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And All the Arts of Peace: Phonography, Simplified Speling, and the Spelling Reform Movement, Toronto 1883 to 1886
2017
[...]wrote Houston, the spelling of authors in the past already was variant-Milton wrote both winds and windes, for example-so spelling reform would interfere not with the \"original\" Milton but, rather, with the regularization that was a later superimposition. [...]the association may have lost its assurance of coverage in the Globe-there is some evidence that Houston's parting with the Globe was not, at least initially, a happy one, although he would retain a life-long association to the paper-but the absence of items in the World is more puzzling, given that newspaper's interest in the spelling reform cause. [...]Mr. Houston contended for greater freedom of orthography, not in the interest of diversity, but in the interest of simplicity of spelling. [...]Session of Sixth Legislature of the Province of Ontario.
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Paper trail
2004
In a telegram written Jun 14, 1886, Mayor Malcolm MacLean of Vancouver conveyed the devastation of his city to the prime minister of Canada. Incorporated only two months earlier, the city had more than one thousand buildings, almost all of which were destroyed by what is known today as the \"Great Fire.\"
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Acts of God or Acts of Congress?
2000
In his new book, \"Acts of God: An Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America,\" professor Ted Steinberg examines nature as a venue for considering questions of social justice. He asserts that disasters such as tornadoes and hurricanes aren't simply acts of God or acts of nature.
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