7.0608 Qs: Markup; Quotes; Wellcome Inst.; Napoleon (5/88)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 9 Apr 1994 15:18:57 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0608. Saturday, 9 Apr 1994.


(1) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 10:34:32 +0300 (IDT) (19 lines)
From: danon gabi <danon@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Accusative marking and definite/indefinite objects

(2) Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 16:50:50 -0230 (13 lines)
From: OLAF <olaf@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Seek Bowater Corp. Archives

(3) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 07:59:33 CST (13 lines)
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Voltaire quotation

(4) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 08:29:12 -0500 (EDT) (22 lines)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: Wellcome Institute catalogue

(5) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 08:39:24 -0400 (EDT) (21 lines)
From: Phyllis Wright <pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
Subject: Napoleon

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 10:34:32 +0300 (IDT)
From: danon gabi <danon@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Accusative marking and definite/indefinite objects

Hi,

In Hebrew and Turkish there is a distinction in case marking of definite
vs. indefinite objects (definites receive accusative, indef.- not). I
wonder:
1. If this happens in other languages too.
2. If there are any good explanations for this.

Gabi

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danon@ccsg.tau.ac.il Never drive a car when you're dead"


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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 16:50:50 -0230
From: OLAF <olaf@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Seek Bowater Corp. Archives

Help! I need to get in touch with Bowater House in London,
England. This is the corporate headquarters of the Bowater
Corporation, which is (or was) a major pulp & paper manufacturer.
Specifically, I wish to make contact with their corporate
archives for some information concerning one of the ships they
owned in the 1930s and '40s to transport paper between
Newfoundland and England, and which was torpedoed by a German
submarine in 1940. Can anyone provide me with a mailing address?
Many thanks in advance.
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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 07:59:33 CST
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Voltaire quotation

Over on Gerlingl, a list devoted to Germanic linguistics, the problem of a
famous quotation came up. Voltaire is said to have said "Etymology is a
science in which the consonants count for very little and the vowels for
nothing," or words to that effect (l'etymologie est une science dans
laquelle les consonnes comptent pour tres peu et les voyelles pour rien).
It is given in various forms, but no one has been able to find it in
Voltaire's works. One hears occasionally that it derives from Max Muller of
Chips from a German Workshop fame. Does anyone have a better lead?
Jim Marchand.
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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 08:29:12 -0500 (EDT)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: Wellcome Institute catalogue

According to an advert in the TLS for 1 April, the Wellcome Institute
Library Database and Catalogue (for the Wellcome Institute for the
History of Medicine) is accessible via Internet at WIHM.UCL.AC.UK.
Unfortunately the announcement does not say by what mechanism (telnet?
gopher? other?). I have tried telnet and gopher without success.
Perhaps someone from the Institute, reading this, will publish the
details on Humanist. The problem may simply be that my machine does
not yet know the IP address corresponding to WIHM.UCL.AC.UK.

Thanks for any help.

WM

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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 08:39:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Phyllis Wright <pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
Subject: Napoleon


I have searched all the books of quotations in our Library and checked
many books on Napoleon; however, I have not been able to verify the following
line attributed to him. Can someone help? The line is:

"Let China Sleep"

Many thanks
Cheers!
Phyllis Wright
Brock University Library
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada
L2S 3A1
pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca