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Table of Contents

24 September 1998

In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day
2. Weird Facts of the Day
3. Quote of the Day
4. HotSite
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1. A Word A Day

tattersall also Tattersall (TAT-uhr-sawl, -suhl) noun
1. A pattern of dark lines forming squares on a light background.
2. Cloth woven or printed with this pattern.
tattersall adjective
Having a pattern of dark lines forming squares on a light background.
[After Tattersall's horse market, London, England after Richard Tattersall
(1724-1795), British auctioneer.]
"Patterns include traditional windowpane, tattersall, glen plaid,
bird's-eye, and herringbone. And, in what is a radical departure for this
master of modern tailoring, there is a return to structure."
Hochswender, Woody, Armani Classico, Esquire, 1 Feb 1996.

This weeks's theme: eponyms.

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2. Weird Facts of the Day

--During the Cambrian period, about 500 million
years ago, a day was only 20.6 hours long.

--Since the 1960s the speed of computers has increased
by a factor of about one million. At the same time,
the cost has decreased by a factor of about 20,000.

--Even though the tail of a comet can extend to great
lenghts — greater even than the distance from the Earth
to the sun — there is so little matter contained in the
tail that it could fit into an ordinary suitcase.

--Light from the sun reaches Earth in about eight minutes.
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3. Quote of the Day -- What Do women Want?

What Do Women Want?
by Kim Addonizio

I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their cafe, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they'll bury me in.

Kim Addonizio
Copyright © 1997
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4. HotSite -- Mr. Football

Do you play fansty football? Improve
your team and pick all the winners
with Mr. Football's help.

http://www.mrfootball.com/

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Table of Contents

23 September 1998

In Today's Issue
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1. A Word A Day
2. Quote of the Day -- Dowd
3. Cool Fact of the Day
4. On This Day . . . 23 September
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1. A Word A Day

titian (TISH-uhn) noun
Color. A brownish orange.
[After Titian (from his frequent use of the color in his paintings).
Originally Tiziano Vecellio. 1488?-1576. Italian painter who introduced
vigorous colors and the compositional use of backgrounds to the Venetian
school.]
"The vivacious, beautiful, titian-haired Garson was a class act all the
way."
The best of vivacious Greer Garson and low-key Ben Johnson,
Star Tribune, 23 Apr 1996.
This weeks's theme: eponyms.

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2. Quote of the Day -- Dowd

Confessions of a Sex Addict

By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON -- He couldn't stop thinking about
the thong underwear. He couldn't believe Monica
had pulled up her jacket to show it off. It so
inflamed his imagination. At meetings, at briefings,
at the most unlikely times, his mind suddenly reverted
to the image of those straps, quickening his pulse,
making him catch his breath.

But it was the cigar that undid him. He was driven
by the thought of what had been done with it.
Suddenly the capital became a city of cigars.
He saw them wherever he went. They ignited his
desire. When he was alone or talking to other
people, he took secret pleasure in letting smoke
rings drift through his mind.

There were times when he worried that he might
be a sex addict. He couldn't stop thinking of
Monica: what she wore, when she wore it,
where she wore it, or didn't wear it. Her
little letters were so brazen, promising such
wild pleasure. Everything she scribbled, every gift she
gave, mesmerized him.

And then there was the power of her voice over him.
He knew that he was entering the dangerous territory
of obsession. No matter how much he heard Monica
talk about sex, it was never enough.

He was a busy man. A powerful man. A serious man.
But there were times when all he could remember
were the sizzling phone conversations. They filled
his head like a drug. People warned him that he was
endangering his legacy. Friends and strangers tried
to pull him back from the brink of his single-mindedness.
But it was too late.

He had become the helpless victim of his cravings for ecstasy.

The big picture was lost. He hungered only for the details,
all the stirring and seamy particulars. Nothing was too small
or insignificant for him to consider, to turn over and over
in his unappeasable mind.

He wanted to think about her eating cherry chocolates.
He imagined her wrapped up like Cleopatra in the Rockettes
blanket or panting in that Black Dog T-shirt. He kept
seeing her in that blue Gap dress. It was too tight, and
he was glad. Again and again he was visited by images of
a man's roving lips. He knew it was wrong. But he liked
to dip into sin. He needed a release from all the pressure,
from the extraordinary responsibilities of a very public man.

When he went to church on Sundays, he wrestled with his
conscience. He even wondered if he needed professional help.

Sometimes he worried that he was abusing his power and
hurting the country. He even fretted that the Constitution
itself might be damaged by his obsession.

And sometimes it wasn't easy to behold all the human
damage that he already had caused: ruining a young woman's
life, dragging all sorts of people through the muck,
wounding reputations and bankrupting those who came near
him. Would the Presidency survive his lust? It didn't matter.

Every time he heard those words -- inappropriate intimate
contact, sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form,
arousing or gratifying as defined in definition 1
-- he felt a fire burn.

He had his own definition of sex. Still, he was drawn
to the endless discussion of the existential meaning
of sex -- its forms, its uses. He was a lawyer, but this
was not just tortured legalism. This lurid definition
over and over and over again, gaining pleasure from
repetition: "breasts," "genitalia," "inserted," "stain."

His acolytes and subordinates became agents of
shamelessness. It seemed that everyone around him,
everyone in the city, everyone in the country, was
talking about what he wanted to hear. All of them
had become his collaborators in perversity. He was
spending millions and millions of dollars to drag
an entire nation down to his twisted level.

He knew how strong he was. He was the most powerful
man in the land. He could reach into every recess of
the Government to satisfy himself. And the prospect
of impeachment didn't frighten him.

In fact, the more he fixated on the strap of that thong,
the more certain he was that he could hang Bill Clinton
with it. And, of all those naughty words he loved to hear,
none filled him with more pleasure than "impeachment."

After all, nobody could impeach him. He was Ken Starr.

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3. Cool Fact of the Day

Ketchup Origins

The original ketchup, or ke-tsiap, was created in the Orient. It was
a tangy sauce of pickled fish, shellfish, and spices, which was used
on fish.

In the early 1700's, English sailors discovered it in Malaya, and
brought it back to England. But the unusual ingredients were hard
to find, so there were many variations, using flavors like walnut,
anchovy, lemon, or even tomatoes!

In 1792, a book called The New Art of Cookery introduced a
sauce called "tomato catsup," but it was hard to make. Then in
1876, Henry J. Heinz began mass-producing the stuff, and the red
sauce caught on in a big way.

More about ketchup:
http://heart.engr.csulb.edu/~frederic/Ketchup/index.html
http://www1.epicurious.com/db/dictionary/terms/k/ketchup.html
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4. On This Day . . . 23 September

Birthdates which occurred on September 23:

63 -BC- Octavian (Augustus C‘sar) 1st Roman emperor (27 BC-14 AD)
484 -BC- Euripides Greek playwright (Trojan Women)

1713 Ferdinand VI king of Spain (1746-59)
1920 Mickey Rooney Bkln NY, actor (Bill, Andy Hardy, Sugar Babies)
1926 John Coltrane saxophonist (Round Midnight)
1930 Ray Charles Albany Ga, singer/pianist (Georgia)
1943 Julio Iglesias singer (Of All the Girls I Loved Before)
1949 Bruce Springsteen [Boss], Asbury NJ, rock musician (Born in the USA)
1967 Harry Connick Jr singer (We Are in Love)

On this day...

1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
1779 John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats 'HMS Serepis'
1806 Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from the Pacific Northwest
1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)
1926 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title
1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel

WORLDWIDE HISTORIC DATES & EVENTS brought to you DAILY by : Scope Systems

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Table of Contents

18 September 1998

In Today's Issue
1. AWAD -- tussie-mussie
2. HotSites -- Astronautics & Astronomy
3. Quote of the Day -- Billy Collins
4. Cool Fact of the Day --Tomatoes are edible!

1. A Word A Day

tussie-mussie (TUS-ee-MUS-ee) or tuzzy-muzzy (TUZ-ee-MUZ-ee) noun

1. A small bouquet of flowers; a nosegay.

2. A cone-shaped holder for such a bouquet.

[Middle English tussemose, perhaps reduplication of *tusse.]

"A woman also had to be pretty precise about where she wore flowers. Say,
for instance, a suitor had sent her a tussie-mussie (a k a nosegay). If
she pinned it to the `cleavage of bosom,' that would be bad news for him,
since that signified friendship. Ah, but if she pinned it over her heart,
`That was an unambiguous declaration of love.'"
Meadow, James B., Rocky Mountain News, 26 Jan 1998
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2. HotSites -- Astronautics & Astronomy

The NASA homepage
URL: http://www.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html

The Nine planets: a multimedia tour of the solar system
URL: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/

Views of the solar system
URL: http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/

StarWorlds--astronomy and related organizations
URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/sfworlds.htm
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3. Quote of the Day -- Billy Collins

Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

Copyright © 1988 by Billy Collins.
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4. Cool Fact of the Day --Tomatoes are edible!

Not Poisonous

Because they are closely related to deadly nightshade, tomatoes
were once thought to be poisonous!

Spanish explorers first brought tomatoes to Europe from Central
America. In Italy and Spain, they were accepted and eaten, but in
northern Europe and the colonies, they were grown only for
decoration. In 1820, the state of New York even passed a law
banning their consumption!

The truth was finally revealed on September 26, 1830, when
Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson consumed an entire bag of
tomatoes before a shocked crowd on the steps of the courthouse
in Salem, New York.

More about tomatoes, their history, and how to cook with them:
http://www.cucina.italynet.com/vegetali/inglese/dati/16.htm
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Table of Contents

14 September 1998

In Today's Issue
1. QOTD -- Gibbs
2. HotSites -- Searching with a purpose: northernlight.com
3. AWAD -- filiation

1. Quote of the Day -- Gibbs

And so on Friday, in the breathtaking opening
arguments from both sides, the combatants
placed before us a choice between core values:
between privacy, which has become so fragile,
and morality, which has become so debased.
Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton, hunter and quarry,
one wielding his scorching flashlight, the other
his anointed cigar: Which troubles people more?

--NANCY GIBBS, form We, The Jury from Time.com

Full Story:
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980921/cover1.html

Time.com: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/

2. HotSite -- northernlight.com

New and different and very intuitive search
engine. Try it. You'll like it.
northernlight.com

3. AWAD -- filiation

filiation (fil-ee-AY-shuhn) noun

1. The condition or fact of being the child of a certain parent.
Law. Judicial determination of paternity.

2. A line of descent; derivation.

3. The act or fact of forming a new branch, as of a society or language
group. The branch thus formed.

"Although the filiation may seem distant, my book is at heart an
exposition of an old Chicago concept."
Abbott, Andrew, Of time and space: the contemporary relevance of the

Chicago School. (Chicago school of sociology), Social Forces, 1 Jun 1997.

Table of Contents

10 September 1998

In Today's Issue
1. QOTD -- Hang in There, Wm. Safire
2. HotSites -- newsday.com
3. AWAD -- criminate

1. Quote of the Day -- Hang in There, Safire

Nervous-Nellie candidates, hand-wringing opinionmongers and parents doing a national slow burn should stop calling on President Clinton to resign. Quitting under 36 boxes of evidence is not The American Way.

Nor is it in Bill Clinton's character. The most authentic moment of his Presidency was his defiant assertion last month of wrongdoing and victimhood. With no phony lip-biting or spurious apology, he delivered his essential message: I regret that I was caught, but it's my private life so get over it.
By WILLIAM SAFIRE, "Hang in There" NY Times, 10 September 1998

Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/10safi.html

2. HotSite -- newsday.com

Hot off the AP wire news about Clinton, though on some days it's about Washington in genral.

http://www.newsday.com/ap/washingt.htm

3. A Word A Day

criminate (KRIM-uh-nayt) tr.verb

1. To accuse of a crime or other wrongful act; incriminate

2. To cause to appear guilty of a crime or fault; implicate

[Latin criminari, criminat-, to accuse, from crimen, crimin-, accusation.]

"She (Anne Askew) came to London, and was considered as offending against
the six articles, and was taken to the Tower, and put upon the rack, -
probably because it was hoped she might, in her agony, criminate some
obnoxious persons; if falsely, so much the better."
Dickens, Charles, A Child's History Of England: Chapter XXVIII.
England Under Henry The Eighth., History of the World.

This week's theme: words with synonyms that appear like their antonyms.

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07 September 1998

In Today's Issue
1. QOTD -- BONNIE BLOWS CLINTON
2. HotSites -- Starting Point
3. AWAD -- involution

1. Quote of the Day -- Bonnie Blows Clinton

The following if from a Computer-assisted Reporting
& Research mailing list, CARR, to which I subscribe:
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 22:33:35 -0500
Reply-To: Computer-assisted Reporting & Research
<CARR-L@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU>
From: "Staci D. Kramer" <sdk@CRIS.COM>
Subject: Re: Recent Headline
To: CARR-L@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU

At 10:02 PM 9/6/98 -0500, Peter wrote:
> To add to the recent thread about headlines, I have been told by a
>usually reliable source that in the town of Clinton, North Carolina (just
>east of Fayetteville), last week the headline to the story about the
>hurricane passing through was:
> Bonnie Blows Clinton
>
> Can anyone substantiate this?

Yep. I searched for the headline in a database and found a story about the
headline from the Durham N.C. Herald-Sun dated August 31, 1998.

Here are the first few graphs:

>>HEADLINE: Small town ponders presidential play on words
BYLINE: AL CARSON The Herald-Sun
BODY:

CLINTON -- When a small town shares its name with the president of the
United States, is that a big deal?

Not in this small Sampson County town -- until Thursday.

That's when the local newspaper in the farming community, which lies about
60 miles north of Wilmington, got the attention of its readers with its
banner headline in the afternoon edition -- "Bonnie blows Clinton."

A year, or even a couple of months ago, such a headline probably wouldn't
have raised many eyebrows. But with Monicagate playing out in Washington,
The Sampson Independent's headline seemed to jump off the page for some
locals.<<

Ah, the wonders of the Internet.

Staci D. Kramer
journalist based in St. Louis

2. HotSite -- Starting Point

http://www.stpt.com/
A goog "starting point" to explore what's online
in thirteen broad categories -- Business, Computing,
Entertainment, Health, Investing, Magazines, News,
Reference, Shopping, Sports, Travel, Weather

Women's View

3. A Word A Day -- involution

involution (in-vuh-LOO-shuhn) noun

1. The act of involving. The state of being involved.

2. Intricacy; complexity.

3. Something, such as a long grammatical construction, that is intricate
or complex.

4. Mathematics. The multiplying of a quantity by itself a specified number
of times; the raising to a power.

5. Embryology. The ingrowth and curling inward of a group of cells, as in
the formation of a gastrula from a blastula.

6. Medicine. A decrease in size of an organ, as of the uterus following
childbirth. A progressive decline or degeneration of normal
physiological functioning occurring as a result of the aging process.

[Latin involutio, involution-, from involutus, past participle of involvere,
to enwrap.]

"While mainstream America was engaged in expansion and evolution into a
bigger and bigger country, Thoreau was advocating its opposite:
involution and introspection. An untypical Yankee, he preferred to be
rather than do. He chose a life of contemplation over frenzied activity,
or the Saint Vitus' dance, as he derisively put it. He did not want to
become a slave to an economy that would atrophy his spiritual life."
Lakshmimani, A Confluence of the Ganga and Walden, Little India,
30 Sep 1994.

Table of Contents

03 September 1998

In Today's Issue
1. A Word A Day
2. HotSites -- Total News
3. QOTD -- T.S. Eliot

1. A Word A Day

Professions of yesterday that now exist only as surnames:

wheel.wright n. A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and
wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.

Lossing, Benson J., LL.D., Our Country: Volume 2: Chapter XXVI., U.S.
History, 09-01-1990.
"He proceeded to execute his vow by murdering an unoffending Dutchman in

his wheelwright shop high upon Manhattan Island."

bow.yer n. [From Bow, like lawyer from law.] 1. An archer; one who uses bow.
2. One who makes or sells bows.

Robyn Jackson, Mississippian Makes Bows the Old-fashioned Way -- by Hand.,
Gannett News Service, 09-02-1994.
"Ladner, assistant principal at Petal Middle School in Petal, Miss., is a
bowyer, a man who makes bows and arrows the traditional way."
coop.er n. [From Coop.] One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.

coop.er v.t. [imp. & p. p. Coopered; p. pr. & vb. n. Coopering.] To do the
work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.

coop.er n. Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks,
etc.; the business of a cooper.

saw.yer n. [Saw + -yer, as in lawyer. Cf. Sawer.]

1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw
wood for fuel; a sawer.

2. A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above
the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the
current. [U.S.]

3. (Zovl.) The bowfin. [Local, U.S.]

tink.er n. [From Tink, because the tinker's way of proclaiming his trade is to
beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a tinkling noise. Johnson.]

1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
"Tailors and tinkers." -Piers Plowman.

2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

3. (Ordnance) A small mortar on the end of a staff.

4. (Zool.) (a) A young mackerel about two years old. (b) The chub mackerel.
(c) The silversides. (d) A skate. [Prov. Eng.]

5. (Zool.) The razor-billed auk.

tink.er v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinkered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinkering.] To mend or
solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.

tink.er v. i. To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play
the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.

Comedies of William Shakespeare: The Taming Of The Shrew: Act 1., Monarch
Notes, 01-01-1963.
"This scene takes place before an alehouse on a heath. The hostess of the
alehouse enters with Christopher Sly, a tinker who is obviously drunk, and
demands payment for the glasses that Sly has broken."
--
A Word A Day, from http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

2. HotSite -- Total News

http://www.totalnews.com/

Very useful site which, aside from a rather
complete directory of news links, maintains
a news search engine. For example, I plugged
in "volcano" and 719 online articles from various
newspapers, magazines, etc. were listed.

The query "lewinsky" returned 13,246 hits. ;)

3. Quote of the Day -- T. S. Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

--T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Table of Contents

01September98

In Today's Issue
1. A Word A Day
2. This Day in History -- 1 September 1864
3. HotSites -- mp3, et al

1. A Word A Day

pantaloon (pan-tuh-LOON) noun

1. Men's wide breeches extending from waist to ankle, worn especially in
England in the late 17th century. Often used in the plural. Tight
trousers extending from waist to ankle with straps passing under the
instep, worn especially in the 19th century. Often used in the plural.

2. Trousers; pants. Often used in the plural.

[French pantalon, a kind of trouser, from Pantalon. See Pantaloon.]

Pantaloon (PAN-tuh-loon) noun

1. Often Pantalone (pant-lona, panta-lone). A character in the commedia
dell'arte, portrayed as a foolish old man in tight trousers and
slippers.

2. A stock character in modern pantomine, the butt of a clown's jokes.

[French Pantalon, from Italian Pantaloneafter San Pantalone, or Saint
Pantaleon (died A.D. 303), Roman physician and martyr.]

"When dressed in long gowns or pantaloon outfits of water-soaked dry
husks, and given shoe-button eyes and long hair of cornsilk--blond at the
base, brunette at the dry ends--they (cobs) make adorable boy or girl
dolls just like little the ones pioneer children played with..."
Vivian, John, Growing wild: take your home place (almost) all the way
back to nature.(Home Landscaping Part 1), Mother Earth News, 10 Dec 1997.
--
A Word A Day, from http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

2. This Day in History -- 1 September 1864

Atlanta is ours and fairly won.
--Telegram from Union General William T. Sherman
to President Abraham Lincoln, September 1, 1864.

On September 1, 1864, Confederate General John B. Hood
evacuated Atlanta, leaving the city, which had become a
crucial supply center for the Confederacy, in Union hands.
Sherman's victory helped ensure Lincoln's reelection two
months later. Union General William T. Sherman had begun
advancing toward Atlanta on May 5, 1864, with 110,000
men. By July 6, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston,
who was defending the city with half as many men, had
retreated south of the Chattahoochee River onto Peachtree
Creek.

Confederate General John B. Hood relieved Johnston and
attacked Sherman on July 20, but was forced to retreat with
a large number of casualties. By August 31, Sherman had
crossed Hood's supply line, forcing him to evacuate the
city the following day. Hood then moved toward Nashville,
where he was eventually defeated, and his army destroyed,
by General George H. Thomas.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html
--
Today in History, from http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

3. HotSites -- mp3, et alli

mp3.com

Music moguls are shaking in their Gucci's.
Mp3 is a new compression technology which allows
music to be download, stored and played on your computer.
The quality of the sound is indistinguishable form CDs.

Go to mp3.com, snoop around for awhile, download a freeware
player, and you're in business. The site also has scores of selections
of legally downloadable recordings of musicians who see this new
technology as a way to get their sound out to the masses without a
record label contract. Trouble is, if you plug mp3 in any search engine
worth its salt, it will return scores of sites from which you can download,
illegally, most of the world's copyrighted music.

http://www.mp3.com

A Journey of the Heart -- A Land of War
--by Paula Bock

The story of civil war in Burma, Dr. Cynthia Maung's unending
giving, and the orchid girls. Paula Bock's story and its presentation
evidence the "best use" of the internet.

Excerpt:
"ON THE BORDER, there are times when it seems like nothing can
be done; the war will never end; the orchid girls have disappeared
forever. In these dark moments, it is a comfort to know Dr. Cynthia.
She somehow rises above the violence and misery and hopelessness
around her, carrying on with her work, doing what the rest of us
cannot. Day after day, she helps people."

http://www.seattletimes.com/burma/tunnel2.html
--
This HotSite submitted by subscriber Renee Rasha

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