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knoxcotn-digest Thursday, December 23 1999 Volume 01 : Number 031
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:38:49 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Fwd: TECHNOLOGY ALERT: AOL Buys MapQuest.com Interesting.....wonder if they'll have the little yellow Instant Messenger icon man running down the roads on the maps to show us how to get there? <wink>
>_________________________________ >TECHNOLOGY ALERT >from The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. > > >Dec. 22, 1999 > > >America Online agreed to acquire Internet media company MapQuest.com in a >stock deal with an indicated value of $1.1 billion. > >FOR MORE INFORMATION, see: >http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB945868162616593401.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:14:04 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Another new Civil War book Found this today. Thought I'd pass it along.
SALEM RAID: Breaking Knoxville's Supply Line General William Averell's Salem Raid: Breaking the Knoxville Supply Line - Collins - 1-57249-111-6 - - Burd St. $24.95 By December of 1863, the Union high command was desperate to break the 204-mile-long Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, not only because it was a vital communications link between the Confederate eastern and western theaters of war, but because a break then would cut the supply line of Confederates besieging Knoxville. Brigadier General Averelll with 2,500 troops plunged into the mountains of western Virginia during one of the coldest months of the year in an attempt to disrupt the line. This exciting book details one of the most remarkable raids of the war. 6x9, 184 pages, hardcover, 23 illustrations, 10 maps, bibliography, index. NEW BOOK Buyer pays $5.00 s&h in U.S. (e-mail auction@abooks.com for overseas rates). Visa and MasterCard, Money Orders, or personal checks accepted, and please examine our other auctions. Alexander Books is a division of Creativity, Inc. and is a book publisher and distributor located in Alexander, North Carolina just outside of Asheville. The company also deals in antiquarian books. Publishing imprints include Alexander Books, Blue/Gray Books, Elephant Books, Farthest Star SF, Land of the Sky Books, Mountain Church, and WorldComm®. A complete catalog may be viewed here. Writers wishing to submit, look here. Publishers looking for affordable distribution, check www.abooks.com. Other questions, e-mail auction@abooks.com. Ralph Roberts (ralph@abooks.com) is CEO and Publisher. 1-800-472-0438 tollfree in U.S. and Canada voice or fax 1-828-255-8719 voice & fax overseas..... Visa & Mastercard Accepted 65 Macedonia Road Alexander, North Carolina 28701 USA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:13:52 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: As if we didn't have enough to think about With all the concerns we're seeing about our computers, software, etc., as the date shifts forward, I found this little note from my California buddy, Russ Bakke, enlightening and couldn't resist sharing it <g>.....
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please take time out of your busy schedule to check your toilet paper stockpile to insure that it is Y2K compliant. Experts caution that if it is not compliant, on January 1, 2000 it will roll back to 1900 and turn into a Sears catalog. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:15:29 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Christmas Greetings from the Kisvardai/McNamara Household You have just received an animated greeting card from The Kisvardai/McNamara House You'll see the personal greeting by using the following Web location. http://www2.bluemountain.com/cards/box7375x/pga9vmjeppvvzp.htm (Your greeting card will be available for the next 90 days) There is no charge for this service! :) HAVE a good day and have fun! ____________________________________________________________ Accessing your card indicates your agreement with our Website Rules posted at the bottom of the following Web location: (You're welcome to send a card at no charge to someone at this location) http://www.bluemountain.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:10:43 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Fwd: If you're really, REALLY bored... This is fun! Thanks to cyberwhizbang Allen Richmond for sharing it. I spent a few minutes playing with the Hungarian pages I've put up for Sir Spouse John's family -- They're already in proper Hungarian syntax, but it will be cool to offer John's English-speaking relatives a way to translate on the fly. And, Voycabulary uses my favorite on-line English/Magyar dictionary/szotar..... The only problem I've found is that it truncates words with high ASCII characters (diacriticals in this case). For instance, "reformed church" in Hungarian is református templom -- the converter's javascript changed it into "reform" and "tus" -- neither of which are Hungarian words. If my page had no diacritical characters, it would've seen the words and translated them correctly.
>This was an item in the recent issue of "Neat Net Tricks". If you're >_really_ bored for something to do, give this a whirl. (Warning--can >be addictive to vocabulary-intensive individuals <LOL>) > ___________________________________ > >VOYCABULARY. This is a golden oldie but bears repeating everytime >I hear from my fourth-grade teacher. She's the one who would take a >sharp red pencil to my work, and she surely lives on in the reports I >get whenever I misspell something in Neat Net Tricks. Enter a URL (no >sites with frames allowed) or a selected piece of text at >http://www.voycabulary.com/ and each word will be linked to a >definition and thesaurus. I have lots of red pencils on hand, now all >I need is my fourth-grade teacher's URL so I can return the favor. > > ___________________________________ > >http://www.NeatNetTricks.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 22:19:03 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Fwd: Easier Free Access to GenealogyLibrary.com! Some of you might be interested in this offer -- I found a TON of stuff on just a handful of surnames I'm researching during my free week, and I'm grateful for another one so I can continue!
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