Dashes, loops, wiggles, and blanks: this article investigates the visual oddities of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.

This article explains how the novel took shape in the 18th century with the works of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne, and how the book industry responded to the new genre.

This resource provides more than 200 sheet music compositions that represent Lincoln, the Civil War and the times. Compiled by the greatest private collector of Lincoln material, Alfred Whital Stern.

An image of "Laurence Sterne", created by Joseph Nollekens in 1766 (Marble).

Alan Stern explains how NASA's New Horizons mission will to allow us to see Pluto for the first time.

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library serves as a gateway to two other American Memory Collections on Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress and the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana. Also included within...

This page provides access to the text of the speech "Achieving Economic Stability: Lessons From the Crash of 1929" by Gary H. Stern, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. It compares the Crash of 1929 to the Crash of 1987.

An excellent overview of electron spin, what it means in non-mathematical terms and quantum mechanical terms.

This article by Herbert Steinhouse, published in Saturday Night, April 1994, is not only the earliest account we have of Oskar Schindler, but also the only one that contains direct contemporary interviews.

An explanation using quantum mechanics to describe the atom.

Introduction to the quantum mechanical model of the atom: Thinking about electrons as probabilistic matter waves using the de Broglie wavelength, the Schrodinger equation, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Electron spin and the...

In this non-prose piece, the author shares sensory-filled images about a street in New York City where many homeless reside.

"Get your sailing skills the fun way on our Sail Safe pages." The National Maritime Museum promotes safe sailing with this interactive lesson and game.

Examination of the HMS Victory, an eighteenth-century sailing ship.

Contains over five hundred Geometry articles, problems, puzzles, and games. Some sites relating to circles are provided within this list.

An image of "St John of Nepomuk", created by Ignaz Sternz (Oil on canvas, 172 x 123 cm).

An image of "The Vision of St Filippo Neri", created by Ludovico Sternz (Oil on copper, 39 x 30 cm).

Called also navis aperta, a ship which had no deck but was merely covered with planks in the front and hinder part, as is represented in the following cut. The ships which had decks were called cataphracti. At the time of the Trojan war...

Greek aplustria, or stern ornament.

A rudder. Before the invention of the rudder, which Pliny ascribes to Tiphys, the pilot of the ship Argo, vessels were both propelled and guided by oars alone. This circumstance may account for the form of the ancient rudder, as well as...

Information on the emotion of disgust. Also contains information on the Disgust Scale and has links to more in-depth articles about disgust.

An image of Massachusetts State Monuments.