the period from 1880-1920, a time characterized by a spirit of invention and the pursuit of the new. Revolutionary impulses were manifold, and so was the artistic production of the time. In this time of renewal art had not one face but many. Hence Modern Starts refers to the birth of the modern as a concept as well as to the diversity of means and strategies employed by artists to create modern art.
http://moma2000.moma.org/
HAZE GRAY MYSTERY PICTURES Haze Gray and Underway was founded in 1994 by Andrew Toppan. Through various name changes and relocations over the years, this site has remained dedicated to providing the finest naval history information. Today Hazegray has grown to over 14,000 files, among them over 3,000 images. They are dedicated to maintaining this site as a world-class resource for naval, maritime, and shipbuilding history and news.
The site's Mystery Pictures give readers a chance to test their naval knowledge and research skills by identifying various "mystery" ships, shipyards or other navy-related items. The pictures are drawn from various eras and nations, and cover everything from the commonplace to the bizarre and unique. It is their intent that each photo can be identified by good detective/research work; it should not be necessary to guess or to "get lucky" - although luck will certainly help!
http://www.hazegray.org/mysteries/
THE ORIGINAL TIPPING PAGE Recommendations for tipping, both within the U.S. and internationally.
http://www.tipping.org/tips/TipsPageTips.html
DID YOU KNOW that many common words may be written either as one solid word or as two separate words, depending on the meaning.
Principle - Principal
Principle can only be used as a noun, and can mean "a basic law or rule," or "faithful adherence to a code of ethics."
Principle can serve as a noun (business owner or partner; high school principal; return on my principal) or adjective (principal reason for voting; principal parts of a computer).
Rack - Wrack
Some authorities regard "wrack" as a spelling variant of "rack," but careful writers prefer to distinguish between the two.
Rack your brains; nerve-racking experience; racked with pain.
storm-wracked island; business wracked by losses; wrack and ruin.
Raise - Rise
Raise (raise, raised, raising) means to cause to lift or to lift something (He raises a good question; someone raised the rent).
Rise (rise, rose, risen, rising) means to ascend, to move upward by itself, or to get up. This verb cannot be used with an object (the sun rose, we will rise to...)
Real - Really
Real is an adjective (This is real butter). Really is an adverb (We really wanted to go"). Don't use "real" to modify another adjective: use "very" or "really" e.g., don't say it was real nice, say it was really nice or very nice.
With help from The Gregg Reference Manual, Ninth Edition, Sabin, ISBN0-02-804046-5
RECOMMENDATIONS
ABC TEACH
abcteach provides easy, online materials for immediate use by kids, student teachers, teachers, parents and other visitors to the site. The material can be printed directly from the screen; no downloads necessary. Teachers have permission to reproduce pages for classroom use.
http://abcteach.com/index.html
ALLACADEMIC.COM is an academic index. It is designed to provide scholars and researchers with useful on-line source information about scholarly works. All Academic combines a database of on-line scholarly works with the flexibility of broad internet searches. The search index is designed to provide scholars and researchers with a refined set of results useful for academic pursuits. Links are direct from source citations to scholarly publications. Thanks to Danny Sullivan of www.searchenginewatch.com for this resource.
http://www.allacademic.com/
ADFLIP is the world's largest searchable database of classic print ads. We love ads and the pop culture they represent. The "what are you looking for" search box allows you to type in a brand name and even a specific model name. The site doesn't guarantee that you will always get a match, but you may be surprised at what is lurking deep in our archives.
http://www.adflip.com/
ADHERENTS.COM is a growing collection of over 50,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
Basically, researchers can use this site to answer such questions as "How many Presbyterians live in California?", "What are the major religions of Yemen?", or "What percentage of the world is Jewish?" Adherents.com presents data from both primary research sources such as government census reports, statistical sampling surveys and organizational reporting, as well as citations from secondary literature which mention adherent statistics.
http://www.adherents.com/index_adherents.htm
BAGADUCE MUSIC LENDING LIBRARY collects, preserves and lends printed music, and provides music education programs. It is a national resource center for choral, instrumental, vocal and keyboard music, both popular and classical, and for teaching and reference materials. This non-profit organization is funded through memberships, small lending fees, and private fundraising.
Bagaduce Music Lending Library's collection of over 100,000 titles, which are all available for loan, is cataloged on a computer system from which it extracts and publishes eight standard catalogs. It also performs customized searches. Membership is required, however the fees are extremely low.
http://www.hypernet.com/musiclib.html
HEALTHWIDE.COM Healthwide.com is a new health portal with a special search engine powered by Google that provide results specifically from health and medical-related web sites. Thanks to Danny Sullivan of www.searchenginewatch.com for this resource.
http://www.healthwide.com/
DISTANCE EDUCATION AT A GLANCE In order to help teachers, administrators, facilitators, and students understand distance education, Barry Willis, the University of Idaho's Associate Dean for Outreach and its Engineering Outreach staff present a series of guides highlighting information detailed in Dr. Willis' books, Distance Education - Strategies and Tools and Distance Education -
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.html
DAILY GRAMMAR Daily e-mail lessons from an experienced, effective English teacher.
http://www.dailygrammar.com
DEAD PEOPLE SERVER The Dead People Server is a list of interesting celebrities who are long dead, newly dead or might plausibly be dead. Also has a Quash Those Death Rumors page.
http://www.dpsinfo.com/index.shtml
THE HUMAN LANGUAGES PAGE An astounding work, the Human Languages Page site offers an index of resources, organized by type and by language. Its database currently contains over 1800 resources covering more than 100 different languages.
http://www.june29.com/HLP/
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION NARA is an independent Federal agency that helps preserve America's history by overseeing the management of all Federal records. Its mission is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience. Links include NHPRC Grants, Digital Classroom, Exhibit Hall, Research Room, Federal Register, Exhibit Hall, etc.
Among the treasures are the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights. But the National Archives is more than famous documents. NARA is a public trust upon which America's democracy depends. It enables people to inspect for themselves the record of what government has done. It enables officials and agencies to review their actions, and it helps citizens hold them accountable for those actions.
http://www.nara.gov/
NATURE ART NETWORK The Nature Art Network is an international, interactive group of women artists that specializes in nature-related subjects in all fine art media.The nonprofit Network is run strictly by artists, for artists. Nature Art offers original paintings, limited edition prints, sculpture, and special commissions. Subjects include birds, bears, cats, cows, dogs, ducks, flowers, horses, landscapes, pigs, seascapes, waterfowl, and wolves.
http://www.nature-art.net/index.html
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Every two weeks, gifted writers publish essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film–from Woody Allen's Manhattan to Kurosawa's version of King Lear. It is the journal where the most important issues are discussed by writers who are themselves a major force in world literature and thought.
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
RARE COINS & CURRENCY Site sponsored by the Crescent City Coin Club, member The American Numismatic Association. United States Coins of the 20th Century, written and presented by Eric Leonard. Excellent companion site to U.S. Mint site.
http://www.rrcoins.net/20th.htm
SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATION RESOURCE DIRECTORY, a convenient way to find NASA space science products for use in classrooms, science museums, planetariums, and other settings. The Space Science Education Resource Directory provides educators an entry point into the wealth of educational materials funded by NASA's Office of Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program.
http://teachspacescience.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/ssrtop.cgi
TELEVISION COMMERCIALS.COM has a database with over 30,000 television commercials. Also: classic commercials from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
http://www.televisioncommercials.com/
U.S. MINT: site gives specifications for U.S. Mint legal tender coins presently in circulation. It gives content for the Obverse and Reverse sides; date of issue; designers; designers' initials; composition; weight; diameter; composition; edge (reeded or plain) and number of reeds.
http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/index.cfm?action=coin_specifications
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