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#185: The World Book entry on the Rosicrucians claims that the Rosicrucian Order "originated in ancient Egypt." In, I don't know, eight point font at the end of the entry are the words "Critically reviewed by the Rosicrucian Order." Well, of *course*.

#250: For starters, Davies' numerous errors of fact--at least one per page, on average.

Can't believe I forgot this--Peter Haining's work, as "scholar" and anthologist.

David Foster Wallace's Signifying Rappers.

Norman Davies' Europe.

World Book Encyclopedia

Jack Williamson: The Legion of Space, 1934, Queen of the Legion, 1982.

Alternatively, Bible -> Book of Mormon.

I have a question for the editorial and proofreading types. (And, heck, the readers of encyclopedias).

I'm writing an encyclopedia of characters. I have three types of names: first name, last name (Sherlock Holmes); title, last name (Doctor Silence); and pseudonym (Captain Future).

What is the best way to list them? That is, what is the best order to put the names in so that a casual reader, flipping through the book, will be able to find a character?

a) last name, first name, for every entry? (Future, Captain; Holmes, Sherlock; Silence, Doctor).
b) last name, first name or title, and first name, last name for pseudonyms? (Captain Future; Holmes, Sherlock; Silence, Doctor).
c) last name, first name, title, first name, and first name, last name for pseudonyms? (Captain Future; Doctor Silence; Holmes, Sherlock).

Thanks in advance.

Chris Johnson: ProQuest Dissertations has this:

Cautela, D'angelo, D'agostino and Di Donato: the Achievement of First and Second Generation Italian-American Writers of the New York Region by Barbara Gae Bauer.

So, no, I don't think she was lying about that.

Erick--

Come visit the universities in Texas. The one I work at, there's a philosophy professor who goes off on tangents, during lectures, about "the homosexual conspiracy."

He's hardly the only one here who holds those views or makes a point of inserting them into his lectures.

And he's not unusual in academia in the South, either.

More for the bad rats list:

I will not play hide-and-seek with my humans. If I do, I will not hide (and then go to sleep) in the pocket of a jacket, to be discovered when one of the humans is getting ready to go to work.

I will not chew the paint off of any doorframes.

I will not drag an entire ball of Manos yarn into my cage.

I will not try to augur my head into the mouth of one of my humans and then groom his tongue. Rodentistry is only for volunteers.

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