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*** Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec; | *** Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec; | ||
*** David Thompson, the man who mapped close to four million square kilometres of Canada and is still considered one of the world''s greatest geographers. | *** David Thompson, the man who mapped close to four million square kilometres of Canada and is still considered one of the world''s greatest geographers. | ||
*** Further reading: http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISODESUM2LE.html | |||
*** The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler: An Oral… By Michael Posner | |||
*** Sisters In Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill | |||
*** Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP | |||
** Historical notable | ** Historical notable | ||
Revision as of 05:46, 30 November 2011
Hullo Δ
Hobbies
- Yoga
- Pottery
- Camping
- puttering with computers
testing
Books
Read
- Neuromancer
- Orientalism
To Read
- Diary of a mad man - Gogol
- The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- Alain L. Locke - The Biography of a Philosopher - Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth, University of Chicago press.
- The Economy of Renaissance Florence - Richard A. Goldthwaite, John Hopkins University Press
- Loeb Classical library ( http://www.edonnelly.com/loebs.html , ... ) of note:
- Polybius, The Histories
- Athenaeus, The Learned Banquetters
- Hippocrates,
- Cicero
- Macrobius, Saurnalia
- Plautus
- the ancient world online http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
- Walt Whitman - Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a600
- Biographies
- Canadian notable
- Pierre de La Verendrye
- Samuel Hearne
- Jacques Cartier, who gave Canada its name;
- Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec;
- David Thompson, the man who mapped close to four million square kilometres of Canada and is still considered one of the worlds greatest geographers.
- Further reading: http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISODESUM2LE.html
- Canadian notable
- The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler: An Oral… By Michael Posner
- Sisters In Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
- Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP
- Historical notable
- Chuck norris
- Steve mcQueen
- Stalin
- Marxism
- Historical notable
Eyes
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sphere -2.75 cylinder -0.75 axis 007
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sphere -3.00 cylinder -1.00 axis 167
PD : 52mm
List of places I've unsubscribed
- bell
