I read this article with some interest as my husband puts many books into the Gutenberg project. He is blind and presents the material in a particular electronic format that can be accessed easily by blind people using particular software packages.
I am enjoying news about matters Goan Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 14 March 2004 21:05 Subject: [Goanet-news]AMAZING GOA: Konkani verse, Baroque, Olympics, 15+ kids, Boca de Vaca > THIS IS from Jose F P Lourenco's *Amazing Goa* set of cards. Jose dipped > into my home-collection of Goa-related books a bit, to scour for some > "amazing" facts. Incidentally, my Goa-books collection used to be > 600-strong, when I stopped counting about a decade back. But I know at > least one Goanetter who has three times that size a collection. Guess who? > Dunno if I'm allowed to spill the beans on this; we Goans can be notorious > book-borrowers... > > While on this note, I would like to encourage every reader to collect > books on Goa. It not only builds our own awareness, helps us understand > our home more deeper, but also helps to encourage the writer. While > wishing my friend and ex-colleague Tony Martin well with his Goan > international writers plan, one initiative could be to make Goa books > available via networks like Project Gutenberg (http://gutenberg.net), > thus making them available to posterity... In the last two months, we > managed putting up two books there. Volunteers needed to identify > interesting copyright-expired books, or even new titles, where the author > is willing to also make the same available in public domain. FN > > Which literary work by Konkani writer Naguesh Karmali > won him the Sahitya Akademi award? [Nakshtranchem Dennem > (poetry)] > > What is the architectural style of the St Francis of Assisi > Church, Old Goa, and the Holy Spirit Church, Margao? > [Neo-Roman Baroque, built in the 17th century] > > Which Bombay-based football players scored a hat-trick > at the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne? Meville D'Souza (Assagao) > > According to the Census of 1940, how many women in Goa > had 15 to 18 children each? [64] > > What does the name of the *Boca de Vaca* fountain > in Panaji mean? [Mouth of a Cow] > > [197] > > ########################################################################## > # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # > # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # > # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # > # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # > ########################################################################## > > ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
