Biblical researches in Palestine, 1838-52. A journal of travels in the year 1838. By E. Robinson and E. Smith. Drawn up from the original diaries, with ... illustrations, by Edward Robinson. Vol. 2.
Football news from a chick™ (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Aaron Curry is so eager to learn every trick to pass rushing in the NFL, he's going on YouTube to study Lawrence Taylor and Reggie White. The Seahawks' rookie, drafted No. 4 overall, is so anxious that the outside linebacker's skilled hands were shaking before his first pro game Saturday. It was like he was a kid again playing at E.E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, N.C. "I was really nervous...
Hinckley RFC Latest News (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
EE Smith Contract are supporting Simon Stratford during the 2009/10 season and wish him every success. Welcome to EE Smith Contracts, one of the UK’s leading fitting out, interior furnishers & joinery specialists. We operate successfully in a variety of sectors ranging from prestige hotels and commercial interiors to high end residences. Registered Office: EE Smith [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Has the best name ever. Milton Butts. Isn't that a fantastic name for a football coach? He coached Curry at E.E. Smith, where he played JV as a freshman and was actually a defensive end as a sophomore. A small defensive end, and by the end of that sophomore season, he lost his starting job.That's when Curry's determination really showed through. He came back bigger, better and more determined as a...
QuasarDragon (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Quite a bit more great, free genre items this time.E-FictionAt Manybooks: "The Velvet Glove" by Harry Harrison, from Fantastic Universe November 1956."SF writer and editor Harry Harrison explores a not too distant future where robots--particularly specialist robots who don't know their place--have quite a rough time of it. True, the Robot Equality Act had been passed--but so what?"In...
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
There's an interesting essay in The Guardian about how the science fiction genre has contributed to the health of the English language. From the story... Perhaps you won't be surprised to learn that "robot" is a relatively recent SF coinage. But if you're like me, you might be interested to discover it comes from the Czech word "robota", meaning forced labour. It was first used...
You Served (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
I saw this during the Cowboys vs. Redskins game tonight and was uber impressed. I want to share it with you. At Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, The Line of Scrimmage filmed the E.E. Smith Golden Bulls. In this video, the coach talks about getting the players game footage so that if their [...]
PalmAddicts (Free subscription) | 06/27/2007
Fictionwise news this week including the following "Fictionwise released 226 new eBooks this week, including great titles from Nina Coombs Pykare, E. E. Smith, Carl Frederick, Holly Peterson, Philip K. Dick, PJ Parrish, Rebecca Goings, Lawrence Block, Larry Dark, Alexis...
The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 02/06/2007
The First Historian Sam Moskowitz: This year I'll be tackling three books by Sam Moskowitz. One concentrates on early writers of fantastic fiction, one concentrates on later writers (centering around many of the people who wrote for Astounding) and the third is an overview of fandom. Moskowitz was often derided by others (well after he stopped writing) as being a sloppy historian, but if it were not...
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