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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication t... ...ses that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot... ...tive ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions ... ... print system using movable type—wooden rather than metal.) To establish peace and order, he had Draconian laws drawn up to end the continual robbe... ... ―The golden afternoon of the Roman occupation—when the countryside lay at peace, dotted with opulent villas surrounded by fertile fields and park-li... ...personal copy of Tyndale‘s 1534 New Testament is displayed at the British Museum. Over fourteen inches tall, it became known as the ―Great Bible‖... ...d from the back shop forever, as did the Linotypes except for one labeled museum piece that sits in the paper‘s public entrance lobby. One Gazette ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...e InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication t... ...ses that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot... ...tive ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions ... ...rint system using movable type—wooden rather than metal.) To establish peace and order, he had Draconian laws drawn up to end the continual robbe... ... ―The golden afternoon of the Roman occupation—when the countryside lay at peace, dotted with opulent villas surrounded by fertile fields and park-li... ...personal copy of Tyndale‘s 1534 New Testament is displayed at the British Museum. Most literate people recognize the King James Bible‘s excellenc... ...d from the back shop forever, as did the Linotypes except for one labeled museum piece that sits in the paper‘s public entrance lobby. One Gazett...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...vidualities, and Plato turned his back on truth when he turned towards his museum of spe- cific ideals. Heraclitus, that lost and misinterpreted giant... ...ccessible and as safe for the wayfarer as France or England is to-day. The peace of the world will be established for ever, and everywhere, except in ... ... centenary. The reverse shows the universal goddess of the Utopian coinage—Peace, as a beautiful woman, reading with a child out of a great book, and ... ...Touring Club de France, my green ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank. A fooli... ...offer the card of the T .C.F . I follow up that blow with my green British Museum ticket, as tattered as a flag in a knight’s chapel. “You’ll get foun... ... the com- mon actor, and with even less intelligence. Our Founders made no peace with this organisation of public sports. They did not spend their liv... ...arth; and the subtle folding of the woollen materials witness that Utopian Bradford is no whit behind her earthly sister. White is ex- traordinarily f...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...e had closed them already went out of the room on tiptoe. The Vicar was at peace with himself today , and in ten minutes he was asleep. He snored soft... ... and the country living he would much sooner resign. All he wanted now was peace and quietness. “I’m not thinking of marrying,” he said. Mr. Perkins l... ...rth while to go back to Barnes for the interval between the closing of the Museum and his meal in an A. B. C. shop, and the time hung heavily on his h... ...de- parted this life early this morning. She died very suddenly, but quite peacefully. The change for the worse was so rapid that we had no time to se... ...usted the notices he saw a glass door which led into what was apparently a museum, and having still twenty minutes to spare he walked in. It was a col... ...ting on for eleven.” “ We’d better try to find it.” They walked out of the museum into a long, dark corridor, with the walls painted in two shades of ... ...e was a story they liked to tell of a man who had done well for himself at Bradford, and had five shops of his own, and had come back after fifteen ye...

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The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

...ater. Life, to Mr. Leath, was like a walk through a care- fully classified museum, where, in moments of doubt, one had only to look at the number and ... ...e welcome of its lamp and fire. Everything in it exhaled the same sense of peace and stability which, two evenings before, had lulled him to complacen... ...n. She did not move at Darrow’s approach, but lifted to him a deep gaze of peace and confidence. The look seemed to throw about him the spell of a div... ...a-corner by the fire and he drew an armchair close to her. His gaze roamed peacefully about the quiet room. “It’s just like you—it is you,” he said, a... ...state—so afraid her son’ll lose Mrs. Pond! When I think that Gisele is old Bradford Wagstaff’s grand-daughter, I’m thankful he’s safe in Mount Auburn!...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...as to the size of the Giant—” There was a pause to let grandmamma go up in peace, upon Mother Carey’s arm, and then a general romp and scurry all the ... ...ister; nay, that even little Babie 72 Magnum Bonum gave her more rest and peace than did Janet, who always rubbed against her whenever they found the... ...o home by the lanes. “What collectors you are!” said Mr. Ogilvie. “For the museum,” answered Armine, eagerly. “Haven’t you seen our museum?” cried Bar... ...t dry yet.” “I’m afraid Babie likes fine words,” said her mother; “but our museum is a great amusement to us Londoners.” They all walked home together... ... each side of her, Armine begging that Miss Ogilvie would come and see the museum, and Barbara saying that Jock wanted to help to show it off. “Well, ... ...been educated for a governess! The Colonel, wanting to finish his Times in peace, looked up and said, with the gracious tone he always used to his bro... ...“I know they are in the county history. They were collected by Sir Francis Bradford, from whom the place was bought, and he was a great connoisseur.” ... ...was wanting. The great house had never been thoroughly furnished since the Bradfords had sold it, and it was, besides, in manifest need of repair. Dam...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...oint towards no constructive ideals. Essen- tially they are things for the museum or the bonfire, what- ever momentary expediency may hold back the Ne... ...in access to the fire-grates. “E. R. C. BRADFORD, “The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. ... ...two, a “ransom” speech or so, will find excellent reasons for making their peace with things as they 154 Mankind in the Making are, just as if they w... ... vulgar as a political agitator or advertising trader, or else to make his peace with those who do. And so he, too, makes his conces- sions. They are ... ...his * There are three very fine libraries in the adjacent South Kensington Museum, especially available to students, but, like almost all existing lib... ...ight either read or write—or the mu- sic master, the debating society, the museum, the art studio, the dramatic society, or any concern of the sort th... ...ds, schisms and final disaster to uncivi- lized races, are accomplished in peace; constitutional changes, economic reorganizations, boundary modificat...

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The Maine Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...re, where one would think that the moose might browse and bathe, and rest in peace. Pursuing this course, we soon reached the open land, which went sl... ...ecimen of what God saw fit to make this world. What is it to be admitted to a museum, to see a myriad of particular things, compared with being shown s... ...? (curled dock), West Branch 1853. Apocynum cannabinum (Indian hemp), Kineo, Bradford, and East Branch 1857, at Whetstone Falls. Apocynum androsæmifol... ...57, at Whetstone Falls. Apocynum androsæmifolium (spreading dogbane), Kineo, Bradford. Clintonia borealis (Clintonia), all over woods; fruit just ripe... ..., 1853, at Smith’s and his wood path. Liparis liliifolia (tway blade), Kineo,Bradford. Uvularia grandiflora (large flowered bellwort), woods, common. Uv...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...antation on its banks, which appears to have been commenced in a spirit of peace and harmony. It will be Grass ground River as long as grass grows an... ...ss grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives 6 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers on its banks. To an ... ...ar, which ceased not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude ... ...ver infinite change in particulars only, not in generals. When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the ... ...nded nine years before in the fields; and there was waving the flag of its Museum, where “the only perfect skeleton of a Greenland or river whale in t... ...arber, the river rose twenty one feet above the common high water mark, at Bradford in the year 1818. Before the Lowell and Nashua railroad was built,...

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