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Book Report due tomorrow...Here's what I wrote in response:
...that I haven't started for the same reason everyone else last-minutes homework. Anyway, I don't want this done for me, I just need some information on the book (Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi) so that I can write a decent sized summary. Thanks, for any and all help.
Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi has a story about a girl who was alive in 1859 during the battle of Harper's Ferry and wrote down her experiences in her diary. A hundred years later, the book is discovered by a young boy living during the Cold War, who reflects on her story and its relevance to his own life.I decided to post it here because I have no idea if the mods will delete it, and I just spent a good twenty minutes of my life working on it.
Rinaldi uses both historical and fantastical elements to weave her story about family love, religion, patriotism, and guilt. The heroine, Annie Brown, was a real person, but Rinaldi embellishes on her life in order to make the story more like a historical fable. While her father is a deeply religious man, Annie has special abilities that she fears would cause her father to see her as a witch. The book's title is named for one of those abilities: She can remove her eyes and leave them, unnoticed, in small hiding spaces, giving her the ability to spy on the political activities that are going on around her. It is while she is spying on a meeting that she discovers her father is involved in guerilla actions against the Union, and Annie is torn between her loyalty to her country, and her love of her father. The battle of Harper's Ferry itself almost destroys both, and she regrets until her death that she did nothing.
The parallels to the boy, whose name is Frank, are obvious. Frank is living during the Cold War, and suspects that his parents are secret communists. Although Frank is not able to remove his own eyes from the sockets and put them onto bookshelves in order to spy on others, he does have the uncanny ability to talk to fruit flies--mutated during the series of nuclear tests taking place in his state--who tell him that his mother and father speak Russian and read books that have pictures of Russian leaders on them. Frank is not sure, however, if he is being told the truth; after all, fruit flies cannot speak and so they have no way to know whether it's really Russian or is in fact just normal English spoken after slightly one two many vodkas. They also are not very good at facial recognition.
Frank realizes the lesson of Annie's life and takes action, however. Instead of being paralyzed by his inability to choose between his parents and his country, which he knows will lead to the eventual loss of both, he decides to pick his country. He turns in his parents to the authorities, and they are arrested for being spies. It's then that he finds out his legal name is is in fact Fedor. However, he is now comfortable in his loyalty to his country and is able to deal with this revelation.
The moral of the book is that when our loyalties are divided we must choose according to what we think is right, and that standing by and doing nothing is never going to have good results. However, if we act with conviction we will have some control over our fate and become stronger as people.
(I hope that helps. I don't mind if you just copy and paste it.)


Paris Exhibition of 1899
at Library of Congress
"[T]he true tales of a Victorian aristocratic couple, one a millionaire's daughter and the other a Hungarian count, sailing their yacht for adventure on the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The couple, Eila Haggin and Rudolph Festetics de Tolna, met in Paris in the early 1890s. They married in 1892 in New York, and began their adventure in 1893 aboard their luxury yacht, the Tolna, a gift from Eila's parents. They sailed from San Francisco to Australia, up to Japan and back down to Singapore, and westwards to the Indian Ocean, stopping at many known and unknown islands along the way. In their travels, they encountered cannibals, Pacific Islanders, Germans, British, and Americans - some of these groups more dangerous than others. They also visited Robert Louis Stevenson and tried to enter Manila at the beginning of the Spanish-American war. The fascinating exploits of this couple were followed by the newspapers in the Pacific and the United States. This book contains transcriptions of the many sensationalist articles, along with excerpts from Eila's diaries, and translations of Rudolph's books about their five year journey." by Ron S. Filion.
Chez Les Cannibales...Festetics
A Directory for the Navigation
of the South Pacific Ocean...Findlay
Digital color maps of journey:
An Index to the
Islands of the Pacific Ocean...Brigham
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
The Solomon Islands...Guppy
Eaten by Cannibals can be purchased via the web at:
Vers L'ecueil De Minicoy...Festetics
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Various resources related to the book:
The West Coast of Hindustan Pilot...Taylor
Eaten by Cannibals was reviewed by Stockton's newspaper, The Record :
Eaten by Cannibals by Ron S. Filion.
The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA


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Wordland is ostensibly a film about the eroding east coast of England and the effects of floods on this area, particularly the well-known and devastating flood of 1953. Filmed in and around the small villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, Coyâ€™s film combines interviews, field recordings, archive footage and a specially commissioned sound score from musician, Alexander Tucker.
Wordland takes the apparently antipathetic forms and techniques of documentary filmmaking, montage film and structural film, and collapses them into one another. Drawing on the history of, in particular, British experimental film, Coyâ€™s digitally produced film presents something like an elegy for the ambition of different experimental film practices. As documentary elements give way to structural elements his playful juxtapositions of processes and imagery produce a romantic portrait of loss. But this romanticism is consistently tempered and undermined by the fact that an analogue medium is being mourned digitally.
The work has two very particular reference points: a painting, The Last of England (1855) by Ford Maddox Brown, and the 1988 film of the same name by Derek Jarman. Each of which conjured up romantic, apocalyptic visions of England. Coyâ€™s film also depicts an island under siege, but the island of Wordland, and the filmâ€™s polemic, is less culturally and politically specific. Wordland is threatened, not by the arcane social policy of governments, but by the deterioration of celluloid, the erosion of land with its arbitrary boundaries and the fragmented memories and language of its inhabitants.
With distinct melancholic notes the film opens with long establishing shots of the sea gently lapping the shores of North Norfolk. Gradually shots of the land are introduced, and before long voices emerge out of the slowly building sound score. Through the use of intertitles and isolated words and phrases that simultaneously refer to the erosion of the coast and to the language of filmmaking, Wordland builds a distinct narrative by combining non-linear editing with a form of cut-up poetics. Tuckerâ€™s sound score similarly uses drones, cut-up and layered vocals, and fractured song structures. His simultaneously bucolic and unsettling composition blends the musical genres of doom metal and folk. The pastoral themes and atmosphere evoked by Tuckerâ€™s score and his structural approach to musical composition relate closely to Coyâ€™s own themes and working methods.
The film premiered at a special event co-organised with LUX at the Arcola theatre featuring a live soundtrack by Tucker, before being screened at an exhibition at City Projectsâ€™ space. There were Further presentations in Norwich and North Norfolk.
Funded by Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust
Supported by East Anglian Film Archive, LUX, Mites


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In 1547 he joined the Order of the Garter. Not sure about the geography of the middle east? After Henry's death, he fell out of favor with Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley was executed for conspiring with Henry Grey to have Grey's daughter, Lady Jane Grey, marry King Edward VI of England.
He became 3d marquess of Dorset on his father's death (1530), and in 1534 he married Frances, daughter of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, and Mary of England (sister of Henry VIII). Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Henry_Grey,_1st_Duke_of_Suffolk?oldid=230523. Henry Grey was created Duke of Suffolk jure uxoris on 11 October 1551, in the same ceremony that elevated John Dudley to the Dukedom of Northumberland. Omissions?
He was also father of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for nine days, and he was executed for being her father.
The son of Thomas Grey, 2nd marquess of Dorset, he succeeded to the marquessate in 1530 and, in 1534, with the approval of King Henry VIII, married Frances Brandon, who would be the sole surviving heiress of the 1st duke of Suffolk in the Brandon line. En tant que chevalier du Bain, il porte l'épée du roi au couronnement d'Anne Boleyn, en 1533, à l'arrivée d'Anne de Clèves en 1540, et à la reddition de Boulogne en 1545. ), Volumes 1-4 FHL microfilm 164,680; volume 5 FHL mi., vol. In 1533, with the permission of King Henry VIII he married Lady Frances Brandon (1517–1559), the daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk by his wife Mary Tudor, the sister of King Henry VIII. After Henry VIII's death in 1547, Grey fell out of favour with the leader of King Edward VI's government, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector of England. Attributed to an unknown Flemish painter. Édouard meurt le 6 juillet 1553 et, trois jours après, Suffolk, Northumberland et les autres membres du Conseil privé proclament Jeanne reine. In July 1551 his wife's younger half-brother, Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, died. He is credited with making Leicestershire one of the most reliably Protestant counties in early modern England. ♂ Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk birth: 17 January 1517 title: from -, Герцог Суффолк marriage : ♀ Frances Brandon death: 23 February 1554 ♂ Henry Fitzalan [S6] G.E. National Library of Wales manuscript number 4517. & W. Robins, 1847), FHL book Q 942.575 H2Li; FHL microfilms 990,261-99., vol. The Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger dedicated a book to him in 1551 and frequently corresponded with the family. & E.C. Arundel had been imprisoned earlier by Northumberland for having sided with the previous Protector, Somerset, but it is not clear why Pembroke revolted; especially since his son and heir, Henry Herbert, having married Henry Grey's other daughter, Catherine, the same day as Jane's wedding.
 This proclamation failed; not by a large-scale rallying of forces in the country to Henry VIII's eldest daughter, the future Queen Mary I, as is often thought, but by a wavering Privy Council switching its allegiance to Mary during Northumberland's absence on campaign against her. ?-1530) Below 16 Years (13), Thomas Lord Grey van Groby Markgraaf van Dorset, Margaretha Wotton, Catharina Fitz-Alan Stuart, Frances Brandon, Feb 23 1555 - Tower Hill, London, England, Jan 17 1517 - Dorset House, Westminster, England, Great Britain, Feb 23 1554 - Northumberland, England, Great Britain, Edward Grey, Mary Grey, Catherine Grey, Anne Grey, Leonard Grey, Thomas Grey, John Grey, Thomas Grey, John Grey, Elizabeth Grey, Thomas Grey, George Medley, Jan 17 1517 - Dorset House, Westminster, England, John Grey, Edward Grey, Mary Grey, Catherine Grey, Leonard Grey, Thomas Grey, Catherine Fitzalan, Frances Brandon (Grey), ...d) Grey, Daughter (Child) Grey, Jane (Lady)(9 Days Queen) Grey (DUDLEY), Catherine (Lady) Grey (HERBERT) (SEYMOUR), Mary (Lady) Grey (KEYES), Elizabeth Grey, Lady Catherine Grey, Lady Anne Grey, Margaret Wotton Marchioness of Dorset,Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess of Dorset, Lady Jane Grey, Lady Katherine Grey, Lady Mary Grey, Bradgate Park, Charwood Forest, Leicestershire, England, Bradgate Park, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, England, Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower Hill, London, England, People executed on order of English monarchs, Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England (disputed), Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford. The head was examined in the late 19th century by Sir George Scharf, former Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery, who noted a strong resemblance between its features and those in the portrait of the duke then in the possession of the Marquess of Salisbury at Hatfield. Grey joined the Council as a part of this group.
They had three daughters: Henry Grey became the 3rd Marquess of Dorset in 1530 following the death of his father. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume IV, page 419.
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Infoplease is part of the FEN Learning family of educational and reference sites for parents, teachers and students. He was the father of Lady Jane Grey, known as "the Nine Days' Queen". Très malade, et voyant sa fin proche, Édouard VI accepte la demande de Northumberland d'unir la fille de Suffolk, Jeanne au fils de Northumberland, Guilford Dudley, le 15 mai 1553. We've got you covered with our map collection.
Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.


The Display Object 2 command provides a subfile display of one or
more objects. The display format is similar to WRKOBJ, but supports
only a single option 5=Display. This invokes the TAA DSPOBJD2
command which provides other display options such as DSPOBJAUT and
the F8 option which changes based on the object type to allow a
display of additional details. The QGYOLOBJ and QGYGTLE APIs are
The advantage of DSPOBJ2 is that only 'display' functions are
provided for users who need a general object display, but should not
be authorized to change functions.
DSPOBJ2 is also helpful for a quick review of what exists by library,
by object type, by generic name, etc.
A typical command would be:
All objects starting with the generic name on the library list would
Option 5 may be used for the DSPOBJD2 command. This will display
high level details of the object. F8 may be used to display further
information about the specific object type.
DSPOBJ2 escape messages you can monitor for
None. Escape messages from based on functions will be re-sent.
DSPOBJ2 Command parameters *CMD
OBJ The qualified name of the object to be displayed. A
generic name may be entered.
The library value defaults to *LIBL. A specific
library or *CURLIB may also be used.
OBJTYPE A list of up to 300 object types to be displayed.
The default is *ALL. For a list of the specific
values, use the prompter.
ASPDEV Specifies the auxiliary storage pool (ASP) device
name where storage for the library containing the
object is allocated. If the library resides in an
ASP that is not part of the thread's library name
space, this parameter must be specified to ensure
the correct library is searched. If this parameter
is used when the library qualifier specified for the
Object prompt (OBJ parameter) is *CURLIB, *LIBL, or
*USRLIBL, ASPDEV(*) is the only valid value.
This parameter can be specified as a list of two
values (elements) or as a single value. The
possible single values are:
* = The ASPs that are currently part of the thread's
library name space will be searched to locate the
library. This includes the system ASP (ASP 1), all
defined basic user ASPs (ASPs 2-32), and, if the
thread has an ASP group, the primary and secondary
ASPs in the thread's ASP group.
*ALLAVL = All available ASPs will be searched. This
includes the system ASP (ASP 1), all defined basic
user ASPs (ASPs 2-32), and all available primary and
secondary ASPs, (ASPs 33-255) with a status of
*CURASPGRP = If the thread has an ASP group, the
primary and secondary ASPs in the thread's ASP group
will be searched to locate the library. The system
ASP (ASP 1) and defined basic user ASPs (ASPs 2-32)
will not be searched. If no ASP group is associated
with the thread, an error will be issued.
*SYSBAS = The system ASP (ASP 1) and all defined
basic user ASPs (ASPs 2-32) will be searched to
locate the library. No primary or secondary ASPs
will be searched even if the thread has an ASP
ASP Device name. The device name of the primary or
secondary ASP to be searched. The primary or
secondary ASP must have been activated (by varying
on the ASP device) and have a status of 'Available'.
The system ASP (ASP 1) and defined user basic ASPs
(ASPs 2-32) will not be searched.
Element 2: Search type. Specifies that only the
*ASP = Specifies that only the single auxiliary
storage pool (ASP) device named in element 1 is to
*ASPGRP = Specifies that the entire group of the
primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP) device named in
element 1 is to be searched.
The following TAA Tools must be on your system:
ADJVAR Adjust variable
CHKALLOBJ Check *ALLOBJ special authority
CHKOBJ3 Check object 3
DSPOBJD2 Display Object Description 2
RTVASPSTS Retrieve ASP status
RTVLCKEXCL Retrieve lock exclusive
SNDESCINF Send escape information
SNDESCMSG Send escape message
None, the tool is ready to use.
Objects used by the tool
Object Type Attribute Src member Src file
------ ---- --------- ---------- ----------
DSPOBJ2 *CMD TAAOBMP QATTCMD
TAAOBMPC *PGM CLP TAAOBMPC QATTCL
TAAOBMPC2 *PGM CLP TAAOBMPC2 QATTCL
TAAOBMPC3 *PGM CLP TAAOBMPC3 QATTCL
TAAOBMPR *PGM RPG TAAOBMPR QATTRPG
TAAOBMPR2 *PGM RPGLE TAAOBMPR2 QATTRPG
TAAOBMPD *FILE DSPF TAAOBMPD QATTDDS


Books are the very soul of knowledge. Even with the advent of technology in all our life phases, nothing can replace the learnings from books. They are the very landmarks of your teaching. Even when everything is replaced by the click of a button, the only thing that has changed with books is the way to access them(through online sources or e-readers like Kindle).
So when you’re thinking of launching a business, it would be recommended that you read some works of people who are accomplished in the field or possess the knowledge from the same. There is a list of must-read books before launching a business. And this technique has helped many business owners rise and understand the whereabouts of business.
One of the best ways to gain experience can be the learnings you get from other’s experiences and that’s exactly what great books accomplish. For the entrepreneur in you, here are the best books for startups that you must read.
Here are the best books for startups that you must read:
This book is one of the most prized possessions of every entrepreneur. This is because, in this book, the author walks you through the life of other founding entrepreneurs. The three hundred pages of the book provide an insight into the early challenges that the startups faced and what they had to go through to become what they are today. The entrepreneurs talk about the advice that these founders would like to give to others so that they don’t have to make the same mistakes that they did. The only thing that sets startups apart from other things is that there is no exact roadway to set up a startup. You just have to figure yourself out along the way. But with the help of this book, you’ll be able to go through many stories of startups and find your answers and cues about what to do when. Since it develops this insight, this forms as one of the best books for startups.
The 4-hour workweek is a great book that describes the ins and outs of entrepreneurial life. The books have the author describing how being your boss gives you the freedom to work even 4 hours a week at a point as opposed to the mundane 40 hours that a 9 to 5 job supports. In this book, the author shuns the idea of a regular job and explains the various benefits of being able to work from everywhere and being able to lead your life on your terms.
By this means, he thinks that it is the best thing to become an entrepreneur if you want to gain control of your life back. Corporate jobs often leave you despising everything you do and with a lack of time to do anything for yourself. But with a startup, you’ll be able to work without bounds and explore everything up to the fullest.
The book ‘Rework’ forms one of the must-read books before launching a business. It is because it reworks your thoughts about being an entrepreneur and allows you to change your perspective about entrepreneurial life. As an outsider to that field, we are often surrounded by myths. But this book will work its way to clear them all up. With it, the author explains why it is okay and even preferable to not have a plan while in a startup at all.
He also explains the reasons why you should refrain from allowing any outside investors in your business. With this, he explains how you can grow faster, and become more successful with your firm. It also sheds light on how it is okay to ignore the competition around you for a while and not succumb to it entirely. So, this becomes an awesome read for people who are looking for these answers.
Everyone knows that Warren Buffett is the ultimate man from whom you should learn how to invest and run a business. With Berkshire Hathaway being one of the top firms and Warren Buffett being a part of the world’s richest people almost every year, this book stores the treasures to get access to a man of great astute.
This book covers his stories and his learnings with his firms. Since Warren Buffett has not come up to tell a lot about it himself, it becomes the closest way to connect with him and find answers to the questions that you were looking for. With this, this book forms one of the best books for startups.
Founders at work do exactly what it seems like it does. The book stands to its name and helps you get direct insights from one of the greatest tech founders in the world. They cover stories of coveted brands and firms like Apple, PayPal, Hotmail, Flickr among other brands. Their founders explain how they stumbled upon the idea of executing the ideas that they did and how they dealt with issues that troubled them daily.
With this, you will be able to understand the development in the mind of an entrepreneur ever since the beginning of the story. With coveted firms like these, you will also be able to evaluate their current choices based on their humble beginnings.
There is no denying the fact that books truly open you up to a world that is beyond any imagination. You can’t possibly imagine getting the direct assistance of the types of Warren Buffet and Steve Jobs if it wasn’t for authors like these. Through their books, you’ll complete a journey that will help you to further disembark the journey of being an entrepreneur. These books, therefore, form to be the best books for startups and guide you along your way whenever you stumble through the hardships of creating something huge for yourself and society.
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Leap & Hop is a series of traveling books for children written by Isabelle Demenge, a mother of three, passionate about sharing her love of travel and the experience of different cultures with her family.
Isabelle wrote the first book, Leap & Hop Cambodia, for her children, niece and nephew, for their family trip in the temples of Angkhor in 2010. The lack of any book on the market addressed specifically to children embarked on a cultural trip in Cambodia triggered the project. The challenge was to find ways to engaged five children ranging from the ages of 3 and 8. The research took her from her initial idea of a prompted travel journal to a 100-page consumable book for kids thirsty for information and keen observer of new places but also interested in drawing and collecting things along the way. After two more such family books on Sri Lanka and Rajasthan, Isabelle teamed up with French illustrator Emilie Sarnel and Asiaone to deliver a total of 11 books in the series since March 2014 (including the redesigned original destinations) with the help of her three children (aka the "guinea pigs").
The series includes the following destinations: Bali, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India (Rajasthan), Mongolia, Myanmar, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.


The subcontinent is not an ordinary land. It is a land of diversity, wonder and magic. A place of myth, tradition and superstitions. It is a civilization colored in the richness of culture that is unique to others. It’s eccentricity makes it fascinating to the rest of the world. The subcontinent’s soil has produced men of high calibre, including the sufis, dervishes, yogis, pujaris, writers, poets and musicians who have played a significant role to bring a positive change in society.
While there are many languages and dialects native to the region, Urdu is one language that serves as a common denominator among all. The language shaped some great works of writing that evoked the collective conscience of people.
The first great poet hailing from the region was Amir Khusro. Even though he lived in the 14th century, his playful riddles, melodies and folklores have a lasting imprint today and are still used in popular culture of South Asia. He reformed metaphors and similes. To him the sun, for instance, would be the galloping deer, streams of fire or darts in the sky.
He also wrote on Hindu-Muslim unity and advocated religious and cultural pluralism. He wrote poetry in Persian as well as Bhojpuri, which came to be known as Hindi or Urdu today. The Khaliq Bari; an expression of stanza, comprising of Arabic, Persian and Hindi is often associated with him. He greatly improved the ghazal.
Khusro wrote more on a man’s spiritual conquest and his personal devotion to Nizamuddin Auliya. The core of his poetry is that one should not run after worldly possessions but rather, spend time in introspection to nourish the soul and the divine being within. He wrote many famous couplets like chaap tilak, zihaal-e-miskeen and sakal ban phool rahi sarson. ‘Chaap tilak’ being his magnum opus.
(You have snatched away all traces of me with one glance of your enchanting eyes.)
Ghalib used to write poems in Persian language, but he is renowned for his ghazals written in Urdu not only in India and Pakistan but also among the diaspora.. His flair in poetry flowered from an early age and his earlier ghazals carry the pain of love and separation but later he extended his vista. He used Urdu as a vehicle to express life’s pain and tragedy.
This made his poetry a masterpiece. Urdu was ornamental during this time; he made it fascinating by making it more informal. He composed humorous prose too. The letters written to his friends are a testimony to his unique sense of humour.In fact, modern Urdu is thankful to Mirza Ghalib. He made the language attractive and added life to it.
Ghalib placed great importance on seeking God rather than following the ceremonial religious practice. Ghalib’s best poems were written in three forms: ghazal (lyric), masnavi (moralistic and mystical parable) and qasidah (panegyric).
In today’s world, Ghalib’s poetry is revered and used in popular music. Here’s a couplet by him that has a direct impact on the heart.
While Ghalib’s poetry moves the heart, the following poet strikes the intellect. He played a huge part in inspiring the people of the subcontinent towards the liberation movement. We know him today as Allama Iqbal.
Iqbal is often viewed as the philosopher of the East. He wrote both in Persian and Urdu and communicated with the Muslim ummah, believing in the sufi concept of wahdat ul wujood andpromoted the concept of khudi, or selfhood, which stressed on self-realization and the exploration of hidden talent with compassion and determination. Beyond that lay the stage of complete submission, which he thought, was the ultimate stage of khudi.
His poetry emerged as a great station where message and art merged, as he re-configured major poetic devices like metaphor, allegory and symbol to revisit history, philosophy and Islamic faith to develop his individual vision. He left behind his collection of poems such asAsraar-e Khudi, Rumooz-e Bekhudi, Baang-e Daraa, Baal-e Jibreel.
(Your abode is not on the dome of a royal palace,
For you are an eagle, destined to live on the hard rock’s of mountains)
The process of creative writing did not end after the partition and Pakistan can attribute some great names to the list. One great example of a post-partition poet is Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
Faiz’s early writings were simple and blithe discourses on love and beauty, but later he grew interested in politics, community, and the substantive connection he felt was common in both life and poetry. Two of his poetry collections, Dast-e-Saba and Zindan Namah, focus on his life in prison, which he regarded as a chance to see the world in a new light.
Throughout his life, Faiz continually wrote, becoming the best-selling modern Urdu poet in both India and Pakistan. While his work follows a fairly strict expression, his poems maintain a casual, conversational tone, creating tension between the rich and the poor, somewhat in the ritual of Ghalib.
Faiz is especially famous for his poems in traditional Urdu, such as the ghazal, and his amazing skill to expand the conventional prospects to include political and social issues. In his famous poem “Mujhse pehli si mohabbat” his focus changes from traditional Urdu poetry to poetry with purpose, social conscience pursuing social causes.
(There are many other sorrows in this world besides the sorrow of love
There are many other delights besides the delight of union.)
The diversity of the subcontinent can be seen by the variety of poets it produced. The most eccentric of the modern poets is Manto. Manto touched on questions of belief, religion and nation and how people are often lost for answers. He laid bare the horrors human beings can unleash on one another. Manto’s poetry and writing exposed the obscenity and double standards of society. He was charged six times for obscene content. He retorted back by saying, “If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my writings, I only expose the truth.”
A revolutionary from the start till the very end of his life, Manto wanted the following words written on his tombstone after his death:
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From The JOCKO Podcast. The goal is not to get the rock to the top of the mountain. The goal is pushing the rock.
WARPATH: Jocko Willink
The WarPath is the path of discipline. The path against weakness. And the path toward freedom.
"GOOD." -- Jocko Willink
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|Above: Even to this day Rita Hayworth is considered one of the most beautiful women even the grace the silver screen. The only
actress who could claim the honor of having been dance partners with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly she is known to a much
lesser degree for her relationship with Clifford T. Bell in the very early days of her career. The exact nature of that relationship has
been the subject of much debate within the councils of the Brotherhood of the Purple Fez.
The photo dates from some years after Clifford's disappearance in 1940 but of interesting note (in addition to the lovely Rita herself)
is the ship's name which appears on the wheel that frames her very shapely legs so well - S.S. Venture. A strange and unlikely
coincidence? A quiet tribute from Rita to the long lost Clifford? In all likelihood no one will ever know for sure.
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Week 17: How-To Book: For which genealogy how-to book are you most thankful? Who wrote the book and why does it stand out in your eyes? Is the book currently available? How can other genealogists benefit from its content?
One of the very first books I picked up when I started delving into family history was How to do Everything: Genealogy Second Edition by George G. Morgan. It became my personal manual into how to navigate the new waters of the genealogical community. The book beings simple and builds on each chapter as you work your way into more complicated and intricate areas of research. As a new person to this field it was extremely helpful, but I am sure even a seasoned pro could learn a trick or two from this book. If not, having one on hand to show a newbie could be a good thing. It is available from all major booksellers as far as I can tell.


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Ph.D. Vanderbilt University (2015). Dr. Annette Joseph-Gabriel is a scholar of Francophone Caribbean literature and culture. Her areas of specialization include global feminisms, Afro-diasporic literary and cultural movements, and the Enlightenment in the French Atlantic.
“Creolizing Freedom: French-Creole Translations of Liberty and Equality in the Haitian Revolution.” Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies 36.1 (2015): 111-123
“Language Awareness in the French Classroom.” (Co-authored with Scott, Virginia M., Dessein, Eva, Ledford, Julian) The French Review 86.6 (2013): 90-102.
“Le Rire: Negritude and Henri Bergson’s Comic Negro.” Beyond Bergson. Ed. Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland, SUNY Press (volume in preparation)
“Feminist Networks and Diasporic Practices: Eslanda Robeson’s African Journeys.” We Could Turn this Whole World Over: Black Women’s Internationalism during the Twentieth Century. Ed. Tiffany M. Gill and Keisha N. Blain (volume in preparation).
Rev. of Slavery by Another Name, dir. Douglas Blackmon and PBS. Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 3.1 (2014): 86-88.
Rev. of Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place. Ed. Lowell Gudmundson & Justin Wolfe. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2010. Ameriquests 8.1 (2011).
For more information on her scholarship and digital humanities work please see www.annettejosephgabriel.com


Susan Dobson, Africa Ceylon de la serie “Slide Library” (2016)
In the summer of 2016, Susan Dobson came across a slide library that was being de-accessioned due to the emergence of digital archives. She became interested in the labelling and classification of the slides in the collection, which had not been updated or maintained in a long time, as they highlighted changes to our political, cultural, social, and geographic awareness. The collection also revealed an emphasis on Western art historical content. For example, a single Western country was represented by more than fifty trays, while up to eight nonWestern countries shared a single tray. The photographs that Dobson subsequently made question the ability of any archive to fully do justice to its subject, especially over time.
The aging of the slides, as physical resource, is a poignant reminder of philosopher Roland Barthes’ melancholy musing on the photograph,in which he points out that the photograph, like a human being, has a limited life: “Like a living organism, it is born on the level of the sprouting silver grain, it flourishes a moment, then ages.… Attacked by light, by humidity, it fades, weakens, vanishes; there is nothing left to do but throw it away.”1
1 Barthes, R. (1981) Camera Lucida. Nueva York: Hill and Wang.
9th November 2017 to 25th January 2018
Biblioteca Municipal Central – TEA
Avda. San Sebastián, 10. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tel: 922 849 090
Horario: 24 h
Artist: Susan Dobson
Laura San Segundo, Sin título de la serie “El ser entreabierto” (2016)
“El ser entreabierto” (2016) is a series of photographs suggested after reading The Poetics of Space (1957) by Gaston Bachelard, a book in which the author reflects on the house from a psychological viewpoint, understanding it as a topography of our being and as an instrument to analyse the human being and his relationship with the world. Therefore,he argues, we should not talk of the house as an object, but as a being. The specular relationship between human body and soul and architecture was the starting point for this project, based around a play of parallels and projections between spaces and people, in which both sides are represented as structures housing an inner space, accessible only through closing and opening mechanisms, contemplating the possibility for those structures to be an isolated block or frame, but, as Bachelard said, also a space inhabited by the universe, a mist.
9th November 2017 to 25th January 2018
Centro de Arte La Recova. Sala L
Plaza Isla de la Madera, s/n. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tel: 922 609 412
Horario: M-S de 11:00 a 13:00 h y de 17:00 a 20:00 h. / D de 11:00 a 14:00 h.
Artist: Laura San Segundo
Diego Ballestrasse, de la serie “La cuarta pared” (2015-2017)
Taking photographs by placing the camera “inside” the images responds to an urge to alter the conventional hierarchy of what supposedly bestows meaning. Instead, it pays attention to what resides in the interstices of the visible and usually goes unnoticed. Focusing our gaze in order to capture the apparently accessory information contained in a photo, what is secondary to the alleged referent, ultimately breaks down the boundary that keeps us on the outside as spectators and brings us inside. From this new space on the sidelines of photography, each one of us can follow our own path and in turn revisit our own images from another perspective, with other closeness.
“La cuarta pared” engages with a desire to explore the physical dimension of the photographic object and to nd answers to questions posed by the sociological mesh woven by family photos. How do these photographs mediate in our relationships? In what way do they intervene in our connections, in our understanding of family bonds? “La cuarta pared” is a work about affect and the mechanisms de ning the subjectivity inherent to our perception of images, inviting the beholder to embark on a journey to the centre of photography.
9th November 2017 to 8th January 2018
Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes. Sala Pedro González
Calle José Murphy, 12. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tel: 922 609 446
Horario: M-V de 10.00 a 20.00 h / S-D y festivos 10.00 a 15.00 h.
Artist: Diego Ballestrasse
Aurélia Frey, Variations de la serie “Apnée” (2014)
Apnée is the title of the collection of images inspired by George Sand’s Contes d’une grand-mère (A Grandmother’s Tales), and by the collection of legends, (Légendes rustiques) written by her son, Maurice. Each of these photographs explores variability but also the question of alteration and change, the transition from one state to another: images which are different but with an underlying resemblance. Variations on a theme, a change of tone or of harmonies around the same melodic line, a soft, insistent music lingering in the memory. Images which evoke others, hovering, suspended in time. Images which escape and create a passage through which Frey can reach out to the other, move from here to there and here to Elsewhere. For her, photographs are like the words of a poem, a tale or a novel: words like meditation and silence… When you come to the end, if there is an end, only the resonance and the emotion remain.
9th November 2017 to 12th January 2018
Ateneo de La Laguna
Plaza de la Catedral, 3. La Laguna. Tel: 922 259 822
Horario: L-V 10:30 a 14:00 h y de 17:30 a 21:30 h.
Artist: Aurelia Frey
Pablo Guerra, París de la serie “Semantic City” (2017)
One by one, the citizens caught by the camera in their everyday act of living show us their unrepeatable uniqueness. Men and women proudly stand out of the overwhelming mass of the big cities, coming to our notice through the mere fact of suddenly emerging in front of the photographer’s captivated eye.
Made mostly in Paris in 2016 and 2017, the series “Semantic City” seeks to say something to us about the city (seen as a cosmos, a con guration of humankind in connection) through the mediation of the people inhabiting it.
A story is built from an accumulation of gestures, expressions… body attitudes and gazes calling out to be interpreted. The city is turned into a text, into a kaleidoscopic visual code that offers an always open, ever- changing reading of its most public and secret intimacy.
9th November 2017 to 7th December 2017
Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme
Plaza San Cristóbal, 20. La Laguna. Tel: 922 254 704
Horario: L-V de 10:00 a 13:00 h y de 18:00 a 21:00 h
Artist: Pablo Guerra


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Yesterday, a NASA test vehicle lifted off from the ground in Florida, flew freely through the air, and landed about 650 feet away. It landed, crucially, in the same position it launched—upright—and that makes it look kind of like a science fiction film.
I have not read most of the big 19th — century novels that people consider “essential,” nor most of the 20th-century ones for that matter. But this does not embarrass me. There are many films to see, many friends to visit, many walks to take, many playlists to assemble and many favorite books to reread. Life’s too short for anxious score-keeping. Also, my grandmother is illiterate, and she’s one of the best people I know. Reading is a deep personal consolation for me, but other things console, too.
— Teju Cole, in response to the question, “What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?” (via ethiopienne)
In 1962, Lynne Sharon Schwartz and her husband Harry decided to make audio recordings of some of the literary up-and-comers they enjoyed reading. “We were aware of Caedmon, which had brought out the Dylan Thomas record of A Child’s Christmas in Wales. And we thought, we could do something like that,” Lynne tells NPR’s Susan Stamberg.
Baldwin led them to William Styron, who led them to James Jones, and eventually to Philip Roth, then a wunderkind with only one short story collection under his belt. "He was this warm, jovial, welcoming young person," Lynne recalls. "We sat around the fire, had a drink … and then of course when he started to read the passage and burst out with this comic rendition, we had no idea he had this in him."
Originally issued on vinyl in the 1960s, the recordings are now being made available in CD and download format.
"Some of these works are available read by actors," says Lynne. "But it’s not quite the same thing when you hear an author read his own. Then you really understand more about what it means to him, what he intended.”
Breathtaking view of the Milky Way from the surface of Mars
the universe is amazing
it really is
A white shelf cloud caps brownish dirt from a dust storm, or haboob, as it travels across the Indian Ocean near Onslow on the Western Australia coast in this handout image distributed by fishwrecked.com and taken January 9, 2013. (Reuters/Brett Martin/fishwrecked.com)


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The Revisionaries. A. R. Moxon
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A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad: The Vermont Brigade, June 23, 1864, by David Faris Cross. Illustrated, maps, prisoner roster, endnotes, bibliography, index, 267 pp., 2003. White Mane Books, P.O. Box 708, Shippensburg, PA 17257-0708, $29.95.
The fabled Vermont Brigade, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, according to military historian George G. Benedict, was "often put in where the hardest fighting was to be done… stayed when others fled, and … did not know when they were beaten-if they ever were beaten." Sixth Corps Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, General Martin T. McMahon, opined that "no body of troops in or out of the old Sixth corps had a better record." The chronology of battles that the brigade engaged in ran from Lee's Mill, in April, 1862, to Sailor's Creek, in April, 1865. Their valiant efforts include sanguinary battles at Savage's Station, Antietam, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, the entire Shenandoah Valley campaign, the final assault on Petersburg, and many others. General McMahon, again, said of the brigade, "they were individually self-reliant and skilful in the use of arms, and they honestly believed that The Vermont Brigade could not be beaten by the combined armies of the rebellion." And that, quite possibly, was true; except for "Black Thursday."
In June, 1864, as the bloody Overland Campaign came to a close and what would be a protracted Petersburg Campaign started, a relatively small skirmish occurred as the Army of the Potomac tried to extend its investment of Petersburg and cut the supply links to the Confederate capital.
Just days after Lee's Army of Northern Virginia arrived in the area to face and stalemate Meade's Army, the II and VI Corps were assigned the task of cutting off the railroad lines coming into the city from the south. The Third Division of VI Corps took up a position on the left flank of the Union army; the Vermont Brigade occupied the extreme left flank, just to the left of the Third Division.
The entire brigade was not involved in the 'incident,' much to the dismay of its recently promoted commander, Brigadier General Lewis Addison Grant, just the Fourth and Eleventh Infantry Regiments. The Fourth was already a veteran member of the brigade, having participated in 18 major battles since the beginning of the war. The Eleventh, a relative newcomer to the brigade, had only been in the field five weeks. At Weldon Railroad, on Thursday, June 23, 1864, due to incompetence, cowardice and petty squabbling about relative rank from their own officers and others up the chain of command, these two regiments suffered 454 casualties, 27 killed or mortally wounded, 20 wounded, and 407 taken prisoner.
At every level in the chain of command at and above the two regiments, with the notable exception of L. A. Grant, there is some degree of culpability for the disaster. Dr. Cross's well documented argument lays out in detail the shortcomings in leadership displayed on this day, leading to the capture of these men without even the slightest attempt at withdrawing them from their exposed position, or bringing in sufficient troops to support them.
Dr. Cross says this book was 'satisfying a curiosity' he had about the incident. Thankfully, it wasn't idle curiosity. He has produced a substantive analysis of one of the most significant events in Vermont's participation in the Rebellion. It is both enlightening and disturbing at the same time. Enlightening in that it penetrates the veneer of diplomacy and discretion that frequently cripples much post-war 19th century literature, and brings to light period manuscripts that prove every step of his analysis. It is disturbing in that it takes the reader beyond the not-particularly-revealing and impersonal statistics of casualties (i.e., so many killed or mortally wounded, … wounded, … missing), and traces nearly every single soldier from the point of his capture, through the suffering and deprivations of prison life, to his final resting place.
Dr. Cross's laudable effort makes this book a MUST READ!
There are several other 'incidents' begging for the same treatment; the Fifth Vermont at Savage's Station, the Eighth Vermont at Cedar Creek, the entire brigade at Marye's Heights to name but a few. Is there someone out there willing to take these on?
Tom Ledoux is the creator and webmaster of the Vermont in the Civil War website, VermontCivilWar.org. He has an M.A. in military studies (Civil War studies) from American Military University, and was the 2002 Recipient of the Vermont Civil War Council's "Full Duty Award."
Dr. Cross's book is available from
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Shouts & Whispers; The Civil War Correspondece of D. D. Priest of Mounty Holly, Vermont
Bully for the Band: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band
A Vermont Hill Town in the Civil War: Peacham's Story
"A Very Fine Appearance," The Vermont Civil War Photographs of George Houghton
The Ninth Vermont Infantry: A History and Roster
A Vermont Cavalryman in War & Love: The Civil War Letters of Brevet Major General William Wells and Anna Richardson
A Melancholy Affair At The Weldon Railroad
Army Life in Virginia
No Braver Deeds, The Story of the Equinox Guards
Notes of Army and Prison Life 1862-1865.
Occasional Paper #20. "Dear Wife" The civil War Letters of Chester K. Leach
The Ninth Vermont Infantry: A History and Roster
They Could Not Have Done Better; Thomas O. Seaver and The 3rd Vermont Infantry
We Are Coming Father Abra'am The History of the 9th Vermont Volunteer Infantry 1862-1865


The Milton Margal School for the Blind, Freetown.
The Milton Margal School for the Blind was founded in May 1956 with Government support.
For the first seven years of its existence, the school had a temporary home in a rented house in College Road in Congo Cross, Freetown.
On the 26th April 1962, in commemoration of the first Independence Anniversary of Sierra Leone, the Right Honourable Sir Milton Margal laid the foundation stone of the present permanent site on Wilkinson Road and the school was renamed as the Sir Milton Margal School for the Blind.
The original building was a single storey building with classrooms, offices, dormitories, dining room, kitchen and storage rooms, all leading directly off walkways which form the four sides of a square.
The library and additional classrooms were added in 1974 and 1979. In 1982, the Christoffel House building was constructed as a gift from the Christoffel Blinden Mission in Germany. This two storey co-educational building contains large dormitories and a staff annexe on each floor.
The school follows a normal Primary curriculum but with extra emphasis on Braille reading and writing and on Typing. We have various extra curricula activities in particular, singing - the choir is renowned throughout Sierra Leone and even overseas.
Copyright © Paul Shaw ABIPP 2014. All Rights Reserved


(Story credit: The University of Southern Mississippi)
The University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM) Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage (COHCH) marked 50 years of oral history education at the school during 2021-2022, as it continues its work documenting the story of the Magnolia State through the voices of its people.
The USM COHCH is one of the oldest active oral history programs in the nation with a collection of approximately 5,000 audio and video interviews and remains the most relevant repository of the state’s history as told by Mississippians from all walks of life. The major events of the 20th century, as well as the triumphs, tragedies, and tedium of everyday life, are preserved by the Center for future generations.
As defined by the Oral History Association, oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. Oral history is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders in the 1940s and now using 21st-century digital technologies.
“I’m so proud to sit in the director’s chair during this historic time for the Center,” said Dr. Kevin Greene, associate professor of history and current director for the COHCH. “The USM COHCH has blazed a path in the world of professional oral history for five decades, and its collections hold their own against any other across the country.”
Dr. Greene noted that one of the joys of the anniversary year was the design and execution of an oral history project with former directors and staff members, “whose tireless efforts and brilliant work have helped make the Center what it is today.”
“Of course, the history pulled from the collections is remarkable, but the Center, too, has its own incredible story as an institution within USM,” Dr. Greene continued. “Fifty years strong, the Center is yet again on the cusp of making some serious noise in the world of oral history and I can’t wait to see how it unfolds.”
The COHCH traces its origin to the university’s oral history program that began in 1971, which launched the Center’s vast collection of interviewees sharing their experiences ranging from the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, military combat in multiple wars and conflicts around the globe to surviving Hurricanes Camille and Katrina. Others include stories of Mississippi food ways, rural life, and local, state and national politics, among many more.
“Over the past half-century, the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage has been documenting and preserving the lives of Mississippians, from civil rights workers to military veterans,” said USM Professor of History Dr. Heather Stur, who served as co-director for the center along with Dr. Greene from 2015-2017. “The collections literally give voice to Mississippi history and allow Mississippians to tell the stories of our state in their own words.”
Jerra Runnels, a master’s degree student in the USM History program, said the Center’s collection of interviews has been an invaluable resource for research on her thesis, which looks at Hattiesburg during World War II and the role of Black women in the community. Runnels was enrolled in Dr. Greene’s oral history seminar (HIS 785) during the spring 2022 semester.
“We are so fortunate to have the collection at USM. Many times, primary sources are difficult to locate, and I have found many oral histories in the collection that not only gave me essential information but ideas for other sources,” Runnels noted. “Having these stories and experiences allows historians to use multiple sources to understand the past.
“Accessibility to sources is crucial to historical research,” Runnels said. “Thankfully, USM’s oral histories are mostly digitized, with both the audio file and transcript available. Having both is critical to understanding the information, and Ross Walton and Stephanie DeArmey (current staff members with COHCH) at the Center do a great job of working to make the collection available.”
Runnels also expressed gratitude to Dr. Greene for his help with suggestions on where to find interviews in the collection that have helped with her research.
“Having just completed my graduate seminar class in oral history, I have learned about doing oral histories and the importance of oral histories as sources,” she explained. “Dr. Greene was a great professor, showing us ways to get the best interview as we worked on our projects. These skills are important to those of us receiving our Public History certificate with plans of working in oral history.”
Origin of USM oral history education
The original oral history program at the university was formed in the spring of 1971, under the policy direction of the Mississippi Oral History Committee, which included Dr. William D. McCain, Dr. R.C. Cook, Dr. Claude Fike, Dr. Jack Smith, Dr. John Gonzales, Dr. Neil McMillen, Dr. William H. Hatcher, Dr. Ray Skates (co-chair), Dr. Stanford Gwin (co-chair), and Dr. D.C. Williams. The first completed oral history volume of interviews was with Turner Catledge, a native Mississippian who became executive editor of the New York Times. The oral history program then transitioned to the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage in 1996.
Past directors and co-directors of the then USM Oral History Program and now COHCH include:
- Orley B. Caudill (founding director of the original oral history program)
- Dr. Chester M. “Bo” Morgan (director from fall 1984-spring 1991)
- Dr. Charles C. Bolton (director from fall 1991-spring 2003)
- Dr. Curtis Austin and Dr. Stephen Sloan served alternately as directors and co-directors from 2003-2008.
- Dr. Louis Kyriakoudes (director from 2008-2015)
- Dr. Heather Stur (co-director with Dr. Kevin Greene 2015-2017)
- Dr. Kevin Greene (2015-current director)
The Center has co-deposited many interviews in such archives as the Library of Congress, Tougaloo College, the Biloxi Mardi Gras Museum, the Biloxi Seafood Museum, Waveland’s Ground Zero Hurricane Museum and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life.
In recent years, the Center has secured grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize and make available on the internet its collection of interviews focused on the civil rights movement in Mississippi, and from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to support interviews with those communities whose livelihoods rely on the seafood industry that were affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
For more than 20 years, the Center has worked with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in the Mississippi Oral History Project (MOHP), funded by the Mississippi state legislature. The project document the collective memory of Mississippi’s culture, heritage, and institutions in the 20th and 21st centuries. The oral history projects within the MOHP are partnerships between the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage, and local communities and organizations document and preserve local history and culture.
Mississippi Moments, an award-winning weekly radio program that airs on Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB), is another partnership between the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage and the Mississippi Humanities Council that includes MPB. Content for the program, produced by COHCH Sound Engineer Ross Walton, comes directly from the Center’s vast collection of interesting and entertaining stories. Hosted by Bill Ellison, the program airs Monday – Friday at 12:30 p.m. on MPB Radio. Listeners can hear about Freedom Summer, the Piney Woods, music, food and other aspects of the history and culture of the Magnolia State found in the Center’s collection of interviews.
Mississippi Moments is also a podcast available for download from the Center’s website at http://www.usm.edu/oral-history/mississippi-moments, by visiting its podcast page at MississippiMoments.org , or liking the Center’s Facebook page. It can also be accessed by downloading episodes from iTunes or Spotify.
Former directors of the COHCH also weighed in with their reflections on the Center reaching a milestone anniversary:
Dr. Chester “Bo” Morgan:
“It’s hard to believe the COHCH’s roots go back half a century,” said Dr. Morgan, who also served most recently as University Historian and History program faculty member prior to his retirement from USM in 2019. “What was then known simply as the Mississippi Oral History Program was barely a decade old when I became director in 1982. It has since grown into one of the world’s leading resource centers for scholarly research, especially concerning civil rights history.
“It is rewarding to think that our staff in the 1980s made a small contribution to that development by redirecting what had been a largely scattershot interview process into one more project-oriented.”
Dr. Charles “Chuck” Bolton:“When I came to USM in 1990, the oral history program was called the Mississippi Oral History Program,” Dr. Bolton said. “It was fairly well established and primarily focused on collecting and preserving oral histories. What existed when I came was wonderful in many ways: a lot of interviews had been recorded, and the collection had a great deal of breadth–people from all walks of life had been interviewed.
“With the help of a wonderful assistant director, Shana Walton, who I hired soon after I arrived, we were able to continue that core work of oral history documentation but also take on new tasks, primarily in developing public programming and educational materials based on the rich collection of oral source material. As a result, we convinced the administration to change our name to one that reflected our new mission (the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage). “The many new initiatives of the Center included a radio documentary series that aired on Mississippi’s statewide public radio network; exhibits, including one that debuted at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; and a biannual, live radio show, ‘Roots Reunion,’ that featured the traditional music of Mississippi and was broadcast on the USM campus radio station. The last two programs were made possible because of a major grant we received from the National Endowment for the Arts, which led to the creation of the Pine Hills Culture Program within the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. We hired Carolyn Ware, a folklorist, to direct this program and she created most of the wonderful programming of the Pine Hills Culture Program.”
The radio documentary series was “Mississippi Voices: A Trip through the Twentieth Century,” a 26-part radio series, which aired on Mississippi Public Radio between November 1998 and March 1999 (the latter transitioning to the radio program Mississippi Moments).”
Major projects that took place during Dr. Bolton’s tenure as director include:
*Stennis Space Center History Project, funded by NASA, 1991-2005. This project set up and maintained a history archive at the John C. Stennis Space Center and conducted an oral history project to document the creation and development of the south Mississippi NASA facility.
*Civil Rights Documentation Project, 1997-1999, funded by the Mississippi Legislature and the Mississippi Humanities Council. The Project was done in collaboration with the Tougaloo College Archives. This project led to a nationwide survey to create an online bibliography of existing oral histories about the Mississippi civil rights movement; the recording and preservation of new interviews in several Mississippi communities; and the development of an interactive CD-ROM about the Mississippi movement, which was distributed to Mississippi secondary schools (at that time, the CD-ROM was a cutting-edge technology).
*Mississippi Oral History Program, 1999-2000, funded through a $500,000 line-item appropriation from the Mississippi Legislature. This project was done in collaboration with the Mississippi Humanities Council. This first phase of funding launched a statewide oral history program that created community-based oral history projects in five locations across the state of Mississippi.
*In the late 1990s, the USM oral history program was one of the first in the country to put oral history transcripts on the internet.
“The oral history program at USM is a real gem; it provides first-hand testimony about so many of the events and personalities that make up the story of Mississippi in the 20th century and into the 21st century,” Dr. Bolton continued. “It is an important resource for historians and anyone else interested in understanding the recent history of the state.”
Dr. Stephen Sloan
Under Dr. Sloan, the Center conducted an interview project focused on the impact of Hurricane Katrina; other projects included continued management of the Roots Reunion program and working with Mississippi Public Broadcasting on Mississippi Moments, Defenders of Freedom, and Mississippi Veterans Speak); Dr. Sloan was also program chair for a meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society.
The Center produced significant content for Mississippi History Now during Dr. Sloan’s tenure. Other efforts while he served as director included interview projects with the Mississippi Wildlife Federation, Jones County, Mississippi Armed Forces Museum and Mississippi National Guard (on 155th Brigade Combat Team returning from Iraq), Hattiesburg Clinic, legacy of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Mobile Bouie Neighborhood Oral History Project, Turkey Creek Community Oral History Project, and the Community Bridges Oral History Project in Biloxi, among others.
“The Center is the voice of Mississippi’s history over the last few generations, covering a variety of topics that well represent the diversity of voices and experiences of the people of the state,” said Dr. Sloan, who now serves as director of the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University. “The Center is very special, and I am honored that part of my career could intersect with its great work.”
Dr. Louis Kyriakoudes
Dr. Kyriakoudes said serving as director of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage was one of the most satisfying phases of his career. Upon being named director in the summer of 2008, he said he felt a deep sense of responsibility to try to live up the high standards of the outstanding directors who preceded him.
“COHCH has been led by impressive scholars: Orley Caudill, founding director; Chester Morgan, Charles Bolton, Stephen Sloan, and Curtis Austin set high bars for excellence,” Dr. Kyriakoudes continued. “The Center represents 50 years of skilled and dedicated work capturing the life stories of Mississippians from all walks of life. It represents an incalculable resource for the people of Mississippi.”
Dr. Kyriakoudes stepped away as head of the COHCH when he left USM in May 2015 to run the Albert Gore Research Center at MTSU. He said during his tenure with the USM COHCH, four projects stand out as especially meaningful.
“First and foremost was the COHCH’s long-standing commitment to recording the stories of veterans of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Movement. This had long been a priority of the COHCH, and its oral histories with Mississippi’s civil rights leaders and activists are unequalled. We conducted an extensive project on participants in the Biloxi Beach Wade In movement, an early 1960s effort to desegregate the beaches of Harrison County led by the late Dr. Gilbert Mason. Also, we conducted interviews in Holmes County, Mississippi, an important site for civil rights protest in the 1960s. This also led to the McCain Library and Archives acquiring the extensive papers of Sue Lorenzi Sojourner, who lived in Holmes County in the 1960s. When we commemorated the 50th anniversary of Freedom summer, we were able to conduct many interviews with civil rights veterans who had come to Hattiesburg for the commemoration.”
The second project he noted was a commitment to digitizing older interviews on audio tape and expanding online access to the Center’s oral histories. When Dr. Kyriakoudes became director, few of the center’s oral histories were available online.
“Getting the Center’s interviews migrated from fragile audio tape to digital formats and accessible online was my number one goal,” he said, and was able to accomplish that in 2014 when he won a major National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to digitize and published online 700-plus civil rights oral histories. “I’m proud to have played a role in making these oral histories available or anyone with access to the internet.”
The third project was documentation of the history of the seafood industry along the northern Gulf Coast. “During my 18 years at USM, I lived on the coast in Bay St Louis. I’m an avid marine fisher and sailor,” Dr. Kyriakoudes noted. “I was always interested in preserving the history of Mississippi’s marine harvesters, fishers, and seafood workers.” He won funding for a history of the design and implementation of Turtle Excluder Devices, which are attached to shrimp nets and allow marine mammals and turtles to escape the shrimpers nets while retaining the harvest of shrimp. “We found that shrimper’s experience was critical to designing and adopting these devices,” Dr. Kyriakoudes said.
That project led to a major research effort to document the impact of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. A major grant from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) funded an 18-month study of marine harvesters and seafood workers all along the northern Gulf Coast. “My students and staff interviewed dozens of shrimpers, crabbers, oyster harvesters, and seafood processors about how the oil spill had impacted them and the fishery.”
The fourth is one Dr. Kyriakoudes says he’s especially proud of – his work with Mississippi Moments. “I had inherited this high-quality oral history radio program, and my role was to put it on a sustainable basis with a steady source of funding and to hire Ross Walton, a skilled producer who continues to create this program to this very day. This program continues to connect the people of Mississippi with their history through its statewide radio broadcasts over Mississippi Public Broadcasting.”
Linda VanZandt, former managing editor
Linda VanZandt, former managing editor for the Center under directors Dr. Sloan and Dr. Kyriakoudes, said the Center’s 50 years of collecting and sharing the stories of Mississippians represents a significant achievement.
Reflecting on her time at the Center (2004-2013), she says she appreciates how earlier, important projects on the civil rights movement and with veterans of war inspired her work expanding the diversity of voices through recording life histories with Sudanese Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Vietnamese Americans of the Gulf Coast, who survived the trauma of war, leaving their homeland, Hurricane Katrina, and the BP oil spill disaster.
“For myself and my Center colleagues, learning to interview post-crisis, immediately after two of the greatest disasters in U.S. history, was challenging and it was new territory for the practice of oral history,” VanZandt said. “We were all deeply impacted during the telling of these stories, amazed at the resilience and courage of those we interviewed, and grateful for the funding of these ambitious projects.
“Much of my work (and the Center’s) was also supported by the Mississippi Humanities Council, allowing time and funds for me to travel the state and region building community outreach, conducting training, planning events, producing CDs featuring our collection, and many other initiatives connecting communities with the university and our work. In the process, it was evident that oral history is not just past history. It’s past, present, and future. It was important I ask myself, ‘How can this be empowering and transformative for narrators and those who will hear their stories?’ because I had seen firsthand the power of connection for individuals and communities sharing their stories.
“Every one of the approximately 5,000 recorded interviews are forever imprinted with its own special strengths and character – the dedication and empathy of the interviewer, the courage and willing reflection of the narrator, the joining together in a journey into the depths of dialogue and memories perhaps unanticipated,” Van Zandt said. “To have served as an interviewer and also a trainer, managing editor, special projects director, and everyday partner with a team of gifted colleagues for a decade was one of the great honors of my life.”
Bill Ellison, the voice of Mississippi Moments, says in his 50 years of work in radio, he’s been associated with many programs and features, but gets as many questions and positive comments concerning the program as any he’s been a part of.
“I’m told that some Mississippi Moments program segments make listeners proud to be Mississippians,” Ellison continued. “Others fill in the blanks for unfamiliar details of our state’s history. What a treasure trove the center had the foresight to preserve.”
Stephanie Millet, Ross Walton
In addition to his sound engineer duties, Walton also serves the center as a researcher, writer, producer of Mississippi Moments and audio CDs, and narrator.
In 2008, after spending 20 years in retail and marketing, Walton returned to USM to pursue a degree in creative writing. After successfully completing his first semester, he reached out to the COHCH about volunteer opportunities, intrigued by the possibilities in its collection. The Center’s director at the time, Dr. Kyriakoudes, offered him a job he found so fulfilling that it compelled him to stay on long after attaining his degree.
Preserving, promoting, and growing the Center’s collection has proved rewarding in many ways, he says.
“Because the Center has collected broadly, I am always discovering new and interesting things about our state and her people,” Walton continued. “As the producer of Mississippi Moments, it would be impossible for me to come up with fresh ideas each week without having such a wide variety of topics from which to choose. After 689 episodes and counting, I can assure you we have only made a small dent in the number of stories available to share.”
While digitizing tapes and producing public-facing content has constituted the bulk of Walton’s efforts so far, he also been fortunate to work as an interviewer on several projects. Of these, the history of the Waveland Fire Department and the Holiday Inn Oral History Project have been two of his favorites.
“I’m also interested in helping train future oral historians and aspiring documentarians on the best standards and practices as prescribed by the Oral History Association. I believe our mission moving forward should include the role of incubator for future public historians. It seems a natural progression in our evolution as a vibrant, oral history trendsetter.”
Walton says the foresight of the Center’s founders to begin documenting the stories of the Civil Rights Movement so soon after desegregation–while memories were still fresh and raw —“never ceases to amaze me. “And our military veterans collection, covering every conflict from WW I to today, is unsurpassed in breadth, depth and relevance,” he continued. “Our collection is a crowning jewel, that the University and the entire state, should wear with pride.”
An interview with famed Mississippi-born comedian Jerry Clower stands out among Walton’s list of favorites in the Center’s vast collection. “It’s hard to pick just one, but I have to say that Jerry Clower’s is certainly one of them,” he said. “He was such a decent man who just loved this state and humanity in general. And of course, he’s just so entertaining you can’t help but smile.”
DeArmey’s work with the Center includes interviewing; transcription of interviews; sending transcripts out to interviewees for review and making changes as requested by the interviewee; writing tables of contents and biographies; proofreading; having interviews bound; making copes available to the interviewee; and archiving copies at the Center as well as with USM Archives. She also trains others to conduct interviews, and edits and archives the Center’s backlog of transcribed interviews.
“Our COHCH is a storehouse of Mississippi’s people’s life experiences throughout time,” DeArmey said. “We have been visited and called by authors, students, researchers, and institutions, including those who helped shape Mississippi’s Civil Rights Museum, all needing to find data or stories or sound bites, all needing to use our public history recordings and transcripts, to further understanding events that shape our lives.”
“As we contemplate the 50th anniversary of the Center, I’m thinking back to when I started in 1998 on the Civil Rights Documentation Project, which recorded, transcribed, bound, and archived interviews with civil rights activists throughout Mississippi, After earning my bachelor’s degree in Family Life Studies, I had worked at Southern Miss about 10 years on grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the last of which created an institute on the prevention of hate crimes, where I got my first education on civil rights in Mississippi. When the grant applications were no longer available, I turned my skills to the COHCH.”
DeArmey has worked on numerous projects for the COHCH, but some of her favorites are Mississippi’s Longleaf Legacy Oral History Project (OHP), Hurricane Katrina OHP, Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster/NOAA Voices from the Fisheries OHP, and the Two Mississippi Museums OHP.
“Working at the COHCH hasn’t felt much like work. Over the years I have conducted oral histories, transcribed and edited them, and archived them; taught many others to conduct oral history; met with legislators, MHC, MDAH, and those who use our collection, collaborating with them to preserve and make available public history,” she continued. “Several plays and exhibits have resulted in these collaborations; students from the U.S. and Canada have participated in service learning by collaborating with us.
“Every oral history I hear pulls me in, and I engage in another person’s story; I really can get lost in them and find a ‘time out of time’ moment. I have enjoyed it, and I think preserving these personal and public histories is important. We want to leave a legacy that gives others a window into the past.”
Learn more about the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage by visiting www.usm.edu/oralhistory.


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I took this meme from Lemming's Progress' blog
1. Total Number of Books I've Owned: I have no idea. If you count all of the children’s books my parents bought for me it would be well over 1,000. As for now, I own four full bookcases and I have several stored in boxes.
2. Last Book I Bought: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (the guy who wrote The Virgin Suicides). Why? Well, because I am in a book discussion group and this is what we’re reading. A group of us at work agreed some time ago to tackle the Random House List of top 100 English language books of the 20th century. Well, we got bored along the way and decided to read a “modern classic”. Middlesex won a Pulitzer, so it was nominated. It’s a very interesting book and probably the best book I’ve read where the lead character was a hermaphrodite.
3. Last Book I Read: Hmmm, ok well, I must be honest. It was The Da Vinci Code. I picked it up at my uncle’s house a couple weeks ago and finished it later that night. It was very interesting but also very poorly written. I think I could write better dialogue than Dan Brown. Well, ok, I could write it just as poorly.
4. Five books that mean a lot to me:
A. The People’s History of the United States –by Howard Zinn – This is the one book that every American should read. It gives an honest portrayal of American history and one that we’re not taught by the mythmakers in school. I think if this were required reading at the high school level, we’d have a lot less jingoism in this country, which would be a very good thing.
B. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger It’s still my all time favorite book, a lament on the loss of the innocence of youth and the nervous breakdown caused by impending adulthood.
C. Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut Ok, so I cheated. I choose two books one author. The first book is an explanation of our modern American (particularly Midwestern) lifestyle by an omniscient narrator to apparent alien to our planet. It’s only when we step outside of pattern and tradition and look at our lives through a fresh perspective, do we realize how absurd our lives really can be.
Slaughterhouse 5 -- Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut survived the senseless and horrific Dresden bombings as a prisoner of war and then succeeded in writing one of the best anti-war novels of all time.
D. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald Simply put, this is the greatest American novel.
E. The Other America – Michael Harrington I found this book on my parent’ s bookshelf when I was 12 years old. Even though the book was over twenty years old at the time, I still saw the other America all around me. This book definitely shaped my worldview.
5. Tag 5 people and have them do this on their blog:
Any and all who would like to answer.


Metin Kunt received his BA in 1965 from the Comparative Literature program at Robert College. In 1971, after receiving his PhD degree in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, he started teaching at Boğaziçi University, and played an important role in the process of this institution’s transformation from a private college into a research-oriented public university. Active in Boğaziçi until 1981, Metin Kunt directed the Humanities Program, which was the seedbed for the departments of History, Western Languages and Civilizations, Turkish Language and Literature, and Philosophy. Kunt taught at Cambridge University between 1986-1998, and later participated in the shaping of the History program at Sabancı University.
Metin Kunt became an esteemed figure in Ottoman studies especially through his publications on Ottoman administration and the structure of the ruling elite during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His study, Sancaktan Eyalete: 1550-1650 Arasında Osmanlı Ümerası ve İl İdaresi, published by Boğaziçi University Press in 1978, and its English version, The Sultan’s Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550-1650, published by Columbia University Press in 1983, played a significant and pioneering role in interrogating the “decline” paradigm that had hitherto dominated Ottoman historiography. Kunt published numerous articles on various aspects of early modern Ottoman history, while also authoring source-based studies such as Bir Osmanlı Valisinin Yıllık Gelir-Gideri: Diyarbekir 1670-71 (Boğaziçi University Press, 1981). He also published two edited volumes. With Christine Woodhead, he co-edited Süleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World (Longman, 1995), and with Jeroen Duindam and Tülay Artan, he co-edited the volume entitled Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective (Brill, 2011).
We will always remember him not only with his contributions to historical scholarship, but also with his kind, genteel, and generous persona.


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I did a format conversion with Calibre, to convert a Kindle AZW into another format. When I did, all of the figures/illustrations/graphics were missing or blank.
It turns out that when a book gets downloaded to a physical Kindle, special things happen to the graphics. They may not be available in converted output, or they may be reduced to monochrome.
To avoid the issue, convert a freshly-downloaded copy of the book, instead of the book currently on the Kindle. Go to the Manage My Kindle page at https://www.amazon.com/mn/dcw/myx.html and choose “Download & transfer via USB” in the Action column. Download the .azw. Convert this file to your desired format.
Of course conversion only works for non-copy protected books.


This book came out in 1937 during the Great Depression in USA. It consists of interviews and distilled knowledge from over 40 billionaires and millionaires. It has sold over 100 million copies worldwide. I was skeptical to this book in the beginning. When I started to read it I enjoyed the clear and a bit naïve, but knowledgeable voice through the whole book.
This is another classic from the same period of history. I read it as a teenager and it helped to navigate sometimes confusing interaction through different cultures. It is still worth to read again because it explains simple truth about human communication.
In 2016 Ferriss with a great success attempted to do a similar thing as Napoleon Hill. He interviewed many interesting and passionate people in business, art and culture. Why did they succeed, what were their daily routines, biggest fears and mistakes? It is a refreshing and deep insight into the minds of smart people. You can listen to several of the interviews on his podcast.
Stories about successful founders are often told in a plain way. The founder got the idea, struggled a bit and then suddenly – success! We learn little about the fights and pain on their way to the top. This is exactly the topic of Browns book. She explores creativity and adversity challenges in individuals, startups and even companies like Pixar.
The main wisdom of this book is relevant not only to entrepreneurs. When you are on your way to success, there are often many qualities that help you to achieve your goals. May be you are straightforward and a bit rude, and that helps you to land deals. Will this attitude be a big help all your life? Or will it stop you from getting further? It is is all about subtle nuances that make a huge difference in your career.
This book is a global bestseller embraced by organizations and industries worldwide. Authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating new markets or “blue oceans”. It is a study 150 strategic moves in over 30 industries for the past 100 years. How thinking new and big have changed these organizations.
Everything Diamandis does has a bit of a madness in it. Either it is a asteroid-mining company, Singularity University or X-prize. He challenges readers to think big and bold. He wants your energy on solving humanity’s biggest challenges, like lack of water, energy, food and etc. It is difficult not to become inspired by this book.
As an entrepreneur of a growing company your business is changing a lot in a few years. One day you become more of a manager. You have to learn to manage and delegate. This book might come in handy. It explores what makes a great CEO, and tells stories of eight unknown CEOs. An investment of $10,000 with each of these CEOs, on average, would have been worth over $1.5 million twenty-five years later. How do they do it?
Several of entrepreneurs mentioned that this book is useful for strategic processes in their companies. It explains the psychology of why people say yes, why they change their behavior and how to achieve it with six universal principles.
Weird choice? Not really. If you are into technology, this book might give you a lot of inspiration on what can be your next creation. Fiction eats theory and reality for breakfast.
No doubt, there are many more books that should be on this list. We will come back with a part two later. Enjoy!