8.0485 Qs: Sesame; ClipArt; Public Domain; E-Dickens; AOL (5/98

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 3 May 1995 14:10:35 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0485. Wednesday, 3 May 1995.


(1) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (13 lines)
From: Mark Calkins <eahg273@ea.oac.uci.edu>
Subject: Open Sesame

(2) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:52:23 -0400 (EDT) (16 lines)
From: "James O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: reaching human bosses at aol

(3) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (20 lines)
From: Michael Wolf Irmscher <irmscher@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: texts by Charles Dickens online?

(4) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 07:53:14 EDT (31 lines)
From: George Byrnes <BYRNES@ADMIN.HumberC.ON.CA>
Subject: Public Domain Query

(5) Date: Mon, 01 May 95 07:29:56 PDT (18 lines)
From: Judy Reynolds <JUDYR@SJSUVM1>
Subject: Clipart for history

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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:58:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Calkins <eahg273@ea.oac.uci.edu>
Subject: Open Sesame

Dear collegues--

Does the "sesame" in "open sesame" refer simply to the sesame seed? And
if so, what does a sesame seed have to do with magic? opening caves? etc.?
In other words, is there any symbolism or mythology associated with the
sesame seed? Thanks much.

Mark R. Calkins
eahg273@ea.oac.uci.edu
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:52:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "James O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: reaching human bosses at aol

I need to make contact with responsible parties at AOL.COM about the way
they present to their subscribers an Internet resource for which I am
responsible. I can find neither 800 nor local phone number, and the
addresses from which they originally wrote to me to set up our
arrangement do not answer mail. Could anyone supply either phone or
e-mail guidance to reaching them?

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu


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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:22:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Wolf Irmscher <irmscher@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: texts by Charles Dickens online?

Dear electronic text searcher:

Does anybody know of a site (or sites) where texts
by Charles Dickens (espec. "Bleak House" and "Hard Times")
are electronically stored and accessible via the Internet?
It would already help to know whether there exists a general
directory of literay texts stored on-line.


Thanks for your time.


Michael Irmscher
Dept. of German Studies
Stanford Univeristy
irmscher@leland.stanford.edu
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 07:53:14 EDT
From: George Byrnes <BYRNES@ADMIN.HumberC.ON.CA>
Subject: Public Domain Query

I'm preparing a hypertext supplement for a two-year college level humanities
course that will contain mostly portions of works that are in the public
domain, e.g., Hobbes' introduction to "Leviathan." The idea is to augment
discussions of key historical figures and concepts with original materials.

Our course examines five themes:

1) Why are we the way we are?
2) What is the nature and implications of social change?
3) What is the relationship of individual to collective.
4) What is the role of science?
5) What is the role of the arts?

I would appreciate any suggestions of public domain materials that speak to
these themes. Recommendations of specific sections of longer works, say, of
a scene in a play, would also be very helpful.

Thank you.

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Date: Mon, 01 May 95 07:29:56 PDT
From: Judy Reynolds <JUDYR@SJSUVM1>
Subject: Clipart for history

Hi,
I'm looking for clipart that illustrates events or historical periods.
Most of the clipart I've seen is either too juvenile, directional or has
to do with the military or medicine. I would especially like to find
illustrations of the colonial period of US history and pictures of women.
Thanks for any suggestions. Judy

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