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In A World of Curiosities, did you pick up on any historical or geographical details of interest? Tell us about it and what you appreciated learning about in A World of Curiosities.
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“The killer had separated out the men and told them to leave. And then he’d shot the women. For daring to believe they could enter a man’s world without consequence. For daring to become engineers. They were murdered because they were women. For having opinions. And desires.” I did not know about this horrible event until I read A World of Curiosities. The Montreal Massacre that took place in 1989 at the Ecole Polytechnique, a school of engineering, was a heinous, mysogynisitc witch hunt. 24 women were shot – 14 of whom died. Women are still fighting to be treated as man’s equal. We still battle to be recognized for everything we are capable of being. I wish I was leaving a brighter world for my daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters. I wish they didn’t have to pick up the torch I have carried to light our way for recognition in this world. That path should have always been well lit.
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I am going to do everything I can to see that we move forward with this US election.
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As am I. There’s too much at stake to not be involved.
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So am I.
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Lillian Virginia Mountweazel and the use of deliberately fake entries in a work as a copyright trap. I did not know that it was a tradition for encyclopedias to put a fake entry in their works to identify evidence of plagiarism. The name Mountweazel became synonymous with those fictitious entries. In today’s online and sound bite communications, we are challenged even more to establish the accuracy of what is written and said.
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Charles Dickens’ Tavistock letter written in a shorthand that has taken years to decode; the letter has to do with a business deal; the Quebec bridge collapse and the large loss of life of the workers, mostly native people; the engineer ring–a reminder of the obligations and the ethics of the profession and giclee-digital prints intended as fine art and produced with a high quality inkjet printer.
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