American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem...
As part of the Library of Congress American Memory series, the CAL Collection of American English Dialect Recordings has been digitized and is now accessible online. This collection of interviews and other speech recordings, primarily from dialect research and oral history projects, provides a centralized source of North American dialect samples, preserving valuable linguistic resources that might otherwise be lost. The collection was donated by CAL to the Library of Congress in 1986 and has been accessible only by personal visit to the Library since then.
- Stephen Thergesen
Using the current official IAU constellation boundaries — and taking into account the variable precession speed and the rotation of the ecliptic — the equinoxes shift through the constellations in the Astronomical Julian calendar years (in which the year 0 = 1 BC, -1 = 2 BC, etc.) as follows:[1] The March equinox passed from Taurus into Aries in year -1865, passed into Pisces in year -67, will pass into Aquarius in year 2597, will pass into Capricornus in year 4312. It passed along (but not into) a 'corner' of Cetus on 0°10' distance in year 1489. The June solstice passed from Leo into Cancer in year -1458, passed into Gemini in year -10, passed into Taurus in December year 1989, will pass into Aries in year 4609. The September equinox passed from Libra into Virgo in year -729, will pass into Leo in year 2439. The December solstice passed from Capricornus into Sagittarius in year -130, will pass into Ophiuchus in year 2269, and will pass into Scorpius in year 3597.
- Stephen Thergesen
Lawmakers in at least 11 states are already expecting to have to make midyear cuts totaling more than $22-billion, with higher education sharing the pain.
- Stephen Thergesen
Ventma.com was started by five average individuals that were all looking for the same thing. A centralized place to vent their frustrations in a safe, non-violent manner. At the same time having fun getting even while letting it all out.
- Stephen Thergesen
Tim Berners-Lee and others are gathering at CERN on Friday to fete the document that laid the intellectual groundwork for the World Wide Web.
- Stephen Thergesen
EslTool.com is a site designed for ESL or EFL teachers who want to write evaluations, student assessments, and report cards more easily.
- Stephen Thergesen
In many cases, it is better to type non-English scripts with special non-English keyboards which utilize fonts which are encoded for that script and therefore more portable to the Internet.
- Stephen Thergesen