The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), sharing its name with Captain Nemo’s fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine. It was the first to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on August 3, 1958. Decommissioned in 1980, it is…
”Supertick” Hello, a short excerpt from a book about survival in nature. The author, David Manise, talks about his encounter with a tick and is praising its survival skills. Warning: tickbullying… Edit: corrections done.
Straddling the Arctic Circle, the Great Bear Lake, in the Northwest Territories of Canada, is the largest lake entirely in Canada, the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world. At just over 12,000 square miles, it is bigger than Belgium. Its maximum depth of 1,463 feet makes it deeper than Lake Superior….
Here is the second and last part of the Trieste’s historic dive into the Challenger Deep by Walsh and Piccard, told by the former, and transcribed by yours truly in Anniversary Gregg. Attachment: our-7-mile-dive-to-bottom-part-2.pdf
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…
This is the second and final part of last month’s article about the fascinating sport of bobsledding, here transcribed by me for the blog in Anniversary. Attachment: down-the-mountain-part-2.pdf
The sport of bobsleigh or bobsled has been part of the Olympic Games since the first Winter Games celebrated in Chamonix, France, in 1924. This article, transcribed by yours truly in Anniversary Gregg, explains some of the features and dangers of the sport, as well as some of the experiences of those who practice it….
From her book Bits About Home Matters, American poet Helen Hunt Jackson (H. H.) shares her ideas of what should be included in a Christmas dinner. I transcribed it in Anniversary for the blog. Attachment: a-simple-bill-of-fare-for-a-christmas-dinner.pdf
Every fall, thousands of Monarch butterflies flock to Monterey County in California, settling in at forest groves to wait out the winter. Though the butterflies congregate in areas from Big Sur through Monterey, their best-known wintering-over spot is in Pacific Grove. This area, filled with pine and eucalyptus trees, is the preferred Monarch butterfly habitat…
In early June 1912, a cataclysmic explosion occurred in a remote area of Alaska, about 250 miles southwest of Anchorage. The explosion was so massive that its effects were felt in places as far away from the explosion as Washington D.C., as high-altitude haze robbed the northern temperate zone of about 10% of the Sun’s…