http://home.att.net/~e.jurick/TTSS-5-25-2008.pdf

http://home.att.net/~e.jurick/TTSS-5-25-2008.pdf

Telectroscope allows Londoners, New Yorkers to see each other in real time

In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the
Telectroscope: an 11.2-meter-(37 feet) long by 3.3-meter-(11 feet) tall
dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look
into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side
via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/22/scope.project/index.html

-- Ernie

Who remembers the Fucci Manouli, "the world's finest automobile"? It came
with a copy of a magazine on the front seat.

What magazine? Who invented the Fucci? How much did it cost?

No prizes but we can reminisce.

Leon

Here's a poem by William Topaz McGonagall, whom many consider to have
been the worst poet ever, although there may be a few here in
thinkquest who put him to shame. A folio of McGonagall's poems
recently sold for $13,000 at auction because the poems are so
laughably bad.

McGonagall wrote "The Tay Bridge Disaster" to memorialize a tragic
bridge collapse near his hometown of Dundee, Scotland. Here are some
excerpts:*

The Tay Bridge Disaster

So the train mov'd slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay.

After seeing such a large market, I have arranged to purchase 59 horses'
fronts.

For a small fee, I will send one to someone you may know for assembly into a
complete horse.

Leon