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Alan Quartermain

H. Rider Haggard created the prototype for Indiana Jones: Alan Quartermain. Haggard was a British writer, born in 1856, died in 1925, two of the Alan Quartermain novels he wrote are The Lost City of Gold and King Solomon's Mines, which was made into a film with Richard

Changing the world

From Philip Gerard's "Writing a book that makes a difference" If you had the power to instantaneously change one thing in the world that didn't affect you personally, what would it be? Why would you change it? What's the most eloquent argument

Float Trip

Hubby and I went on our first ever float trip this weekend, on the Black River, with a whole pile of people, friends and family of friends. After three days of solid rain, the river looked high and there was a noticeable current. Our first capsize happened about five minutes

Myths and Legends

Picked up Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by Helene Guerber yesterday, great reading so far. More about it later.

Word play

Eternal thanks to Fred of Fragments from Floyd for the link to Wordspy: Welcome to the home of the Word Spy! This Web site and its associated mailing list are devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that

Blogging for a whole year and then some

My blog anniversary passed unnoticed in January. The site hitting 25,000 page views passed unnoticed, as did the 15,000 visitor mark. So heck with it, I'll do it today because it's an unremarkable Friday in May. I started this on January 10th 2002. I

Random train of thought

The train now standing at platform three is the nine forty three to London, fast service, stopping at Woking, Clapham Junction, and London Waterloo. If your travel plans today did not include London, this would be a good time to get off. There have been storms in St Louis, but

Poetry in motion

I tried Rob's Amazing Poem Generator on this page. it came out with this. Quantum Tea rose and some little forwards. it felt like the house. and some Forget Me from lying on by lunchtime, all I never called. Things they list several emails are not related to

Let's Motor

(US Translation: bonnet = hood, boot = trunk, exhaust = tailpipe) We've been idly looking for the Mini dealer for about a year now, ever since we saw the web site. On Saturday we got there and test drove a Mini Cooper S. First, the dull technical stuff: 1.6 litre

Press 87 to accidentally disconnect yourself

Every thirty seconds I get another "All agents are still busy. Please remain on the line. Your call is very important to us." I timed it. It's not like there's a lot else I could do with the phone glued to my ear, trying

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