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Monthly Archives: March 2011
College Eating
Food (unfortunately for my girth) is one of my favorite topics. I owe my faithful reader (s?) a post on the subject of college food, from the Very Hungry Caterpillar post below. College is an odd time for the culinary … Continue reading
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New York Public Library 100 years ago.
This really nice engraving comes from Slate, the online magazine where Author David Freeman looks at the New York Times Magazine. Warner still gets the magazine along with the NY Times newspaper. What a massive library that is.
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2011 Children Book Award Winners
Our Library just completed its annual tradition of buying copies of the winners of various Children Book Awards. Several interest me, the Jimi Hendrix book, “Heart of a Samurai” and Lafayette and the American Revolution”. They all look like fun … Continue reading
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day
I apologize for missing this very important date (21MAR11), The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day. The book has been around since 1969. Oddly, it does not look dated. The color is riotously bright, and I like the holes literally bored into … Continue reading
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Two Countries Separated By The Same Language*
Interesting article about English language pronunciation. I did not know that there were so many differences in the way English words are pronounced.i knew a few of these, patriot and semi were new to me. According to the article, Americans … Continue reading
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Japan: Before and After
This is an amazing way to look at the destruction of the earthquake in Japan with before and after pictures. Just move your cursor over the photographs. This is from ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation not the American network. If … Continue reading
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Prezi, the new and (mostly) free Power Point
Back in the dark ages of the 1970′s, teachers would sometimes show students film strips in class. Film strips were, um, strips of film shown through a projector that was ether automated and hand cranked with sound cues (Christopher Columbus … Continue reading
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Alexandra Approves (Issue 2)
Wow! I am sorry it has been so long without another Alexandra Approves! I have been recently been battling an illness and busy-ness of schedule. (Aren’t we all?) First up on the docket tonight (one of my newest purchases, and … Continue reading
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The Lord Of The Rings, from the other side…
The Greek philosopher Protagorus said that there are two sides to every question. I am not so sure about that myself, but then I would have never thought that there would be two sides to the Lord Of The Rings … Continue reading
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To Keep You Informed…
There are some truly awful books out there in the world. And by “awful”, I mean awfully hilarious. Take a gander here. *Also, we do not have this book, but you can find it through Inter-Library Loan. (It does not … Continue reading
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