Ora Matushansky's site - personal index

Fun stuff

• Ora's alphabet
• My name (or when a Rose is not a rose)
• Confucius say... and more wisdom
  Some real sayings of Confucius
• Words of wisdom, words of boredom
• Something beautiful
• The thought of the moment

• How to write your paper: quotations from the Minimalist Program (contributions welcome)
• The image of the universal grammar
• Some quotes about linguistics
• Top Ten Reasons Why Syntax Is Better Than Sex
• Greatest hits from a linguist's perspective
   
• A syntactic poem (very moving)
• Another syntactic poem (very recursive)

Personal

• My PGP public key
• My friends on the web

Literature

• A page dedicated to C. L. Moore
• Victorian and Edwardian literature: Ouida, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, A. C. Swinburne, etc.
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (thanks to T.O. for sending these to me)
  We have seen thee, O Love...
  The Garden of Proserpine
  A Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon
  To a Cat
  More poems by Swinburne can be found at the Online Book Initiative

• Lewis Carroll: The Hunting of the Snark

History and art

• One of the greatest politicians of all times, he was admired or hated, but never disregarded. Read about Armand-Jean du Plessis Cardinal de Richelieu (unfinished and will probably remain so)
  Biography (part 1)
  Links
• Francesco di Cristofano, known (or unknown) as Franciabigio:
  Biography by Georgio Vasari
  Portraits (Berlin, Florence, London, Paris, Vienna)
  Links
• One of the handsomest men of the Italian Renaissance, he was a cardinal and a prince...
  Bibliography
  Links

Links by subject

• Work-related
• Linguistic and pseudo-linguistic
• Online libraries and book collections
• Various references
• Cesare Borgia
• Cardinal de Richelieu
• Art (including Franciabigio)
• Onomastics
• Sci-fi
• Sir Richard Francis Burton
• Website design and internet (mis/ab)use
• Music
• The Aquatic Ape Theory
• Friends

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