Thursday, April 17, 2008

Report: Overview of the Federal Tax System and Its Effect in 2008
Report: Overview of the Federal Tax System and Its Effect in 2008, Scheduled for a Public Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Finance on April 15, 2008. Prepared by the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, April 14, 2008, JCX-32-08.

Regional travels Asheville, North Carolina
There's something about Asheville that makes its blend of remote Appalachian charm and cosmopolitan sophistication seem perfectly natural. The city abounds in cultural attractions and events, many stemming from the literary greats who have lived here. Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg and O. Henry all once called Asheville home. The area's spectacular beauty led millionaire George W. Vanderbilt to locate Biltmore, his castle-like mansion, in Asheville, and the city has historically been a resort.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g60742-Asheville_North_Carolina-Vacations.html
Sandburg home in Flat Rock: http://www.nps.gov/carl/
Great Smoky Mountains National Park:
http://www.romanticasheville.com/greatsmokymountains.htm
Biltmore estate: http://www.biltmore.com/
Thomas Wolfe Memorial http://www.wolfememorial.com/
Be sure and eat at Vincenzo’s in Asheville. (Daniel Day-Lewis did while filming Last of the Mohicans at the Biltmore estate.) http://www.vincenzos.com/

ve·hi·cle Pronunciation: \ˈvē-ə-kəl also ˈvē-ˌhi-kəl\ noun
French véhicule, from Latin vehiculum carriage, conveyance, from vehere to carry
Date: 1612
www.m-w.com

more kinds of vehicles: surrey, all-terrain vehicle (ATV), chariot, tank, cart, rickshaw, motorcycle, tractor, truck, van, amphibious vehicle (DUK-W/DUCK, Seep/Sea Jeep, Seagoing Jeep) http://www.jeep-history.com/AmphibiousJeeps.asp, scooter, personal transporter (Segway) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway, unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, quadricycle http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/1896/photos.html
Thanks to Toledo downtown law librarians for help with the list

Dr. Anne Adams was a Canadian scientist who died of a rare brain disease -- frontotemporal dementia -- which caused her to give up her lab and engage in an ecstasy of creative effort (and an agony of frustration as her mathematical ability slipped away), mostly centered on Ravel's Bolero, a composition he wrote in the throes of the same disease. In 1994, Dr. Adams became fascinated with the music of the composer Maurice Ravel, her husband recalled. At age 53, she painted “Unravelling Bolero” a work that translated the famous musical score into visual form.
http://bothhands.ca/rss/feed.php?channel=28&iid=154739&y=2008&m=04&d=08
image: http://72.9.98.98/Art/Patient%20Art/pat_art_adamsa_bolero.html
story and location of the picture: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13599-bol%E9ro-beautiful-symptom-of-a-terrible-disease.html

endogamy (en-DOG-uh-mee) noun
The practice of marriage within a specific social group
[From endo- (within), from Greek endon (within) + -gamy (marriage), from Greek gamos (marriage).]
A.Word.A.Day

Where, oh where is Andorra, a country just 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/an.html

The earth is humming below the limits of human hearing
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24162461/

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com

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