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Van Dongen: a new name in the ancestry of the Verveelen family
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2013-03)A power-of-attorney granted by the New Netherland colonist Daniel Verveelen in 1658 mentions his "great-grandmother Catharina Jans van Dongen." This article examines the question of whether she was the same as his known ... -
“By Nature Fram’d to Wear a Crown”? Decolonizing the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Brief Chronicles, 2014-01-01)The paper suggests that the academy's marginalization of Shakespeare authorship scholarship originates in the imperial origins of the broader culture, in particular within the totalizing, essentialist and self-aggrandizing ... -
Winnipeg Site Implementation Final Report
(2014-09-26)This report documents the implementation of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi project in Winnipeg. It reports on the viewpoints and perspectives of the site’s stakeholders concerning the fidelity ... -
Towards a Pragmatechnic Shakespeare Studies: A Review-Essay on U. Cambridge’s Shakespeare and the Digital World
(2015)A review essay of the 2014 book, Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice edited by Christie Carson and Peter Kirwan (Cambridge University Press, 2015). -
Knowledge Ill-Inhabited: The Subjugation of Post-Stratfordian Scholarship in Academic Libraries
(The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2015-09-13)Since 2000 there has been a surge of scholarly and popular publishing supporting the proposition that the name “Shake-Speare” was a pseudonym disguising a nobleman named Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, while the ... -
On the Andrews Congruence for the Fibonacci Quotient
(Fibonacci Association, 2015-11)We show that a congruence discovered by George E. Andrews in 1969 for the Fibonacci quotient directly implies a simpler congruence found by Hugh C. Williams in 1991. -
Publishing to WinnSpace
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A Library Matter of Genocide: Native North American Genocides in Library of Congress subject Headings and Classification
(2016-02-03)The ways in which genocides, war crimes and atrocities are recognized by history can often depend on political considerations and alliances, and are, as a result, reflected in the language used to describe them. So it is ... -
Looking Not on His Picture, but His Books: Two New Histories of Folger’s Quest for First Folios Shed Unintended Light on the Authorship Question
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2016-05)A review of two recently-released books, The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays and Stephen Grant’s Collecting Shakespeare, both of which explore Henry and Emily Folgers’ shared obsession with collecting First Folios ... -
A Characterization of Wilson-Lerch Primes
(Integers, 2016-07)This note presents criteria in terms of Bernoulli numbers for a prime to be simultaneously a Wilson prime and a Lerch prime. -
Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Locating the Ideology of the “Library of the Future”
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017)For many decades now library practitioners have been generating a vast literature concerned with the “library of the future.” While much of this literature may be classified according to its imperatives for radical versus ... -
The German Origin of Andreas Flach, of Flocktown, German Valley, Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey
(Genealogical Society of New Jersey, 2017)While previously known records of Andreas Flach (1711-1779) of Flocktown contain no direct clue as to his place of origin, the basic structure of his family is established by the account in Chambers's Early Germans of New ... -
A matrix variation on Ramus's identity for lacunary sums of binomial coefficients
(International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science / Lebanese University, Beirut, 2017-01)We study the well-known lacunary sums of binomial coefficients considered, most notably, by Christian Ramus, and their connection to a special kind of harmonic number associated with the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem. ... -
The Revised Procrastinator's Handbook of Library Research
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Becoming an Oxfordian: The Phenomenology of Shifting Research Paradigms in Shakespearean Biography
(2018-06-16)This essay seeks to gain a phenomenological understanding of the journey from skepticism in the traditional biography of Shakespeare to belief that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the poet-playwright, and how this ... -
Six Shakespeares in Search of an Author (Book Review)
(The Oxfordian, 2018-09-07)A common objection levelled against authorship doubters is that the number of candidates claimed for the authorship of the Shakespeare canon makes it highly unlikely any of them could have been the true author. In My ... -
Joseph Rosenblum, “The Authorship Questions,” in The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: Overviews, Documents, and Analysis (vol. 1): 79-94
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2018-11)An early chapter of the 2018 reference work, The Definitive Shakespeare Companion: A Comprehensive Guide for Students concerning the Shakespeare Authorship Question, is found to be inadequate, poorly-researched and filled ... -
Putting Users and Small-Scale Creators First in Canadian Copyright Law and Beyond: A Brief submitted to INDU Statutory Review of the Copyright Act
(2018-12-10)In an industry characterized by market consolidation, an imbalance of power between creators and big businesses is one of the largest factors that prevents fair remuneration for creators. Proposals for legislation that do ...