Week beginning Monday, July 6, 2009

THIS DATE IN HISTORY: [1747] American naval hero John Paul Jones is born.

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: [July 11, 1899] American author and literary critic E.B. White is born.

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: [July 31, 1498]: Christopher Columbus "discovers" island of Trinidad.

Download 3-D animations from our new Teddy Bear Animations Page.

Ernest Fitzgerald, Jr., has two new poems "[6]" and "Chuck" in short stories and poems.

Read Basil's e-Journal to follow his latest case - in Venice!

Speaking of Venice, here's a nice painting by French Impressionist Edouard Manet.

...and another by French Post-Impressionist Jean Dufy.

And while we're on French painting, check out this luminous child by Adolphe-William Bouguereau.

Read our review of Thomas Marent's spectacular nature book rainforest.

View a few Hubble Space Telescope pictures in The Arts. Awesome!

And here's a "bird's" eye view of where we live.

 

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