Archive for May 2012
The Hunger Games
I enjoyed Suzanne Collin’s novel, The Hunger Games, and I watched the movie yesterday. The premise is a young woman’s struggle to survive against impossible odds, and at the same time, to preserve her humanity. A different truth struck me. The future world that she painted reflected too closely Germany under Adolf Hitler and the Soviet…
Read MoreThe Affair
I just finished reading The Affair. It is Lee Child’s sixteenth book casting Jack Reacher. Jack is the man that most teenage boys wish they could be—big, strong, smart, confident, and fearless with war scars and more success in bed than Stuart Wood’s Stone Barrington. In the first fifteen novels, he has washed out of the…
Read MoreLondon Cromartie family
I recently received an email from Edward Cromartie of New Jersey whose lineage extends back to London. He has an interesting web page on the Cromarty family. http://www.edwardcromarty.com/LINEAGE.htm
Read MoreViral Hemorrhagic Fever
Viral hemorrhagic fever is a title given to a spectrum of diseases caused by viruses that affect the vascular bed. Fever, myalgia, and prostration occur early; and petechial hemorrhages, hypotension, and conjunctivitis are common findings. Bleeding from mucous membranes, shock, and death may follow. Yellow fever killed ten percent of the population of Philadelphia during…
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