Links

For starters:

• Links to walking and pilgrimage sites on Walking with Awareness.
• The Connections page of the Elgin and Hillside Coin Clubs lists links where you can find a lot more than coins.
• Check out some minute fact about a far away place in the CIA Worldfact book.
• Read an Elgin Coin Club Newsletter.
• Convert international currencies.
• Learn more about coin collecting at the American Numismatics Association.

Someone once said that searching the internet is like rummaging in your attic or garage--you go up or out at noon looking for one thing and come back at five with (or without) what you were looking for and fully satisfied because of several other things you found. I give you this list to help you find that little gem you may be looking for. At the same time I hope you have a lot of fun finding totally unrelated things.

Use your borwser's Page Search (Ctrl+F on the PC) to find a particular word of phrase to lead you to the link you are looking for.

Choose from the following topics. Have fun.

Coins | Eritrea and Ethiopia | Trains | Military Service | Language

• Connections--Elgin coin clubs' links page.
• Elgin Coin Club
• The American Numismatic Association's (ANA) 1998 Summer Seminar - a series of articles detailing the happenings at the ANA summer seminar in 1998.
• Foreign Currency Converter - check exchange rates here
• Numismatic Bibliomania Society - a non-profit educational organization founded in 1980 to support and promote the use and collecting of numismatic literature.

• Ethiopia: Travels of a Youth--a CD-ROM book describing people and places in Ethiopia and Eritrea during the late 1960s when I lived there with the US Army.
• Axum: Coins and Places--a video of coins and places associated with ancient Axum, an ancient Ethiopian power center.
• Kagnew Station--a site dedicated to the military and civilian personnel who served at Kagnew Station in Asmara, Eritrea.
• Asmara, Eritrea--a wonderful collection of words and pictures of Asmara taken by a traveler from the Netherlands.
• Asmarino.com--a "cyberspace meeting place for all Eritreans and their friends around the world
• The War Memoirs of Capt. Alec James Barthorpe--Memoirs of a British officer in World War II who served in the Eritrea campaign.

• Italian-Eritrean Railway and Tramway--This personal site has narratives on the Italian-build Eritrean railroad and the aerial tramway. It also includes a reproduction of a slick Italian magazine issued by the Italian builders of the tramway.
• Trainweb--a site that hosts hundreds of sites dedicated to trains.
• Eritrean Railway and Ropeway--Ralph R. Reinhold's site with a wealth of detailed technical detail, narrative, and pictures.

• Kagnew Station--a site dedicated to the military and civilian personnel who served at Kagnew Station in Asmara, Eritrea.

• Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and thesaurus
• Infoplease.com dictionary
• American Heritage Dictionary--The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language, Roget's Thesaurus, and more
• Cambridge Dictionaries--including idioms and phrases
• Encarta World English Dictionary--includes links to Encarta encyclopedia
• Oxford English Dictionary--the 20-volume second edition. Subscription only $550 a year but you can go on a free tour. And you can order a CD version for $295.
• Dictionaries and grammars for 270 languages--find the meaning of that Kiswahili, Urdu, Sumarian, Ogibwe, or English word. This includes many dictionaries on specialties, learning opportunities, and translators to help you.
• Biographical Dictionary-- this dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
• Wordsmith.Org--a.word.a.day; anagrams of your input; get definitions, anagrams, synonyms, and acronyms by email; generate statistics from email lists.
• Voice of America--start here and find a VOA program in any language you are studying or just want to listen to.