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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
SONGBOOK: BROADWAY’S FUTURE
Monday, January 25, 2016, 6 p.m.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and
Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium
Fully accessible to wheelchairs
A concert of new music by Broadway composers and lyricists
sung by Broadway vocalists, Presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul and
directed by John Znidarsic.
The Library for the Performing Arts is proud to offer free
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information. All programs are subject to last minute change or cancellation.
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2016/01/25/songbook-broadways-future
*** PRIMARY STAGES: ONLINE CLASSES ***
Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) offers
classes online open to writers in New York, New Mexico, New Zealand, and
everywhere in between. Our online classes help you create or polish a draft of
your new play or TV script through weekly assignments and online lectures,
providing the necessary structure and deadlines to those outside the tri-state
area or with unpredictable schedules. This spring, take THE FIRST DRAFT with
Caridad Svich or Jen Silverman, THE REWRITE with Caridad Svich, or TELEVISION
WRITING with Jason Grote. Payment plans available.
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*** PLAYWRIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES ***
The Navigators Theater Company is looking for Sci-Fi plays for
the 2nd Annual LIFT-OFF NEW PLAY SERIES. Looking for Ten-Minute Plays,
One-Acts, and Full-Lengths. All plays must have Sci-Fi elements as a major part
of the story. Ten-Minute plays and One-Acts will have production elements.
Full-lengths will have a reading. The submission fee will be waived for members
of the Dramatist Guild.
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The INKtank Lab seeks to select 3-4 writers of color who are
invested in the revision process of their own work as well of their peers in an
artistic community environment with a shared intention of honest feedback and
earnest conviviality. The lab cycle will be facilitated by INKtank alums,
Mariana Carreño King (Miss 0744890) and Raquel Almazan (La Esperanza, or The
Hopefulness). INKtank is a collaborative process where Rising Circle will
provide structure and resources while playwrights create what happens
week-to-week based on the needs of each writer.
***
Blunt Objects Theatre is proud to announce that we are now
accepting entries for the return of our “Bacchanalia!” New Play Readings
Festival, coming to New Orleans for 2016. All submissions must adhere to the
theme “This is not the future I was promised.” Lament about your lack of
hoverboards, flying cars, or employment, how Captain Planet failed, how Marx
told you capitalism would be dead by now, or how Back to the Future lied about
the Cubs. Give us your funniest, most heartbreaking, and above all else your
best plays with the following parameters:
Adhering at least broadly to this year’s theme
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION on these and other opportunities see
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*** ALAN RICKMAN ***
SEMINAR
Scenes from the play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIVCtBz1Ivo
Rickman discusses SEMINAR on Theater Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q1N735lExI
***
HARRY POTTER
Alan Rickman Talks “Severus Snape”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQc7oKh8KjM
Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq3V3_HWIs8
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SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 130 (voice only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP06F0yynic
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OLD TIMES
Rickman on stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7yLuaNE4A4&list=PL7238891509060B0D
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MONTY PYTHON - THE FOUR YORKSHIREMEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lb-2VaJYPw
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IMPERSONATED
By JOHN SESSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3OyvbJkj4
BY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH/ JIMMY FALLON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnbN3Pya_AM
***
ALAN RICKMAN TAKES JIMMY TO TASK FOR HIS IMPERSONATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxwLQsM0iM
I'm a big big Fan of
Bukowski
MISH
MOSH..........................................
Mish
Mash: noun \ˈmish-ˌmash, -ˌmäsh\ A : hodgepodge, jumble “The painting was just a mishmash of colors
and abstract shapes as far as we could tell”. Origin
Middle English & Yiddish; Middle English mysse masche, perhaps
reduplication of mash mash; Yiddish mish-mash, perhaps reduplication of mishn
to mix. First Known Use: 15th century
Worth his weight in gold Ceremony for an Indian raja, 1930s
3 Koreans shot for pulling up rails as a protest to the Japanese occupation of Korea, 1919
Catholic rebels hanged along a railroad track by the Mexican government during the Cristero War, 1927.
Mystic Mountain,’ a pillar of dust in the Carina Nebula
Sculpture this and Sculpture that
Portrait of a Man 150 BC
TODAY'S ALLEGED MOB GUY
The real Goodfellas
The real Goodfellas
The real Paulie Varrio and above, the film version
The real Henry Hill and above the film version
The real Billy Batts Bentvena and the film version above
Tommy DiSimmone and above the film version
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE POP ART?
A swim-mobile, 1960.
Coney Island. By Stephen Salmier
Garry Winogrand, Woman Riding Bicycle, 1975.
Givenchy’s beige jersey Bag dress, September 1957. By Yale Joel.
New York, 1961. By Constantine Manos.
Spring Street subway station, 1961. By Constantine Manos.
Street scene, 1959. By William Klein.
Tenth Street At Night, 1960. By John Cohen.
The art of human movement
Hampus Westin - Svenska Balettskolan
THE ART OF PULP
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
John
William Tuohy is a writer who lives in Washington DC. He holds an MFA in
writing from Lindenwood University.
He is
the author of No Time to Say Goodbye: Memoirs of a Life in Foster Care and
Short Stories from a Small Town. He is also the author of numerous non-fiction
on the history of organized crime including the ground break biography of
bootlegger Roger Tuohy "When Capone's Mob Murdered Touhy" and
"Guns and Glamour: A History of Organized Crime in Chicago."
His
non-fiction crime short stories have appeared in The New Criminologist,
American Mafia and other publications. John won the City of Chicago's Celtic
Playfest for his work The Hannigan's of Beverly, and his short story fiction
work, Karma Finds Franny Glass, appeared in AdmitTwo Magazine in October of
2008.
His
play, Cyberdate.Com, was chosen for a public performance at the Actors Chapel
in Manhattan in February of 2007 as part of the groups Reading Series for New
York project. In June of 2008, the play won the Virginia Theater of The First
Amendment Award for best new play.
Contact
John:
MYWRITERSSITE.BLOGSPOT.COM
JWTUOHY95@GMAIL.COM
HERE'S MY LATEST BOOKS.....
This is a
book of short stories taken from the things I saw and heard in my childhood in
the factory town of Ansonia in southwestern Connecticut.
Most of
these stories, or as true as I recall them because I witnessed these events
many years ago through the eyes of child and are retold to you now with the pen
and hindsight of an older man. The only exception is the story Beat Time which is based on the
disappearance of Beat poet Lew Welch. Decades before I knew who Welch was, I
was told that he had made his from California to New Haven, Connecticut, where
was an alcoholic living in a mission. The notion fascinated me and I filed it
away but never forgot it.
The
collected stories are loosely modeled around Joyce’s novel, Dubliners (I also borrowed from the
novels character and place names. Ivy Day, my character in “Local Orphan is
Hero” is also the name of chapter in Dubliners,
etc.) and like Joyce I wanted to write about my people, the people I knew as a
child, the working class in small town America and I wanted to give a complete
view of them as well. As a result the stories are about the divorced, Gays,
black people, the working poor, the middle class, the lost and the found, the
contented and the discontented.
Conversely
many of the stories in this book are about starting life over again as a result
of suicide (The Hanging Party, Small Town
Tragedy, Beat Time) or from a near death experience (Anna Bell Lee and the Charge of the Light Brigade, A Brief Summer)
and natural occurring death. (The Best
Laid Plans, The Winter Years, Balanced and Serene)
With the
exception of Jesus Loves Shaqunda, in
each story there is a rebirth from the death. (Shaqunda is reported as having
died of pneumonia in The Winter Years)
Sal, the
desperate and depressed divorcee in Things
Change, changes his life in Lunch
Hour when asks the waitress for a date and she accepts. (Which we learn in
Closing Time, the last story in the book) In The Arranged Time, Thisby is given the option of change and whether
she takes it or, we don’t know. The death of Greta’s husband in A Matter of Time has led her to the diner
and into the waiting arms of the outgoing and loveable Gabe.
Although
the book is based on three sets of time (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and the
diner is opened in the early morning and closed at night, time stands still
inside the Diner. The hour on the big clock on the wall never changes time and
much like my memories of that place, everything remains the same.
http://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-Small-William-Tuohy/dp/1517270456/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444164878&sr=1-1&keywords=short+stories+from+a+small+town
The Valley
Lives
By Marion Marchetto, author of The
Bridgewater Chronicles on October 15, 2015
Short
Stores from a Small Town is set in The Valley (known to outsiders as The Lower
Naugatuck Valley) in Connecticut. While the short stories are contemporary they
provide insight into the timeless qualities of an Industrial Era community and
the values and morals of the people who live there. Some are first or second
generation Americans, some are transplants, yet each takes on the mantle of
Valleyite and wears it proudly. It isn't easy for an author to take the reader
on a journey down memory lane and involve the reader in the life stories of a
group of seemingly unrelated characters. I say seemingly because by book's end
the reader will realize that he/she has done more than meet a group of loosely
related characters.
We
meet all of the characters during a one-day time period as each of them finds
their way to the Valley Diner on a rainy autumn day. From our first meeting
with Angel, the educationally challenged man who opens and closes the diner, to
our farewell for the day to the young waitress whose smile hides her despair we
meet a cross section of the Valley population. Rich, poor, ambitious, and not
so ambitious, each life proves that there is more to it beneath the surface.
And the one thing that binds these lives together is The Valley itself. Not so
much a place (or a memory) but an almost palpable living thing that becomes a
part of its inhabitants.
Let
me be the first the congratulate author John William Tuohy on a job well done.
He has evoked the heart of The Valley and in doing so brought to life the
fabric that Valleyites wear as a mantle of pride. While set in a specific
region of the country, the stories that unfold within the pages of this slim
volume are similar to those that live in many a small town from coast to coast.
By Sandra Mendyk
Just
read "Short Stories from a Small Town," and couldn't put it down!
Like Mr. Tuohy's other books I read, they keep your interest, especially if
you're from a small town and can relate to the lives of the people he writes
about. I recommend this book for anyone interested in human interest stories.
His characters all have a central place where the stories take place--a
diner--and come from different walks of life and wrestle with different
problems of everyday life. Enjoyable and thoughtful.
I loved how the author wrote about
"his people"
By kathee
A
touching thoughtful book. I loved how the author wrote about "his
people", the people he knew as a child from his town. It is based on sets
of time in the local diner, breakfast , lunch and dinner, but time stands still
... Highly recommend !
WONDERFUL book, I loved it!
By
John M. Cribbins
What
wonderful stories...I just loved this book.... It is great how it is written
following, breakfast, lunch, dinner, at a diner. Great characters.... I just
loved it....
In
1962, six year old John Tuohy, his two brothers and two sisters entered Connecticut’s
foster care system and were promptly split apart. Over the next ten years, John
would live in more than ten foster homes, group homes and state schools, from
his native Waterbury to Ansonia, New Haven, West Haven, Deep River and
Hartford. In the end, a decade later, the state returned him to the same home
and the same parents they had taken him from. As tragic as is funny compelling
story will make you cry and laugh as you journey with this child to overcome
the obstacles of the foster care system and find his dreams.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/0692361294/
http://amemoirofalifeinfostercare.blogspot.com/
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir/dp/
Skydome
is a Russian company that firmly believes the house is the most important place
in human life because it’s where decisions are made, children grow up and the
place where our lives take place. We’re inclined to agree, but Skydome took it
one step further by creating an entire line of Skydome Cabins designed to be
stylish, durable and efficient. Each Skydome is dome shaped to provide better
resistance to heat loss, additional strength, seismic resistance and energy
resistance. It’s going to be hard to hang art in a domed structure like this,
but with the amount of benefits the shape provides it’s a wonder more people
haven’t designed something like this in the past. Unfortunately, pricing
information isn’t available yet.
The
invention of the musical record
On
January 2, 1900, a company set up by Emile Berliner, inventor of the
gramophone, began manufacturing seven-inch, single-sided records at a plant in
Montreal. Berliner had taken out a Canadian patent on his invention in 1897 and
had begun manufacturing the talking machines at the Montreal facility. Berliner
began manufacturing 10-inch discs in 1901, and 12-inch records two years later.
Double-sided records were not introduced until 1908. The Berliner Company
manufactured records in Canada for 20 years. It was taken over in 1924 by the
Victor Talking Machine Company, the forerunner to RCA Victor.
Just war
theory
Just
war theory (jus bellum iustum) is a doctrine of military ethics studied by
theologians, ethicists, policy makers, and military leaders. The purpose of the
doctrine is to ensure war is morally justifiable through a series of criteria,
all of which must be met for a war to be considered just. The criteria are
split into two groups: ‘the right to go to war’ (jus ad bellum) and ‘right
conduct in war’ (jus in bello). The first concerns the morality of going to war
and the second with moral conduct within war. Recently there have been calls
for the inclusion of a third category of just war theory - jus post bellum -
dealing with the morality of post-war settlement and reconstruction. Just
War theory postulates that war, while terrible, is not always the worst option.
There may be responsibilities so important, atrocities that can be prevented or
outcomes so undesirable they justify war.
GOOD WORDS TO HAVE…………
The Victorians
French
National Assembly to vote on universal basic income study
The country's parliament will
consider launching an economic feasibility study for the benefit reform
Jon Stone @joncstone Wednesday 13
January 201611 comments
Members of France's National
Assembly are to vote on the principle of a so-called “universal basic income”
for the first time.
Former minister Delphine Batho,
an MP from Francois Hollande’s ruling Socialist Party, has tabled an amendment asking
the government to launch a feasibility study of the policy.
A universal basic income is the
idea of paying all citizens a flat, unconditional income, unusually instead of
existing policies like means-tested benefits.
Proponents of the idea say it would
save on welfare administration costs, reduce the poverty traps of traditional
welfare states, be fair to people who have jobs, and give people more autonomy
in general.
Ms Batho’s amendment suggests
that the basic income might be a suitable response to the challenges of the
“digital revolution and the changes it has brought to work”.
The amendment, filed on 11
January, calls for the Government to produce a detailed report on the topic by
no later than June of this year.
That report would have to include
“a macro-economic feasibility study, a comparative impact study on different
approaches to basic income, as well as an analysis on the experiments on the
subject that are currently going on, on a local and an international scale”.
The amendment applies to the
Government’s Bill for a Digital Republic, which seeks to modernise France’s
legal framework around technology and the internet.
Interest in the proposed policy,
which has support on both the left and right of politics, has surged in recent
months.
Finland has launched similar
feasibility study to the one proposed in France, and Switzerland rejected a
proposal for a very high basic income in a recent national referendum.
Last month the respected
think-tank the RSA suggested that the UK adopt a universal basic income of £71
a week for all adults, with children also getting a payment similar to child
benefit.
“The welfare state has become
incredibly complex whilst locking those it seeks to help in a vicious circle of
low pay, insecurity and an intrusive state. The RSA doubts the current system
can be fixed,” said Anthony Painter, the report’s author.
“A system of Universal Basic
Income is the best alternative to help people improve their own lives over time
– it provides better security to support people’s needs to work, learn, set up
a business or care for their family.”
During the Labour leadership
contest Jeremy Corbyn, who now leads the party, said he was interested in the
idea of a “guaranteed social wage” – a similar proposal – but that he believed
there were issued that had to be worked through.
The Liberal Democrat manifesto
advocated a basic income in the early 1990s but this proposal was scrapped. The
Green Party supports the idea of a universal basic income.
AND HERE'S SOME ANIMALS FOR YOU...................
Getting that selfi just right
Here's some animals for you.....
Getting that selfi just right
Here's some animals for you.....
GOOD LAWS NOT TO HAVE
In the town of Cicero, Illinois
you should know it still is illegal to hum on Sundays in public.
In the city of Chicago proper, it
actually is illegal to fly a kite, despite pleas from Julie Andrews.
In the Pullman neighborhood, it
still is illegal to drink beer from a bucket while sitting on a curb.
In Collinsville, w it is against
the law to wear sagging pants.
One law in Michigan that never
has been repealed reads a woman’s hair belongs to her spouse.
In Missouri, it still is illegal
to drive down the highway with an uncaged bear in your car.
Rights
advocate sister of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi arrested, put in same
prison
A prominent human rights advocate
has been taken into custody by Saudi Arabian police for campaigning for release
of her former husband, who is serving a 15-year term. She was reportedly put in
the same jail where her brother is incarcerated.
Samar Badawi received an
International Woman of Courage Award from the US State Department in 2012 for
defending women’s rights in the highly-conservative kingdom.
She was detained on Tuesday
morning and taken to a police station along with her two-year-old daughter,
Amnesty International reported. After four hours of questioning, she was
transferred to Dhaban Prison, the organization cited local activists as saying.
“Samar Badawi’s arrest today is
yet another alarming setback for human rights in Saudi Arabia and demonstrates
the extreme lengths to which the authorities are prepared to go in their
relentless campaign to harass and intimidate human rights defenders into silent
submission,” said Amnesty’s Philip Luther.
The detention appears to be
connected with Samar’s running a campaign for release of her former husband
Waleed Abu al-Khair and particularly publishing a photo of him in jail.
Al-Khair was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his work as a human rights
lawyer.
Among the people he defended was
Samar’s brother, Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000
cane strikes for insulting Islam and criticizing the Saudi government. The
popular blogger received 50 strikes just over a year ago, an act that drew
international condemnation.
Samar Badawi has been banned from
leaving Saudi Arabia last year, which prevented her from traveling to a human
rights event in Europe.
The detention comes two weeks
after Saudi Arabia executed 47 prisoners in one day, including prominent Shiite
cleric Nimr al-Nimr. The move antagonized Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies
with predominantly Shiite Muslim nations led by Iran, with Riyadh and Tehran
breaking diplomatic relations.
Women in ancient Greece and Rome with
surviving works or fragments
GREEK AUTHORS
PHILOSOPHY
Aesara of Lucania: “Only a fragment survives
of Aesara of Lucania’s Book on Human Nature, but it provides a key to
understanding the philosophies of Phintys, Perictione, and Theano II as well.
Aesara presents a familiar and intuitive natural law theory. She says that
through the activity of introspection into our own nature – specifically the
nature of a human soul – we can discover not only the natural philosophic
foundation for all of human law, but we can also discern the technical
structure of morality, positive law, and, it may be inferred, the laws of moral
psychology and of physical medicine. Aesara’s natural law theory concerns laws
governing three applications of moral law: individual or private morality, laws
governing the moral basis of the institution of the family, and, laws governing
the moral foundations of social institutions. By analyzing the nature of the
soul, Aesara says, we will understand the nature of law and of justice at the
individual, familial, and social levels.” - A History of Women Philosophers:
Volume I: Ancient Women Philosophers, 600 B.C.-500 A.D., by M.E. Waith
Melissa: “Melissa (3rd century BC)[1][2] was
a Pythagorean philosopher…Nothing is known about her life. She is known only
from a letter written to another woman named Cleareta (or Clearete). The letter
is written in a Doric Greek dialect dated to around the 3rd century BC.[2] The
letter discusses the need for a wife to be modest and virtuous, and stresses
that she should obey her husband.[2] The content has led to the suggestion that
it was written pseudonymously by a man.[2] On the other hand, the author of the
letter does not suggest that a woman is naturally inferior or weak, or that she
needs a man’s rule to be virtuous.[1]” -Wikipedia
Perictione (I and II): “Two works attributed
to Perictione have survived in fragments: On the Harmony of Women and On
Wisdom. Differences in language suggest that they were written by two different
people. Allen and Waithe identify them as Perictione I and Perictione II.
Plato’s mother was named Perictione, and Waithe argues that she should be
identified as the earlier Perictione, suggesting that similarities between
Plato’s Republic and On the Harmony of Women may not be the result of
Perictione reading Plato, but the opposite–the son learning philosophy from his
mother. On the Harmony of Women, however, is written in Ionic prose with
occasional Doric forms. This mixed dialect dates the work to the late fourth or
third centuries BC. The reference in On the Harmony of Women to women ruling
suggests the Hellenistic monarchies of the third century BC or later. On Wisdom
is written in Doric and is partly identical with a work by Archytas of the same
name. This work should be dated later, to the third or second centuries BC.
Both the dates of the works and their dialects mean Perictione as the mother of
Plato could not have written them. We then have two Pythagorean texts,
attributed to otherwise unknown women named Perictione who should be dated
perhaps one hundred years apart.” -Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An
Anthology, by I.M. Plant
Phintys: “Phintys (or Phyntis, Greek: Φίντυς;
4th or 3rd century BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher. Nothing is known about
her life, nor where she came from. She wrote a work on the correct behaviour of
women, two extracts of which are preserved by Stobaeus.” -Wikipedia
Ptolemais of Cyrene: “Ptolemais is known to
us through reference to her work by Porphyry in his Commentary on the Harmonics
of Ptolemy. He tells us that she came from Cyrene and gives the title of her
work, The Pythagorean Principles of Music, which he quotes. She is the only
known female musical theorist from antiquity. Her dates cannot be known for
sure. She clearly preceded Porphyry, who was born about AD 232; Didymus, who is
also quoted by Porphyry, knew Ptolemais’ work and may even have been Porphyry’s
source for it. This Didymus is probably the one who lived in the time of Nero,
giving us a date for Ptolemais of the first century AD or earlier…One of the
problems in dealing with this text is that it is in quotation. Porphyry does
not clearly distinguish between the text he quotes from Ptolemais and his own
discussion of the issues raised…A second issue is the problem of the accuracy
of the quotation. Porphyry says in the introduction to fragment 4 that he has
altered a few things in the quotation for the sake of brevity. We should not
assume that this is the only quotation to have suffered from editing. On the
other hand, where he quotes the same passage twice (fragment 3 is repeated
almost verbatim in fragment 4) his consistency is encouraging. Ptolemais’
extant work is a catechism, written as a series of questions and answers. She
discusses different schools of thought on harmonic theory, distinguishing
between the degree to which they gave importance to theory and perception. Her
text prefers the approach of Aristoxenus to that of the Pythagoreans, thus she
should not be thought a Pythagorean, despite the title of her work.” -Women
Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND MANUALS
Cleopatra the Alchemist: “Three treatises
survive. The Chrysopoeia consists only of a page of symbols and drawings. The
title of the treatise mentioned under Comarius, and also internal evidence of
Cleopatra’s treatise, indicate a first-century date. The symbols and drawings
of figures are probably the earliest drawings that we have of chemical
apparatus. A dialogue of Cleopatra and the philosophers’ exists in a mutilated
form; it is probably of the same date as the above treatises, but cannot be
attributed to
Cleopatra.” -A Survey of Greek Alchemy, by F.
Sherwood Taylor
Cleopatra the Physician: “How seriously, or
strictly, Galen’s chronological (and indeed conceptual) pairing of Heracleides
and Cleopatra should be taken is unclear. Cleopatra is certainly being located
earlier than the pharmacological writers who approach Crito’s Trajanic date
much more closely, but little more can be said than that. She was also cited by
the Byzantine physicians Aetius of Amida and Paul of Aegina in their,
respectively, sixth- and seventh-century A.D. medical encyclopaedias. Aetius
includes a single, sweet-smelling unguent of ‘Queen Cleopatra’, in a chapter on
facial applications. Paul incorporates a set of recipes for curling and dyeing
the hair taken from ‘the books of Cleopatra’ among others dealing with the head
and hair at the beginning of his third book. It has also been asserted that the
surviving meteorological treatise ascribed to Cleopatra at least started life
as a section of her Kostmetikon. Weights and measures, and in particular the
translation between units belonging to different times and places, are of vital
importance to all kinds of medical recipes. Still, none of this helps much in
pinning down this Cleopatra. She remains active sometime in the first century
B.C. or A.D., and, at least for Galen, stands, without comment, alongside
various male medical writers; though for Aetius she possesses more monarchic
qualities.” -Women, Writing and Medecine in the Classical World, by Rebecca
Flemming
Philaenis: “Philaenis of Samos (in Greek,
Φιλαινίς) was apparently a Greek courtesan of the 4th or 3rd centuries BC. She
was commonly said to be the author of a manual on courtship and sex. The poet
Aeschrion of Samos denied that his compatriot Philaenis was really the author
of this notorious work. Brief fragments of the manual, including the
introductory words, have been rediscovered among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri (P.Oxy.
2891).” -Wikipedia
Salpe*: “[Pliny the Elder] describes medicines
that were used for a wide range of ailments, from the common cold to
witchcraft, and he quotes from various medical texts that were available to
him. One of these was by Salpe. Pliny describes her as an obstetrix or
midwife…All we have of her work is Pliny’s paraphrase of six remedies…The
fragments of her work in Pliny are indirect: the original is reported rather
than quoted directly, and would have been in Greek, rather than Pliny’s Latin.
Pliny introduces each remedy with ‘Salpe tells us that…’ or words to that
effect…The same is true of the citations of the other medical writers in Pliny:
Olympias, Sotira, Lais and Elephantis.” -Women Writers of Ancient Greece and
Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
Nicobule: “Nicobule or Nicobula (Greek:
Νικοβούλη, Nikoboúlē) was a Greek woman who may have authored a work on the
life of Alexander the Great. No biographical details of her life have been
preserved. Since her name is Greek, scholars tend to suggest that she was most
probably writing during the first to third centuries AD, the period in which
Hellenistic scholarship was most interested in Alexander.[1]Athenaeus
(flourished circa A.D. 200) cites two passages[2][3] by Nicobule in reference
to Alexander the Great and, in particular, Alexander’s excessive drinking.[1]”
-Wikipedia
Pamphile of Epidaurus*: “Pamphile or Pamphila
of Epidaurus (Greek: Παμφίλη, Pamphílē; Latin: Pamphila; fl. ad 1st century)
was a historian who lived in the reign of Nero. According to the Suda she was
an Epidaurian;[1] Photius describes her as an Egyptian by birth or descent,[2]
which may be reconciled by supposing that she was a native of Epidaurus, and
that her family came from Egypt. Photius summarizes the preface to her work, in
which we learn that during the thirteen years she had lived with her husband,
from whom she was never absent for a single hour, she was constantly at work
upon her book, and that she diligently wrote down whatever she heard from her
husband and from the many other learned people who frequented their house, as
well as whatever she herself read in books…The principal work of Pamphile was
the Historical Commentaries, a history of Greece comprising thirty-three books.
Photius gives a general idea of the nature of its contents. The work was not
arranged according to subjects or according to any settled plan, but it was
more like a commonplace book, in which each piece of information was set down
as it fell under the notice of the writer, who stated that she believed this
variety would give greater pleasure to the reader. Photius considers the work
as one of great use, and supplying important information on many points in
history and literature. The estimation in which it was held in antiquity is
shown not only by the judgment of Photius, but also by the references to it in
the works of Aulus Gellius and Diogenes Laërtius, who appear to have availed
themselves of it to a considerable extent.” -Wikipedia
POETRY
Aelia Eudocia: “Aelia Eudocia Augusta /ˈiːli.ə juːˈdoʊʃə ɔːˈɡʌstə/ (Late Greek: Αιλία Ευδοκία Αυγούστα; c. 401
– 460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was the wife of Theodosius II, and a
prominent historical figure in understanding the rise of Christianity during
the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. Eudocia lived in a world where Greek
paganism and Christianity were existing side by side with both pagans and
unorthodox Christians being persecuted.[1] Although Eudocia’s work has been
mostly ignored by modern scholars, her poetry and literary work are great
examples of how her Christian faith and Greek upbringing were intertwined,
exemplifying a legacy that the Byzantine Empire left behind on the Christian
world… While Eudocia could have written a lot of literature after leaving the
court, only some of her work survived. Eudocia "wrote in hexameters, which
is the verse of epic poetry, on Christian themes.”[27] She wrote a poem
entitled The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian in two books, of which 800 lines
survived, and an inscription of a poem on the baths at Hammat Gader.[27] Her
most studied piece of literature is her Homeric cento, which has been analyzed
recently by a few modern scholars, such as Mark Usher and Brian Sower. Eudocia
is an understudied poet and has been neglected due to “lack of complete and
authoritative text.”[35] -Wikipedia
Anyte of Tegea: “Anyte of Tegea (Greek: Ἀνύτη Τεγεᾶτις, Anýtē Tegeâtis; fl. early 3rd
century BC) was an Arcadian poet, admired by her contemporaries and later
generations for her charming epigrams and epitaphs. Antipater of Thessalonica
listed her as one of the nine earthly muses.According to some sources, she was
the leader of a school of poetry and literature on Peloponnesus, which also
included the poet Leonidas of Tarentum.At least 18 of her epigrams, written in
the Doric dialect, survive in the Greek Anthology; an additional six are
doubtfully attributed to her. Even so, we have more complete poems by Anyte
than by any other Greek woman, since the nine books of Sappho survive only in
fragments.” -Wikipedia
Boeo: “Boeo (Greek Βοιὼ) was a Delphic priestess and hymnist, who
was a source for Pausanias’s notes on the history of the Delphic
oracle.Pausanias states that Boeo was a native Delphian, and quotes four lines
of a hymn that Boeo composed to Apollo, including a passage near its end where
she states that Olen was the first prophet and priest of Apollo, and that the
Delphic oracle was established by his disciples along with Hyperboreans.
Pausanias notes after quoting this that subsequent to its foundation, the
highest office at Delphi always was held by women priestesses. Boeo’s hymn is
now lost, except for the fragments preserved by Pausanias, the name of her work
is unknown, and no other biographical details are available.” -Wikipedia
Cleobulina: “Cleobulina (fl. c. 600 BC) There
remains doubt about the very existence of Cleobulina, although we have three
short pieces of poetry attributed to her, numerous references to her life in a
variety of ancient sources, and know of two plays named after her. Scholars
have long suspected that she may have been invented to personify a female
riddler…Despite the problems with her history, we should not lightly dismiss
her as an historical figure and poet.
Details of her life, like those of most ancient authors, were quickly forgotten.
What remained was a reputation for wit, learning, sound political judgment, and
philosophy arising from the works attributed to her. The association of
Cleobulina with Thales would date her to the early sixth century BC. While such
biographical detail is not to be trusted, we do know that she was already well
known in the fifth century BC. Athenaeus (10.448b) and Diogenes Laertius (1.89)
agree that she came from the city of Lindus on Rhodes. An otherwise unknown
author, Diotimus of Olympene, wrote a discussion of Cleobulina’s riddles, providing
evidence that a corpus of work attributed to her existed in his day. Only three
riddles surviving from Classical Greece are specifically attributed to her, and
the attribution of these poems has been questioned…However, against the
argument that she was merely a name we should note that the sources are quite
specific at attributing authorship of only three extant riddles to her–and no
others. She was not the only known composer of riddles.” -Women Writers of
Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
Corinna: “Corinna or Korinna (Greek: Κόριννα)
was an Ancient Greek poet, traditionally attributed to the 6th century BC.
According to ancient sources such as Plutarch and Pausanias, she came from
Tanagra in Boeotia, where she was a teacher and rival to the better-known
Theban poet Pindar. Although two of her poems survive in epitome, most of her
work is preserved in papyrus fragments…Many modern scholars have challenged the
traditional assertion that Corinna was a contemporary of Pindar, and claim a
much later date for her. Citing the Boeotian orthography of her surviving
fragments, David Campbell, who edited a modern version of her fragments, argues
that she lived about 200 BC, and that her traditional biography, replete with
contradictory accounts of her character, emerged as legend at a much later
date.” -Wikipedia
Demo: “Demo was the author of one short
epigram which she composed at the Colossus of Memnon and had inscribed on the
statue. Her name indicates that she was Greek, but hers was not a rare name in
the Hellenistic world, being attested both in Egypt and elsewhere, and so she
cannot be further identified. The date of her visit to the Colossus cannot be
determined with any certainty, except to note that her epigram was inscribed
high on the left leg after the two inscriptions which frame it and so must be
dated after them. One of these is dated, and so we can determine Demo’s visit
to Memnon was on 25th February AD 196, or some time later…Demo, like Julia
Balbilla, adopts an Aeolic dialect for her verse and includes Homeric allusion,
demonstrating that she too has had the traditional Greek education of the
wealthy class. She calls herself a protege of the Muses and a lover of song,
traditional self-images for lyric poets. The persona the author adopts, that of
a poet, hints at a vocation, and of other work no longer extant.” -Women
Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
Dionysia: “Dionysia (fl. AD 122) “On the
statue of Memnon at Thebes there is one short epigram by Dionysia, who is
otherwise unknown. The text was inscribed by the same person as two other
inscriptions, one of which is dated to 5 September AD 122, giving us a good
indication of the date of Dionysia’s visit to Thebes. Dionysia may well have
travelled to the site in company with the authors of those other (prose)
inscriptions, Julia Saturnina, Lucius Funisulanus Charisius and his wife
Fulvia. Funisulanus was a Roman official in Egypt, strategos of the nomoi of
Hermonthis and Latopolis. Dionysia (whose name tells us she was Greek) was
mixing in respectable Roman company, if not the elevated circle of Julia
Balbilla. The inscription adds to our evidence for tourism in Roman Egypt.”
-Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
Erinna: “Erinna (/ɨˈrɪnə/; Greek: Ἤριννα) was a Greek
poet, a contemporary and friend of Sappho, a native of Rhodes or the adjacent
island of Telos or even possibly Tenos, who flourished about 600 BC (however,
according to Eusebius, she was well known in 352 BC[1]). Her best-known poem
was the Distaff (Greek Ἠλᾰκάτη), written in a
mixture of Aeolic and Doric Greek and consisting of 300 dactylic hexameter
lines, of which only four were extant until 1928. Three epigrams ascribed to
her in the Palatine anthology probably belong to a later date, though some
debate on the first epigram exists.In 1928, a papyrus (PSI 1090) was found that
contained 54 fragmentary lines written by her, in six pieces[2] now located in
the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. The poem is a lament (θρῆνος) on the death of
her friend Baucis (Βαυκίς), a disciple of Sappho, shortly before her
wedding.” - Wikipedia
Hedyle: “Hedyle (Greek: Ἥδυλη, Hḗdylē; fl. 3rd century
bc) was an Athenian iambic poet, daughter of Moschine and mother of Hedylus.
She wrote a poem entitled Scylla, from which a passage is cited by Athenaeus.”
-Wikipedia
Melinno: “Melinno (Ancient Greek: Μελιννῶ) was a Greek lyric poet. She probably lived
in the 2nd century BCE, and was probably from Epizephyrian Locris in Magna
Graecia, but because little biographical material on her is available, this is
uncertain. She is credited with the work commonly called Ode to Rome, which
presents unique problems in the analysis of Greek poetry and is viewed as
influential in the future course of Greek and Latin poetry…Melinno is known for
five Sapphic stanzas comprising an Ode to Rome, praise poetry addressing the
personified deity Roma. Its simultaneous praise of Rome but lack of references
to the principate leads scholars to believe that it dates to the Republican
Era, after the Pyrrhic War and the Roman conquest of Italy, but before the
formation of the Roman Empire.[1]Melinno’s work is important because it is a
Hellenistic attempt at a revival of the moribund Sapphic stanza in Greek,
keeping alive a tradition in the Greek world that that was already being
translated to Latin by Horace, and would continue with Catullus. But the
Sapphic metre of Horace and Catullus imitated the flowing style of Sappho and
Alcaeus, in which thoughts can cross metrical boundaries to reach their
completion in another line or stanza, while Melinno does not.” -Wikipedia
Moero: “Moero (Μοιρώ) or Myro (Μυρώ) was a
poet of the 3rd century BCE from the city of Byzantium. She was the wife of
Andromachus Philologus and the mother (according to other sources, a daughter)
of Homerus of Byzantium, the tragedian. Antipater of Thessalonica includes
Moero in his list of famous poetesses. She wrote epic, elegiac, and lyric
poetry, but little has survived. Athenaeus quotes from her epic poem, Mnemosyne
(Μνημοσύνη),[1] and two dedicatory epigrams of hers are included in the Greek
Anthology. She also wrote a hymn to Poseidon and a collection of poems called
Arai (Ἀραί).[2] The Suda
mentions her under the name Myro, and the Myro mentioned by Eustathios is
probably the same person.” -Wikipedia
Myrtis of Anthedon*: “Myrtis of Anthedon (6th
century B.C.) was an Ancient Greek poet and is purported to be the teacher of
Pindar of Thebes and Corinna of Tanagra.[1] Scholars believe that she was the earliest
in the line of lyric poets who emerged from the district of Boeotia (Anthedon
was a small town in the district of Boeotia, which adjoins Attica to the
north-west). Of Myrtis’ poetry, all we know is what can be surmised from
Plutarch’s (himself Boeotian) paraphrase of one of her prose poems.[1]
Plutrarch cites Myrtis as the source for the story that explained why women
were forbidden to set foot in a sacred grove dedicated to a local hero,
Eunostos, in the Boeotian town of Tanagra.” -Wikipedia
Nossis: “Nossis (Greek: Νοσσίς) was an
ancient Greek woman epigrammist and poet, c. 300 BCE, who lived in southern
Italy, at Locri. Her epigrams were inspired by Sappho, whom she claims to
rival.[1]Twelve epigrams of hers (one of which is perhaps spurious) survive in
the Greek Anthology.Meleager of Gadara, in his Garland, includes her among the
most distinguished Greek singers. Antipater of Thessalonica ranks her among the
nine poets who deserved the honor to compete with the Muses. Nossis states in
her work that her mother was named Theuphila, the daughter of Cleouchas. In
another epigram, she mentions that she had a daughter named Melinna,[2] who is
possibly the poet Melinno.” -Wikipedia
Praxilla: “Praxilla was a versatile lyric
poet from Sicyon. A contemporary of Telesilla, she lived in the mid-fifth
century BC. Antipater of Thessalonica lists her first among his canon of nine
‘immortal-tongued’ women poets (Anth.Pal.9.26.3), and Lysippus, a famous fourth
century sculptor, also from Sicyon, made a bronze statue of her, evidence of
the high esteem in which she was held…Eight fragments of her work have
survived, but in only five of them are any of her words quoted. Nevertheless
these fragments exemplify the range of her poetry. She wrote drinking songs
(scolia), hymns and dithyrambs (choral odes performed at festivals of
Dionysus). In addition, she was remembered for a dactylic metre she invented
(or at least made famous), which was named Praxilleion after her.” -Women
Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
Sappho: “Sappho (/ˈsæfoʊ/; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔ̌ː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω, Psappho [psápːʰɔː]) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island
of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. She
was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around
570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her
poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has
been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving
fragments.” -Wikipedia
Telesilla: “Telesilla was a lyric poet who
lived in Argos in the fifth century BC. She became famous for saving the city
when it was attacked by the Spartans in 494 BC. In the story told by Pausanias,
after the massacre of the Argive fighting men by the Spartans, Telesilla
rallied all those left in the city able to bear arms, including the women, and
drove off the invaders. The story has been considered apocryphal, yet, although
their role in the battle may have been exaggerated, there is nothing improbable
in women joining in the last ditch defence of the city…Telesilla’s role in the
battle, if not historical, may have been assumed later from something she
wrote…Telesilla was admired in antiquity for her poetry. The Argives honored
her by erecting an engraved stele on which she was depicted in front of the
temple of Aphrodite. Tatian tells us a statue of Telesilla was made by
Niceratus (a sculptor of the first century BC) and Antipater of Thessalonica includes
her in his canon of nine women poets, calling her ‘glorious Telesilla’.
Eusebius considered her as famous as the comic poet Crates and the lyric poet
Bacchylides. Yet of her poetry, only one fragment of more than one word has
survived…Telesilla was also remembered for the metrical innovation of her lyric
poetry. Fragment 1 is an example of a Telesillean metre: a two and a half foot
glyconic line which was named after her.” -Women Writers of Ancient Greece and
Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
*Work(s) survive only in summary or
paraphrase by other authors
LATIN AUTHORS
POETRY
Caecilia Trebulla: Caecilia Trebulla composed
three epigrams on her visit to the statue of Memnon, proudly placing her name
above her verses. She is otherwise unknown. The first poem seems to have been
inscribed on Memnon’s left leg before the visit of Julia Balbilla, whose first
poem was inscribed immediately below it. This juxtaposition suggests she
visited Memnon not long before Julia Balbilla in AD 130….Her command of literary
Greek is typical of the well educated Roman aristocracy. She empathises with
the statue, hearing its voice both as a personal greeting and as a lament for
Memnon’s fate. The popular belief was that Memnon ‘sang’ to his mother, Eos
(Dawn); Caecilia is reminded by Memnon of her own mother whom she includes in
her prayers.” - Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, by I.M.
Plant
Eucheria: “Eucheria (fl. late 5th or 6th
centuries AD) Eucheria is known to us from one poem which has survived in her
name. The Latin vocabulary she uses suggests that the poem was composed in
Aquitania in the late fifth or sixth centuries AD. The text implies that its
author is a well born woman who despises a man of lower class who has sought to
marry her…While Eucheria cannot be identified with any certainty, her family
name is well attested among the Roman nobility in Gaul: a Eucherius of
senatorial rank was bishop of Lyons in the early to mid-fifth century AD…Satire
is regarded as a genre little used by women writers, though Sulpicia and
Eucheria provide notable exceptions.” -Women Writers of Ancient Greece and
Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
Faltonia Betitia Proba: “Faltonia Betitia
Proba (c. 306/c. 315 - c. 353/c. 366) was a Latin Roman Christian poet, possibly
the most influential Latin poet of Late Antiquity. A member of one of the most
influential aristocratic families, she composed the Cento vergilianus de
laudibus Christi, a cento composed with verses by Virgil re-ordered to form an
epic poem centred on the life of Jesus. Proba belonged to an influential family
of the 4th century, the Petronii Probi. Her father was Petronius Probianus,
Roman consul in 322, while her mother was probably called Demetria.[1] She had
a brother, Petronius Probinus, appointed consul in 341; also her grandfather,
Pompeius Probus, had been a consul, in 310. Proba married Clodius Celsinus
Adelphus, praefectus urbi of Rome in 351, thus creating a bond with the
powerful gens Anicia. They had at least two sons, Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus
Olybrius and Faltonius Probus Alypius, who became high imperial officers. She
also had a granddaughter Anicia Faltonia Proba, daughter of Olybrius and
Tirrania Anicia Juliana.”-Wikipedia
Julia Balbilla: Julia Balbilla (Greek: ἡ Ἰουλία Βαλβίλλα, 72 CE – after
130 CE) was a Roman noble woman and poet.[1] Whilst in Thebes, touring Egypt as
part of the imperial court of Hadrian, she inscribed four epigrams which have
survived.[2]…Balbilla was a court poetess and friend of Hadrian and companion
or lady in waiting to his wife, Vibia Sabina. In 129 CE, she accompanied them
to the Valley of the Kings in Ancient Egypt.[6] Balbilla was commissioned to
record the party’s return visit from 19 to 21 November 130 CE.[7] Balbilla
inscribed four epigrams in Aeolic Greek, known as ‘epigrammata’, on the legs of
the Colossi of Memnon. [8] The statue reminded Balbilla of the sculptures on
Mount Nemrut and the mausoleum of her ancestor, Antiochus I Theos of
Commagene.” -Wikipedia
Sulpicia I: The earlier Sulpicia…is said to
have lived in the reign of Augustus and have been probably the daughter of
Servius Sulpicius Rufus and a niece of Messalla Corvinus, an important patron
of literature. Her verses were preserved with those of Tibullus in the third
book of elegies, the Appendix tibulliana,[2] and were for a long time
attributed to him. They consist of six elegiac poems (3.13-18) addressed to a
lover called Cerinthus. Cerinthus was most likely a pseudonym, in the style of
the day (e. g. Catullus’ Lesbia, Ovid’s Corinna). Cerinthus has sometimes been
thought to refer to the Cornutus addressed by Tibullus in two of his Elegies,
probably an aristocratic Caecilius Cornutus. Recent criticism has tended away
from attempting to identify Cerinthus with an historical figure in favour of
noting the literary implications of the pseudonym… Hallett argues for
increasing the numbers of poems attributed to Sulpicia to include poems 8-12
from the Corpus Tibullianum,which had previously been attributed to the amicus
Sulpiciae (friend of Sulpicia).” -Wikipedia
Sulpicia II: The later Sulpicia lived during
the reign of Domitian and was apparently married to a man named Calenus. She is
praised by Martial (x.35, 38), who compares her to Sappho, as a model of wifely
devotion and as the writer of poems that teach “girls to please one husband and
husbands to please one wife.”[11] Two lines of iambic trimeters attributed to
Sulpicia survive in the scholia to Juvenal…The fragment seems to confirm the
characterization in Martial: sexually explicit poetry about marital love.”
-Wikipedia
EPISTLES
Cornelia Africana: “Cornelia Scipionis
Africana (190 – 100 BC) was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio
Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla…The manuscripts
of Cornelius Nepos, the earliest Latin biographer (ca. 110-24 BC), include
several excerpts from a letter supposedly composed by Cornelia to Gaius (her
younger son). While not all scholars accept these as authentic,[8] if they
indeed are, they would make Cornelia one of only four Roman women whose
writings survive to the present day. The letter may be dated to just before
Gaius’ tribunate in 122 BC. (Gaius would be killed the following year in 121
BC, over a decade after the death of his brother Tiberius in 133 BC.) Cornelia’s
letter documents how Roman women wielded considerable influence in political
families.” -Wikipedia
RELIGIOUS PROSE
Egeria: “Egeria’s Journal is a diary of her
pilgrimage to the Holy Land followed by an account of the liturgical year and
liturgy in Jerusalem. The evidence suggests that Egeria was a wealthy member of
a religious community in Galicia in western Spain, perhaps even an abbess, who
composed the account of her pilgrimage for her fellow Religious–readers she
addresses as ‘Your Charity’, ‘revered ladies…my sisters’. The text was not
intended for general publication, which may explain its rough and repetitive
style. Egeria’s text is of great historical significance. Her description of
the liturgy and religious observances in fifth-century Jerusalem is valuable.
She also adds to our knowledge of biblical sites and religious buildings in her
day. The testament of her faith, the religious objectives of her journeys, her
faith in the physical reality of the Old and New Testament stories, provide
insight into the beliefs and objectives of the Christian pilgrim.” -Women
Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
Perpetua: “An autobiographical prose work is
attributed to Perpetua, a Christian martyr, put to death in Carthage during a persecution
under Septimius Severus in AD 202-03. The account of her martyrdom includes a
section in the first person, which purports to be Perpetua’s own account of her
trial and time in prison before her execution. If her authorship is accepted,
this text gains particular significance as the earliest extant Christian
literature written by a woman. Perpetua’s text was popular in the Christian
community, and this in part accounts for its survival.” - Women Writers of
Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
MEDICINE
Fabulla: “Fabulla (before AD 210) Galen cites
two passages from Fabulla (13.250) repeating the same two passages soon after
(13.341). He describes her as a Libyan (i.e. African), though her name marks
her out as Roman. She uses a Roman weight system to measure her ingredients and
this suggests that her text may have been written originally in Latin, and
translated into Greek by Galen (or an unknown intermediary source). She was
probably amedica, a female doctor.” - Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome:
An Anthology, by I.M. Plant
9 pronunciation
arguments you can stop having
A pronunciation that sounds off to you is one
of those things that can stop a conversation cold. Sorry, what did you say? you
ask, when you already know. And while there are plenty of pronunciations out
there that are flat-out wrong, we thought that we might pick out some words
that have multiple accepted pronunciations. In order words, you can let the
following arguments go: you’re both right!
1. Route
In US English, there are two distinct
pronunciations of the word route, referring to a ‘way or course taken in
getting from a starting point to a destination’. (In British English, the
standard pronunciation rhymes withshoot and hoot.) For Americans, it is
acceptable to pronounce the word as either rOOt or rOWt. According to the
Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the latter pronunciation with a diphthong – a
long vowel sound involving a transition from one vowel to another, as in words
like ‘coin’ (OY) and ‘loud’ (OW) – dates back to the 18th century, but
disappeared from British English during the 19th century, though it remained
popular in North America.
2. Tomato
As George and Ira Gershwin’s famous ditty put
it: ‘You say to-MAY-to, I say to-MAH-to’. The diverging pronunciation of tomato
(though not so muchpotato) is primarily one of regional dialect. The
pronunciation ‘tuh-MAH-toh’ is the standard pronunciation in the UK and is
accepted in the US regions of New England along with parts of the lower East
Coast, while ‘tuh-MAY-toh’ is found almost everywhere else.
3. Aunt
‘Do you mean your relative or the insect?’
Outside of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! territory, that’s probably not a question
anyone has ever had to answer, but the possibility seems real enough to those
who defend their pronunciation of the word as ‘AHNT’ rather than ‘ANT’. Like
the pronunciation of tomato ‘tuh-MAH-toh’, ‘AHNT’ is standard in southern
British accents, and is accepted in New England and other parts of the East Coast,
while ‘ANT’ is common through the rest of North America.
4. Surprise
Are you surprised? While the spelling of this
word still requires that pesky first ‘r’, the standard North American
pronunciation is without the first ‘r’. The reason behind the ‘r’ omission is a
linguistic process called ‘r dissimilation’, which has occurred in several
English words that have two ‘r’s in them, including governor and particular. So
while you may enunciate that ‘r’ if you would like, it’s not a requirement in
either British or North American English.
5. February
For those who always getting in
February-pronunciation arguments, there is no doubt some relief in the fact
that it’s our shortest month. The battle over FEB-roo-ary and FEB-yuh-ri is an
old one; the difference between the two goes back to the linguistic process of
‘r dissimilation’ mentioned above with ‘surprise’. However, both pronunciations
are accepted in North American and British English.
6. Often
To say the ‘t’ or not say the ‘t’? Even
though often ranks among the most frequently used words in English, there isn’t
necessarily a clear consensus on how we should be pronouncing the word. When
pronouncing often, some sound the ‘t’, saying OFT-uhn; for others, it is
silent, as in soften orlisten . Either pronunciation is acceptable, although
OFF-uhn is more common.
7. Human
Do you drop the ‘h’? Thanks to the major
influence of French on the English language, there is a group of words,
including hour, honest, and honor, which are pronounced without the ‘h’ at the
beginning. However, there is another group of words, including human, huge, and
humiliation, that are subject to some debate in terms of dropping the
pronunciation of that initial ‘h: YOO-muhn instead of HYOO-muhnAlthough this
pronunciation is fairly common (and accepted!) in North America, this
pronunciation is not often heard in the UK.
8. Envelope
Ever had a minor skirmish about envelope
while waiting in line to buy stamps? The pronunciation argument at hand has to
do with the first syllable: should you say ON-vuh-lohp or EN-vuh-lohp? The
former (and less common) pronunciation dates back to when the word first
entered English from the French word enveloppe. The OED notes that this
pseudo-French pronunciation is still frequently heard, although ‘there is no good
reason for giving a foreign sound to a word which no one regards as alien, and
which has been anglicized in spelling for nearly 200 years’. That said, both
pronunciations are still acceptable.
9. Caramel
The word caramel can acceptably be pronounced
in several accepted ways, including KARR-uh-mel, KARR-uh-muhl, and, in North
American English, KAR-muhl. The disappearance of that second syllable -uh- in
the final pronunciation seems to have been in the works for a long time. The
word has been in English since the 18th century, which it came via French from
the Spanish caramel. Order that caramel ice cream sundae however you like!
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THE ARTS
Art
for the Blog of It
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Art
for the Pop of it
http://artforthepopofit.blogspot.com/
Photography
for the blog of it
http://photographyfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Music
for the Blog of it
http://musicfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Sculpture
this and Sculpture that
http://sculpturethisandsculpturethat.blogspot.com/
The
art of War (Propaganda art through the ages)
http://theartofwarcleverhuh.blogspot.com/
Album
Art (Photographic arts)
http://albumartsocheesyitsgood.blogspot.com/
Pulp
Fiction Trash (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://pulpfictiontrash.blogspot.com/
Admit
it, you want to Read this Book (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://goaheadadmitityouwanttoread.blogspot.com/
FILM
The
Godfather Trilogy BlogSpot
http://thegodfathertrilogyblogspot.blogspot.com/
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a great American Film
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/
FOOD
Absolutely
blogalicious
http://absolutelyblogalicious.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda (New England foods)
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes (Book support site)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams (New England foods)
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener (New England foods)
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Old
New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
FOSTER CARE
Foster Care new and Updates
Aging out of the system
Murder, Death and Abuse in the Foster
Care system
Angel and Saints in the Foster
Care System
The Foster Children’s Blogs
Foster Care Legislation
The Foster Children’s Bill of
Right
Foster Kids own Story
The Adventures of Foster Kid.
HEALTH
Me
vs. Diabetes (Diabetes education site)
http://mevsdiabetes-bloglapedia.blogspot.com/
HISTORY
The
Quotable Helen Keller
http://thequotablehelenkeller.blogspot.com/
Teddy
Roosevelt's Letters to his children (Book support site)
http://teddyrooseveltsletterstohischildren.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Machiavelli (Book support site)
http://thequotablemachiavelli.blogspot.com/
HUMOR
Whatever
you do, don't laugh
http://whateveryoudodontlaugh.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Grouch Marx
http://thequotablegrouchmarx.blogspot.com/
IRISH-AMERICANA
A Big
Blog of Irish Literature
http://abigblogofirishliterature.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Jokes (Book support blog)
http://theweeblogofirishjokes.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Recipes
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
The
Irish in their Own Words
http://theirishintheirownwords.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
LITERATURE
Following
Fitzgerald
http://followingfitzgerald.blogspot.com/
Shakespeare
http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
The
Blogable Robert Frost
http://theblogablerobertfrost.blogspot.com/
Charles
Dickens
http://charlesdickensfan.blogspot.com/
The
Beat Poets of the Forever Generation
http://thebeatspoetsoftheforevergenera.blogspot.com/
Holden
Caulfield Blog Spot
http://holdencaulfieldblogspot.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://thequotableoscarwilde.blogspot.com/
NEW ENGLAND BLOGS
The
Quotable Thoreau
http://thequotablethenrydavidthoreau.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Emerson
http://emersonsaidit.blogspot.com/
The
New England Mafia
http://thenewenglandmafia.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Watch
Hill
http://watchhillwesterly.blogspot.com/
York
Beach
http://yorkbeachfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut History Blog
http://connecticuthistory.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut Irish
http://theconnecticutirish.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
NOSTALGIA
God,
How I hated the 70s
http://godhowihatedthe70s.blogspot.com/
Child
of the Sixties Forever
http://childofthesixtiesforeverandever.blogspot.com/
The
Kennedy’s in the 60’s
http://thekennedysinthe60s.blogspot.com/
Music
of the Sixties Forever
http://musicofthesixtiesforever.blogspot.com/
Elvis
and Nixon at the White House (Book support site)
http://elvisandnixonatthewhitehouse.blogspot.com/
Beatles
Fan Forever
http://beatlesfanforever.blogspot.com/
Year
One, 1955
http://yearone1955.blogspot.com/
Robert
Kennedy in His Own Words
The
1980s were fun
http://the1980swereokayactually.blogspot.com/
The
1990s. The last decade.
http://1990sthelastdecade.blogspot.com/
ORGANIZED CRIME
The
Russian Mafia
http://russianmafiagangster.blogspot.com/
The
American Jewish Gangster
http://theamericanjewishgangster.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Hollywood
http://themobinhollywood.blogspot.com/
We
Only Kill Each Other
http://weonlykilleachother.blogspot.com/
Early
Gangsters of New York City
http://earlygangstersofnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/
Al
Capone: Biography of a self-made Man
http://alcaponethebiographyofaselfmademan.blogspot.com/
The
Life and World of Al Capone
http://thelifeandworldofalcapone.blogspot.com/
The
Salerno Report
http://salernoreportmafiaandurderjohnkennedy.blogspot.com/
Guns
and Glamour
http://gunsandglamourthechicagomobahistory.blogspot.com/
The
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
http://thesaintvalentinesdaymassacre.blogspot.com/
Mob
Testimony
http://mobtestimony.blogspot.com/
Recipes
we would Die For
http://recipeswewoulddiefor.blogspot.com/
The
Prohibition in Pictures
http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Pictures
http://themobinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Vegas
http://themobinvegasinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
Roger
Touhy Gangster
http://rogertouhygangsters.blogspot.com/
Chicago’s
Mob Bosses
http://chicagosmobbossesfromaccardoto.blogspot.com/
Chicago
Gang Land: It Happened Here
http://chicagoganglandithappenedhere.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred years of Murder in Gangland
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
The
Mob Across America
http://themobacrossamerica.blogspot.com/
Mob
Cops, Lawyers and Front Men
http://mobcopslawyersandinformantsand.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dutch Schultz
http://shootingthemobdutchschultz.blogspot.com/
Bugsy&
His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://bugsyandvirginiahill.blogspot.com/
After
Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate on Organized Crime
http://aftervalachi.blogspot.com/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee (Book
support site)
http://virgilpetersonmobbuster.blogspot.com/
The
US Government’s Timeline of Organized Crime (Book support site)
http://timelineoforganizedcrime.blogspot.com/
The
Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings (Book support site)
http://thekefauverorganizedcrimehearings.blogspot.com/
Joe
Valachi's testimony on the Mafia (Book support site)
http://joevalachistestimonyonthemafia.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in the News
http://mobstersinthenews.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dead Mobsters (Book support site)
http://deadmobsters.blogspot.com/
The
Stolen Years Full Text (Roger Touhy)
http://thestolenyearsfulltext.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in Black and White
http://mobstersinblackandwhite.blogspot.com/
Mafia
Gangsters, Wiseguys and Goodfellas
http://mafiagangsterswiseguysandgoodfellas.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred Years of Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Mob (Book support site)
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal (Book support site)
http://ganglandgaslightrosyrosenthal.blogspot.com/
The
Best of the Mob Files Series (Book support site)
http://thebestofthemobfilesseries.blogspot.com/
PHILOSOPHY
It’s
All Greek Mythology to me
http://itsallgreekmythologytome.blogspot.com/
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologically
Relevant
http://psychologicallyrelevant.blogspot.com/
SNOBBERY
The
Rarifieid Tribe
http://therarifiedtribe.blogspot.com/
Perfect
Behavior
http://perfectbehavior.blogspot.com/
TRAVEL
The
Upscale Traveler
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
TRIVIA
The
Mish Mosh Blog
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON DC
DC
Behind the Monuments
http://dcbehindthemonuments.blogspot.com/
Washington
Oddities
http://washingtonoddities.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
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AMERICAN HISTORY
The
Day Nixon Met Elvis
Paperback 46 pages
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Theodore
Roosevelt: Letters to his Children. 1903-1918
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Letters-Children-1903-1918/dp/
THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND
CIVILIZATIONS
The
Works of Horace
Paperback 174 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Horace-Richard-Willoughby/
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Epictetus
Paperback 142 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Epictetus-Golden-Sayings
Quo
Vadis: A narrative of the time of Nero
Paperback 420 pages
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CHILDRENS BOOKS
The
Porchless Pumpkin: A Halloween Story for Children
A Halloween play for young
children. By consent of the author, this play may be performed, at no charge,
by educational institutions, neighborhood organizations and other
not-for-profit-organizations.
A fun story with a moral
“I believe that Denny O'Day is an
American treasure and this little book proves it. Jack is a pumpkin who happens
to be very small, by pumpkins standards and as a result he goes unbought in the
pumpkin patch on Halloween eve, but at the last moment he is given his chance
to prove that just because you're small doesn't mean you can't be brave. Here
is the point that I found so wonderful, the book stresses that while size
doesn't matter when it comes to courage...ITS OKAY TO BE SCARED....as well. I
think children need to hear that, that's its okay to be unsure because life is
a ongoing lesson isn't it?”
Paperback: 42 pages
http://www.amazon.com/OLANTERN-PORCHLESS-PUMPKIN-Halloween-Children
It's
Not All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the
books contents
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Right-Foster-Kid-no-matter-what
From the Author
I spent my childhood, from age
seven through seventeen, in foster care.
Over the course of those ten years, many decent, well-meaning, and
concerned people told me, "It's okay to be foster kid."
In saying that, those very good
people meant to encourage me, and I appreciated their kindness then, and all
these many decades later, I still appreciate their good intentions. But as I
was tossed around the foster care system, it began to dawn on me that they were
wrong. It was not all right to be a
foster kid.
During my time in the system, I
was bounced every eighteen months from three foster homes to an orphanage to a
boy's school and to a group home before I left on my own accord at age
seventeen.
In the course of my stay in
foster care, I was severely beaten in two homes by my "care givers"
and separated from my four siblings who were also in care, sometimes only
blocks away from where I was living.
I left the system rather than to
wait to age out, although the effects of leaving the system without any family,
means, or safety net of any kind, were the same as if I had aged out. I lived
in poverty for the first part of my life, dropped out of high school, and had
continuous problems with the law.
Today, almost nothing about foster care has
changed. Exactly what happened to me is
happening to some other child, somewhere in America, right now. The system, corrupt, bloated, and
inefficient, goes on, unchanging and secretive.
Something has gone wrong in a
system that was originally a compassionate social policy built to improve lives
but is now a definitive cause in ruining lives.
Due to gross negligence, mismanagement, apathy, and greed, mostly what
the foster care system builds are dangerous consequences. Truly, foster care
has become our epic national disgrace and a nightmare for those of us who have
lived through it.
Yet there is a suspicion among
some Americans that foster care costs too much, undermines the work ethic, and
is at odds with a satisfying life.
Others see foster care as a part of the welfare system, as legal plunder
of the public treasuries.
None of that is true; in fact, all that sort
of thinking does is to blame the victims.
There is not a single child in the system who wants to be there or asked
to be there. Foster kids are in foster
care because they had nowhere else to go.
It's that simple. And believe me,
if those kids could get out of the system and be reunited with their parents
and lead normal, healthy lives, they would. And if foster care is a sort of
legal plunder of the public treasuries, it's not the kids in the system who are
doing the plundering.
We need to end this needless suffering. We need to end it because it is morally and
ethically wrong and because the generations to come will not judge us on the
might of our armed forces or our technological advancements or on our fabulous
wealth.
Rather, they will judge us, I am certain, on
our compassion for those who are friendless, on our decency to those who have
nothing and on our efforts, successful or not, to make our nation and our world
a better place. And if we cannot
accomplish those things in the short time allotted to us, then let them say of
us "at least they tried."
You can change the tragedy of
foster care and here's how to do it. We
have created this book so that almost all of it can be tweeted out by you to
the world. You have the power to improve
the lives of those in our society who are least able to defend themselves. All you need is the will to do it.
If the American people, as good, decent and
generous as they are, knew what was going on in foster care, in their name and
with their money, they would stop it.
But, generally speaking, although the public has a vague notion that
foster care is a mess, they don't have the complete picture. They are not aware
of the human, economic and social cost that the mismanagement of the foster
care system puts on our nation.
By tweeting the facts laid out in
this work, you can help to change all of that.
You can make a difference. You
can change things for the better.
We can always change the future
for a foster kid; to make it better ...you have the power to do that. Speak up
(or tweet out) because it's your country.
Don't depend on the "The other guy" to speak up for these
kids, because you are the other guy.
We cannot build a future for
foster children, but we can build foster children for the future and the time
to start that change is today.
No
time to say Goodbye: Memoirs of a life in foster
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ABOUT FILM
On
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BOOKS
ABOUT GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATUAL
Scotish
Ghost Stories
Paperback 186 pages
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HUMOR
BOOKS
The
Book of funny odd and interesting things people say
Paperback: 278 pages
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The
Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook
Perfect
Behavior: A guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Behavior-Ladies-Gentlemen-Social
BOOKS
ABOUT THE 1960s
You
Don’t Need a Weatherman. Underground 1969
Paperback 122 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Weatherman-Notes-Weatherman-Underground-1969
Baby
Boomers Guide to the Beatles Songs of the Sixties
Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-Guide-Beatles-Songs-Sixties/
Baby
Boomers Guide to Songs of the 1960s
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Boomers-Guide-Songs-1960s
IRISH- AMERICANA
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-Recipes/
The Wee Book of the American-Irish Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-American-Gangsters/
The Wee book of Irish Blessings...
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Blessing-Proverbs-Toasts-ebook/
The
Wee Book of the American Irish in Their Own Words
http://www.amazon.com/Book-American-Irish-Their-Words/
Everything
you need to know about St. Patrick
Paperback 26 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-About-Saint-Patrick
A
Reading Book in Ancient Irish History
Paperback 147pages
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Book-Ancient-Irish-History
The
Book of Things Irish
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Things-Irish-William-Tuohy/
Poets
and Dreamer; Stories translated from the Irish
Paperback 158 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Poets-Dreamers-Stories-Translated-Irish/
The
History of the Great Irish Famine: Abridged and Illustrated
Paperback 356 pages
http://www.amazon.com/History-Great-Irish-Famine-Illustrated/
BOOKS ABOUT NEW ENGLAND
The
New England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook/
Wicked
Good New England Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Good-New-England-Recipes/
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Paperback 64 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Fifth-Regiment-Connecticut-Volunteers-Rebellion
The
Life of James Mars
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-James-Mars-Slave-Connecticut
Stories
of Colonial Connecticut
Paperback 116 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Colonial-Connnecticut-Caroline-Clifford
What
they Say in Old New England
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/What-they-say-New-England/
BOOK ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME
Chicago Organized Crime
Chicago-Mob-Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Mob-Bosses-Accardo-ebook
The
Mob Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-1900-2000-ebook
An
Illustrated Chronological History of the Chicago Mob. Time Line 1837-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Chronological-History-Chicago-1837-2000/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Buster-Peterson-Committee-ebook/
The
Mob Files. Guns and Glamour: The Chicago Mob. A History. 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Guns-Glamour-ebook/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized crime in photos. Crime Boss Tony Accardo
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-photos-Accardo/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Valentines-Massacre
The
Life and World of Al Capone in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Life-World-Al-Capone
AL
CAPONE: The Biography of a Self-Made Man.: Revised from the 0riginal 1930
edition.Over 200 new photographs
Paperback: 340 pages
http://www.amazon.com/CAPONE-Biography-Self-Made-Over-photographs
Whacked.
One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit
Paperback: 172 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Whacked-Hundred-Murder-Mayhem-Chicago/
Las Vegas Organized Crime
The
Mob in Vegas
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Vegas-ebook
Bugsy
& His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Bugsy-His-Flamingo-Testimony-Virginia/
Testimony
by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner (The Mob Files
Series)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-ebook
Rattling
the Cup on Chicago Crime.
Paperback 264 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Rattling-Cup-Chicago-Crime-Abridged
The
Life and Times of Terrible Tommy O’Connor.
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Terrible-Tommy-OConnor
The
Mob, Sam Giancana and the overthrow of the Black Policy Racket in Chicago
Paperback 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Giancana-ovethrow-Policy-Rackets-Chicago
When
Capone’s Mob Murdered Roger Touhy. In Photos
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Capones-Murdered-Roger-Touhy-photos
Organized
Crime in Hollywood
The Mob in Hollywood
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Hollywood-ebook/
The
Bioff Scandal
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Bioff-Scandal-Shakedown-Hollywood-Studios
Organized
Crime in New York
Joe Pistone’s war on the mafia
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Petrosinos-War-Mafia-Files/
Mob
Testimony: Joe Pistone, Michael Scars DiLeonardo, Angelo Lonardo and others
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Testimony-DiLeonardo-testimony-Undercover/
The
New York Mafia: The Origins of the New York Mob
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mafia-Origins
The
New York Mob: The Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mob-Bosses/
Organized
Crime 25 Years after Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate
http://www.amazon.com/Organized-Crime-Valachi-Hearings-ebook
Shooting
the mob: Dutch Schultz
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Photographs-Schultz
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal. (Illustrated)
http://www.amazon.com/Gangland-Gaslight-Killing-Rosenthal-Illustrated/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City
Paperback 382 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Street-Gangs-Gangsters-York
THE RUSSIAN MOBS
The
Russian Mafia in America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Russian-Mafia-America-ebook/
The
Threat of Russian Organzied Crime
Paperback 192 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Threat-Russian-Organized-Crime-photographs-ebook
Organized Crime/General
Best
of Mob Stories
http://www.amazon.com/Files-Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-Crime/
Best
of Mob Stories Part 2
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-ebook/
Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters-ebook
Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-For-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
More
Mob Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobs
http://www.amazon.com/More-Recipes-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
The
New England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook
Shooting
the mob. Organized crime in photos. Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-mob-Organized-photos-Mobsters-Gangsters/
The
Salerno Report: The Mafia and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Salerno-Report-President-ebook/
The Mob Files: Mob Wars. "We only kill
each other"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Wars-other/
The
Mob across America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Files-Across-America-ebook/
The
US Government’s Time Line of Organzied Crime 1920-1987
http://www.amazon.com/GOVERNMENTS-ORGANIZED-1920-1987-Illustrated-ebook/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City: 1800-1919. Illustrated
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-1800-1919-Illustrated-Street-ebook/
The
Mob Files: Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Informants-ebook/
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Book of American-Jewish Gangsters: A Pictorial History.
Paperback: 436 pages
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-American-Jewish-Gangsters-Pictorial/
The
Mob and the Kennedy Assassination
Paperback 414 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-Mobsters
BOOKS ABOUT THE OLD WEST
The
Last Outlaw: The story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Paperback 152 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Outlaw-Story-Younger-Himself
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Chicago:
A photographic essay.
Paperback: 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Photographic-Essay-William-Thomas
STAGE PLAYS
Boomers
on a train: A ten minute play
Paperback 22 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-train-ten-minute-Play-ebook
Four
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy
Four
More Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy/
High
and Goodbye: Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they deserve. A full length play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/High-Goodbye-Everybody-Timothy-deserve
Cyberdate.
An Everyday Love Story about Everyday People
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Cyberdate-Everyday-Story-People-ebook/
The
Dutchman's Soliloquy: A one Act Play based on the factual last words of
Gangster Dutch Schultz.
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Dutchmans-Soliloquy-factual-Gangster-Schultz/
Fishbowling
on The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: Or William S. Burroughs intersects with
Dutch Schultz
Print Length: 57 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Fishbowling-Last-Words-Dutch-Schultz-ebook/
American
Shakespeare: August Wilson in his own words. A One Act Play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/American-Shakespeare-August-Wilson-ebook
She
Stoops to Conquer
http://www.amazon.com/She-Stoops-Conquer-Oliver-Goldsmith/
The
Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island: A ten minute play
Print Length: 14 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Deadly-Gilligans-Island-minute-ebook/
BOOKS ABOUT VIRGINIA
OUT
OF CONTROL: An Informal History of the Fairfax County Police
http://www.amazon.com/Control-Informal-History-Fairfax-Police/
McLean
Virginia. A short informal history
http://www.amazon.com/McLean-Virginia-Short-Informal-History/
THE QUOTABLE SERIES
The
Quotable Emerson: Life lessons from the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Over 300
quotes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Emerson-lessons-quotes
The
Quotable John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-John-F-Kennedy/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons/
The
Quotable Machiavelli
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-Thayer/
The
Quotable Confucius: Life Lesson from the Chinese Master
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese/
The
Quotable Henry David Thoreau
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Henry-Thoreau-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Robert-F-Kennedy-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Writer: Writers on the Writers Life
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Writer-Quotables-ebook
The
words of Walt Whitman: An American Poet
Paperback: 162 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Walt-Whitman-American-Poet
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Popes
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Popes-Maria-Conasenti
The
Quotable Kahlil Gibran with Artwork from Kahlil Gibran
Paperback 52 pages
Kahlil Gibran, an artist, poet,
and writer was born on January 6, 1883 n the north of modern-day Lebanon and in
what was then part of Ottoman Empire. He had no formal schooling in Lebanon. In
1895, the family immigrated to the United States when Kahlil was a young man
and settled in South Boston. Gibran enrolled in an art school and was soon a
member of the avant-garde community and became especially close to Boston
artist, photographer, and publisher Fred Holland Day who encouraged and
supported Gibran’s creative projects. An accomplished artist in drawing and
watercolor, Kahlil attended art school in Paris from 1908 to 1910, pursuing a
symbolist and romantic style. He held his first art exhibition of his drawings
in 1904 in Boston, at Day's studio. It was at this exhibition, that Gibran met
Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who ten years his senior. The two formed an important
friendship and love affair that lasted the rest of Gibran’s short life. Haskell
influenced every aspect of Gibran’s personal life and career. She became his
editor when he began to write and ushered his first book into publication in
1918, The Madman, a slim volume of aphorisms and parables written in biblical
cadence somewhere between poetry and prose. Gibran died in New York City on
April 10, 1931, at the age of 48 from cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Kahlil-Gibran-artwork/
The
Quotable Dorothy Parker
Paperback 86 pages
The
Quotable Machiavelli
Paperback 36 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-L-Thayer
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 230 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotabe Oscar Wilde
Paperback 24 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons-words/
The
Quotable Helen Keller
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Helen-Keller-Richard-Willoughby
The
Art of War: Sun Tzu
Paperback 60 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Shakespeare
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Shakespeare-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Gorucho Marx
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Groucho-Marx-Devon-Alexander
