Prieure De Sion - Les Nautonies/Grand Masters

Jean De Gisors: 1188 - 1220
Marie De Saintt Clair: 1220 - 1266
Greillaum De Gisors: 1266 - 1307
Edouard De Bar: 1307 - 1336
Teame De Bar: 1336 - 1366
Blance D' Evreux: 1366 - 1398
Nicolas Flamet: 1398 - 1418
Rene D' Amjou: 1418 - 1480
Iolande De Bar: 1480 - 1483
Sandro Bollicelli: 1483 - 1510
Lenardo Da Vinci: 1510 - 1519
Connetable De Bourlon: 1519 - 1525
Ferdinand De Gonzague: 1525 - -1575
Louis De Nevers: 1575 - -1595
Robert Fludd: 1595 - 1637
J. Valentin Andrea: 1637 - 1654
Robert Boyle: 1654 - 1691
Isaac Newton: 1691 - 1727
Charles Radclyffe: 1727 - 1746
Charles De Lorraine: 1746 - 1780
Maximilian De Lorraine: 1780 - 1801
Charles Nodier: 1801 - 1844
Victor Hugo: 1844 - 1885
Claude Debussy: 1885 - 1918
Jean Cocteau: 1918 - 1963

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

Another Old Book Ad - Frank Yerdy

From the back pages of my yellowing 1961 copy of Bruce Catton's A Stillness at Appomattox, an old ad for Frank Yerby's books. I haven't had time to research Frank's work yet, but his book entitled The Vixens is intriguing.

The Ballantine Horror Series

I found this list of additional titles of Ballentine’s horror line of books in The Survivor and Others, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. This volume was published in 1957 and with its yellowing and water damaged pages is not in great condition.

#377K The Sound of Hos Horn, Sarban
#380K Tales to be Told in the Dark, Basil Davenport
#431K The Doll Maker, Sarbon
#458K Some of your Blood, Theodore Sturgeon
#466K Things with Claws, edited by Whit and Hallie Burnett
#508K Night'sBlack Agents, Fritz Lieber, Jr.
#522K Tales of Love and Horror, editor Don Congdon
#574 Zackerly's Vulture Stew

In addition, there are three books featured at the bottom the back cover.

Alone by Night
Shaddows with Eyes
Nine Orro

These titles may or may not still be available, but with not posting this list these titles would be lost to most of us.

Fu-Manchu Revisited

"The high forehead, the chiseled, aggressive nose, the thin lips, were those of an aristocrat, a thinker, and a devil."

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Most of what I have read of Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu-Manchu series have been eubs. Project Guntenberg feature a few of Rohmer's Dr. Fu-Manchu novels. In addition, to the Dr. Fu-Manchu series they offer a few additional titles. All that I have read have been great and suspenseful reads.

Here is a list from Wikipedia of Rohmers Fu-Manchu novels

Fu-Manchu Novels by Sax Rohmer

• The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913). A number of 1912 stories were combined into this novel.
• The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1916).
• The Hand of Fu Manchu (1917).
• Daughter of Fu Manchu (1931).
• The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932).
• The Bride of Fu Manchu (1933).
• The Trail of Fu Manchu (1934).
• President Fu Manchu (1936).
• The Drums of Fu Manchu (1939).
• The Island of Fu Manchu (1940).
• The Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948).
• The Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948).
• The Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948).
• Re-Enter:Fu Manchu (1957).
• Emperor Fu Manchu (1959).

The Wrath of Fu Manchu (1973). Actually a combination of the previously published stories:

• The Wrath of Fu Manchu (1952)
• The Eyes of Fu Manchu (1957)
• The Word of Fu Manchu (1958)
• The Mind of Fu Manchu (1959)

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More References to Fu-Manchu

Chronology of Dr. Fu Manchu and Sir Denis Nayland Smith

More of his excellency Dr. Fu-Manchu,

Public Domain Comics Wiki(Fu-Manchu )

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"He spoke every civilized language with near perfection, and knows countless dialects as well. He has the brains of any three men of genius."

Quotes are from Emperor Fu Manchu (1959).

Another List - The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Here is another list. It is a long one and I am a little surprised on the titles and authors that were not listed. I have read a few of these titles and have least heard and have read from many of the listed authors.

You should know that I like to read science fiction, so I have another selection to choose from.

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

Karhidish Days of the Month

Where as the Karhidish calendar year is fourteen months long, a month consists of twenty-six days. Usually for clarity, the name of the day is given followed by the month. For an example- Eps in the month of Moth. Local dialects may pronounce these differently.

Number of the month	Name of day	Number of the month	Name of day
1	Getheny	14	Odgeheny
2	Sordny	15	Odsordny
3	Eps	16	Odeps
4	Arhad	17	Odarhad
5	Netherhad	18	Onnetherhad
6	Streth	19	Odstrath
7	Berny	20	Obberny
8	Orny	21	Odorny
9	Harhahad	22	Odharhahar
10	Guyny	23	Odguyrny
11	Yrny	24	Odyrny
12	Posthe	25	Opposthe
13	Tormenbod	26	Ottormenbod

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin

The Karhidish Calendar

The planet named Winter has 14 a month year. “The solar and lunar calendars concur so closely that adjustment is required only once in 200 years.” The 14 months coincide with four seasons and are named as follows:

Winter:

1. Thern
2. Thanero
3. Nimmer
4. Anner

Spring:

5. Irrem
6. Moth
7. Tuwa

Summer:

8. Osme
9. Ockre
10. Kus
11. Hakanna

Autumn:

12. Gor
13. Susmy
14. Grende

Although you would suspect winter like weather to start in the month of Thern, however snow usually start to fall in the month of Grenda. With up to five months of winter, the planet Winter revieves between twenty and thirty feet of snow.

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin

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The Karhidish names for the twenty-six days of the month

Other Books by Charles S. Small

Far Wheels (Narrow gauge around the world)
Rails to the Rising Sun (Private narrow gauge railroads of Japan)
Rails to the Setting Sun (More narrow gauge railroads around the world)
Rails to the Mines (Taiwan’s very narrow lines to the coal mines)
Rails to Doomsday (The tragic story of Corregidor’s three-footers)
Rails to the Diggings (The five gauges used to build the Panama Canal)
Military Railroads of the Panama Canal Zone (The rial lines for the guns)
California's Railway Guns (The Army’s 365 ton railway guns)
Rails to the Front (World War I’s two foot trench railroads)
Far Wheels II (Partial reprint with much new material)
The Summer of 1941 (Denver, Rio Grande & Western with John Maxwell)
Brazilian Steam Album I (Plus and minus two-footers)
Brazilian Steam Album II (Premier Brazilian lines with C. Hahmann)
Brazilian Steam Album III (Ready 1987)
Brazilian Steam Album IV (Ready 1987)

A List of Espionage Thrillers

Here's another list. This one of espionage thrillers found in text and film.

1. A Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carrie
2. The Kremlin Letter, Noel Behn
3. The Billion Dollar Brain, Len Deighton
4. Funeral in Berlin, Len Deighton
5. An Expensive Place to Die, Len Deighton
6. A Dandy in Aspic, Derek Marlowe
7. Heirs of Cain, Abraham Rothberg
8. A Thousand Doors, Abraham Rothberg
9. The Looking Glass War, John Le Carrie
10. Hammerhead, James Mayo
11. Let Sleeping Girls Live, James Mayo

A Comparison of English and American Railway Terms, 1

Compiled from Railroading Around the World, by S. Kip Farrington, Jr.

British	American
Signal box	Tower or signal station
Breakdown van	Wrecking trains
Break van	Caboose
Locomotive shed	Engine terminal
Locomotive shed master	Engine house foreman
Goods trains	Freight trains
Wagons	Freight cars
Vehicles	Passenger cars
Axles	Number of axles in the train
Bogies	Four-wheel trucks
Foot plate	Deck of locomotive
Driver	Engineman
Regulator	Throttle
Assistant locomotive	Helper
Banker	Pusher
Cross	Meet
Loop	Passing track
Level crossing	Highway crossing
Shunter	Yard or switch engine
Shunting	Switching
Marshall yard	Freight yard
Marshalling	Classifying
Engine road	Engine track to engine house
Coaling road	Coal track
Sorting siding	Classification tracks
Reception sidings	Receiving yards
Assembling sidings	Departure siding
Neck	Throat
Double incline	Hump

Ten Facts about Pirates

As the title implies, Ten Facts about Pirates, lists ten interesting facts about pirates. Did you know that pirates had rules and regulations that had to be adhered to, that there were some woman that became pirates and that piracy did not just take place on the Spanish Main? Whether fact or lore the page expounds on those I mentioned, and lists seven other interesting facts about pirates.