Ramesses Needs a Passport!

Ramesses II, the Great, is considered the most celebrated and most powerful pharaoh of ancient Egypt. This small article, transcribed in Simplified Gregg by yours truly, covers some interesting aspects of his life and death. Attachment: ramesses-needs-a-passport.pdf

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Applied Secretarial Practise

Something reminded me of the “Applied Secretarial Practise” book I got 10 or 20 years ago. It is not at all useful for shorthand, though there are some “motivating” paragraphs in shorthand near the end from which I did pick up the useful phrase “as far as” s-f-s which was not in my phrase book….

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Kit Carson

This is an short account of the fascinating life of Kit Carson, one of the most important figures in the westward expansion of the United States, written by American author, naturalist, and botanist Donald Culross Peattie. I transcribed it for the blog in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: kit-carson.pdf

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The Grand Peak

Rising 14,115 feet above sea level, Pikes Peak is about 12 miles west of Colorado Springs, and is the highest mountain in the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Named after American explorer Zebulon Pike, here is the story of the first American sighting of the mountain, transcribed in Simplified Gregg by me for…

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The Operations of Nature

In this small extract from his book Consolations in Travel, British chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy describes the natural forces that shape the world that we live in. I transcribed it in Centennial Gregg for the blog. Attachment: the-operations-of-nature.pdf 

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Our 7-Mile Dive to Bottom – Part 1

The Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean, is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. Measuring about 1,580 miles in length and 43 miles in width, its maximum known depth is 36,037 feet (about 7 miles), located at the southern end of a small valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep. If…

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