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Wade Grimes voice > 314 898 5553
Social Studies Dept Chair fax > 314 898 3140
Audio Visual Dir CATV 18 internet > wgrimes1@services.dese.state.mo.us
H L Purdin High School
Elsberry, Missouri 63343 0106 A R S > WA0MHP
With the coming of May, school is about out and
dogs will have to find something else to eat, besides homework
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Newsletter of public domain and freely available electronic texts
Circulation: direct = 2435, indirect (estimated) 100,000+
This newsletter is free for the asking. To be added to the distribution
list, please send requests to The B&R Samizdat Express
(samizdat@world.std.com). Permission is granted to freely distribute
this newsletter in electronic form.
We plan to produce new issues about once a month. We welcome
submissions of articles and information relating to availability of
electronic texts on the Internet and their use in education.
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WHAT'S NEW
(texts recently made available by ftp, gopher, LISTSERV, and www)
from the Gutenberg Project --
ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu /pub/etext/etext94
The Apocrypha: Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible (apoc9.txt)
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, selected & edited by Andrew
Lang (arab10.txt)
At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs (ecore10.txt)
Sun Tzu on the Art of War, trans. by Lionel Giles (suntzu10.txt)
The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic (ware10.txt)
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter (limbr10.txt)
The Poison Belt by Arthur Conan Doyle (poisn.txt)
Maria, or the Wrongs of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft (maria10.txt)
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (ortho10.txt)
from the U.S. Dept. of Education
ftp ftp.ed.gov
gopher gopher.ed.gov
http://www.ed.gov
Goals 2000: Educate America Act -- the full text, as signed into law
on March 31, 1994 (in gopher choose /Department-wide Initiatives/
Goals 2000 Initiative/Legislation)
new edition of Guide to US Dept. of Education Programs (in gopher
choose /US Dept. of Education Programs -- General Information)
PLEASE NOTE -- This gopher server has added a very useful
search feature. If you choose What's New, you can search by number
of days back or since a particular date and get a list of the latest items
from which you can elect to go straight to the item you want, by-passing
the directory structure.
from NATO
LISTSERV@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE
gopher stc.nato.int
All the latest information from NATO and related organizations -- including
the military and political activity related to Bosnia -- has been available
by
LISTSERV and now is also on gopher. The gopher server is complete, well-
organized and easy to use. In addition to NATO, it includes the North
Atlantic Assembly (NAA), the Western European Union "(WEU), the
Assembly of Western European Union (A-WEU), the Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), and Le Corps Europeen.
It will soon include the Council of Europe (CofE) as well. Plenary Sessions
of the Assembly of Western European Union are in French, as are the
documents from Le Corps Europeen. The rest of the material is in English
only for now.
From this gopher, you can also easily reach a number of other interesting
sites that you might otherwise not have known existed. Found under
"Other International/Strategic Affairs", these include:
Baltic Regional Research Centre
Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, ETH Zurich
Conflict Studies Research Centre, RMA Sandhurst
Foreign Military Studies Office
Foreign Systems Research Center
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (Daily Reports on
Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union)
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
from the Helsinki City Library in Finland
http://www.kaapeli.fi /maailma/kalevala/kalevala.html
ftp nic.funet.fi /pub/doc/literary/etext/Finnish
The Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, in Finnish (kalevala.gz)
from Project Runeberg
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg.html
gopher gopher.lysator.liu.se 70
ftp ftp.lysator.liu.se /pub/runeberg
The explanatory material here is in English, but the texts themselves
are in Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian,
Icelandic, and Faroese). The Scandinavian texts are not in ASCII,
since that code cannot represent all the letters of the alphabet
used in these languages. Instead, the texts are offered in a variety
of extended, standard character sets. The current offerings include
the Bible in Swedish, a list of Scandinavian Authors, Translators and
Artists compiled by Lars Aronsson, who runs the Project; as well as
numerous novels, plays, and poems.
from Spunk press
ftp etext.archive.umich.edu (141.211.164.18)
/pub/Politics/Spunk/texts/@writers
This archive is devoted to anarchist literature. It includes (in English)
brief excerpts from works by and about Michael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin,
Emma Goldman, Errico Malatesta, and William Godwin.
Several sites which are loaded with good electronic texts and which you
should check regularly did not have anything new of note since our
last issue:
wiretap -- ftp 130.43.43.43 /Library/Classic/
Oxford Archive -- ftp ota.ox.ac.uk /ota/english/
Libellus Project -- ftp ftp.u.washington.edu
/pub/user-supported/libellus/texts
LANDMARKS --
**ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB
Check out the home pages and creations of students at the following schools:
Hillside Elementary, Cottage Grove, Minnesota
http://hillside.coled.umn.edu
Grand River Elementary, Michigan
http://web.cal.msu.edu/JSRI/GR/grintro.html
Lincoln Elementary, Iowa
http://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu/LincolnElementary/Lincoln.html
Buckman School, Portland, Oregon
http://davinci.vancouver.wsu.edu/buckman/aboutbuckman.html
In particular, check the research reports written by sixth graders at
Hillside, which include hypertext links to the sources they cite.
Also, take a look at the illustrated Spanish counting (1-10) booklet
put together by kindergartners at Buckman.
**PERU (IN SPANISH) ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB
La Red Cientifica Peruana, a non-profit organization in Peru,
connected that country to the NSF backbone in February and
now has a Worldwide Web server. This looks like it's the first
Web server in South America. Nearly all the material is in
Spanish -- which makes this a useful resources for teachers of that
language.
http://www.rcp.net.pe/rcp.html
gopher gopher.rcp.net.pe
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SUGGESTION -- PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
While very few K-12 schools have good Internet connections, nearly all
have PCs or Macintoshes. And one of the best ways to introduce them
to the treasures of the Internet is by providing them with electronic texts
on disks. (That's a lot easier and cheaper than giving them printouts.)
For further information, send email to samizdat@world.std.com
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