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Test

The Sun is pretty big.^[1] But the Moon^[2] is not so big.^[3] The Sun is also quite hot.^[4]

Notes

^ Miller (2005), The Sun, Oxford, p. 23. But Miller points out that the Sun is not as large as some other stars.
^ The Moon goes by other names, such as Selena - see, for example Jones (2005), The Solar System, MacMillan, p. 623.
^ Brown (2006), The Moon, Penguin, p. 46. Historically the Moon was not always considered to be large, see, for example Peterson (2005), Astronomy, MacMillan, p. 623.
^ Smith (2005), The Universe, Random House, p. 334.

Chakobsa (NW Caucasian?)

/šʿˊakʾ°abza/: /šʿˊakʾ°abza/

The Northwest Caucasian Languages (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics): A Phonological Survey

John Colarusso, Routledge, Jan 21, 2014 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 520 pages

SUMMARY Perhaps more than any other group of languages those of the Caucasus are famous for their enormous and difficult consonantal systems. It is by no means exceptional for one of these languages to have as many as 50 consonants, and of these languages those from the Northwest Caucasus have the largest and most complex consonantal systems. The extensive use of the articulatory regions of the mouth together with the occurrence of secondary modifications at many of these points is unequalled by any other known group of languages. This detailed study examines the languages of the Northwest Caucasus and provides an essential guide to this most complicated group of languages.

P.11, n.3 3. Perhaps to be included in the Circassian group is the secret language of the nobility, called “shikwoshir”, “chakobsa”, or the “hunting language”. Until recently the Circassians were stratified into 4 rigid social groups, roughly, princes, noblemen, freemen, and slaves. The nobles and princes had a secret language first recorded by the traveler Jacob Reineggs (1796, 248), in the form of 19 words. These words present a language which seems to share no cognates with any other language, including those of the NWC [Northwest Caucasian] family, despite the fact that its overall apperance is one of a NWC language. Long thought to be extinct this language is in fact still maintained by the descendants of the princes and nobles. In Bzedukh it is called /šʿˊakʾ°abza/ lit. 'hunting' /šʿˊakʾ°a/ + 'language' /bza/ (the name "chakobsa" reflects an earlier form of the word, */čʿˊakʾ°abza/). My principal informant ... asserts that it is a form of Circassian in which inversion and sound mutation have been used to produce a kind of coded speech — similar to Pig-Latin, but more complex. This hypothesis has yet to be verified, but it does not seem implausible on the face of the present available data.

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Alphabetic	Numeric	Date	Unsortable
d	20	2008-11-24	This
b	8	2004-03-01	column
a	6	1979-07-23	cannot
c	4	1492-12-08	be
e	0	1601-08-13	sorted.

Make this table sortable by state/province as well, by moving that datum into a separate column.

Convention	City	Country	Type	Website	Last or next scheduled date
Åcon	Mariehamn, Åland	Finland	SF/F	[1]	2016-05-05
Ad Astra	Toronto, Ontario	Canada	General	[2]	2019-07-12
AggieCon	College Station, Texas	United States	General	[3]	2019-03-22
Albacon	Albany, New York	United States	SF/F	[4]	2016-03-04
All-Con	Dallas, Texas	United States	General	[5]	2020-03-11
ApolloCon	Houston, Texas	United States	General	[6]	2015-06-19
Archon	St. Louis, Missouri	United States	General	[7]	2017-09-29
Arisia	Boston, Massachusetts	United States	General	[8]	2018-01-12
ArmadilloCon	Austin, Texas	United States	SF Literature	[9]	2019-08-02
BabelCon	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	United States	General		2012-10-12
Balticon	Baltimore, Maryland	United States	General	[10]	2018-05-25
BayCon	Santa Clara, California	United States	SF/F	[11]	2015-05-22
Boréal	Quebec City, Quebec	Canada	SF/F	[12]	2018-05-04
Boskone	Boston, Massachusetts	United States	SF/F	[13]	2018-02-16
BotCon	Louisville, KY	United States	Transformers	[14]	2016-04-07-10
Bubonicon	Albuquerque, New Mexico	United States	SF/F	[15]	2015-08-28
Capclave	Gaithersburg, Maryland	United States	General	[16]	2015-10-09
CAN-CON	Ottawa, Ontario	Canada	SF Literature	[17]	2018-10-12
Capricon	Wheeling, Illinois	United States	General	[18]	2018-02-15
Chattacon	Chattanooga, Tennessee	United States	General	[19]	2016-01-29
CoastCon	Biloxi, Mississippi	United States	General	[20]	2016-03-04
Con†Stellation	Huntsville, Alabama	United States	General	[21]	2015-10-16
ConCarolinas	Concord, North Carolina	United States	SF/F	[22]	2016-06-03
ConCoction	Cleveland, Ohio	United States	General/Literature/Media	[23]	2016-03-11
ConDFW	Dallas, Texas	United States	SF Literature	[24]	2019-02-15
CONduit	Salt Lake City, Utah	United States	General/Literature/Media	[25]	2015-05-22
Conestoga	Tulsa, Oklahoma	United States	SF/F	[26]	2010-04-23
Confluence	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	United States	General	[27]	2015-07-24
ConFusion	Detroit, Michigan	United States	General	[28]	2018-01-18
ConGlomeration	Louisville, Kentucky	United States	General	[29]	2018-03-30
ConQuesT	Kansas City, Missouri	United States	General	[30]	2018-05-25
CONvergence	Bloomington, Minnesota	United States	General	[31]	2018-07-05
Con-Version	Calgary, Alberta	Canada	General	[32]	2010-10-15
Comikaze Expo	Los Angeles, California	United States	General	[33]	2014-10-31
CrossingsCon	varies	varies	Young Wizards	[34]	2016-06-24
DeepCon	Fiuggi Fonte, Frosinone	Italy	General	[35]	2016-03-17
DemiCon	Des Moines, Iowa	United States	General	[36]	2018-05-04
Dimension Jump	Nottingham, England	UK	Red Dwarf	[37]	2015-05-01
Disclave	Washington, D.C.	United States	SF/F	[38]	1997-05-23
Diversicon	Saint Paul, Minnesota	United States	SF/F	[39]	2015-07-24
Dragoncon	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	General	[40]	2017-09-01
Eastercon	varies, England	UK	General	[41]	2016-03-25
EerieCon	Grand Island, New York	United States	SF/F/Horror	[42]	2015-08-02
Escape Velocity	Washington, DC	United States	SF	[43]	2016-07-01
Eurocon	varies		SF/F	[44]	2017-06-16
F.A.C.T.S.	Ghent	Belgium	General	[45]	2015-09-26
Fantasticon	Copenhagen	Denmark	SF/F	[46]	2018-09-21
FedCon	Düsseldorf	Germany	General	[47]	2015-05-21
FenCon	Dallas, Texas	United States	General	[48]	2019-09-20
Festival fantazie	Chotěboř	Czech Republic	General	[49]	2015-07-01
Finncon	Various	Finland	SF/F	[50]	2014-07-11
Gallifrey One	Los Angeles, California	United States	Doctor Who	[51]	2016-02-12
Gatecon	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada	Stargate, Dark Matter, Sanctuary and more	[52]	2016-09-08
Gaylaxicon	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	General	[53]	2015-05-08
Geek.Kon	Madison, Wisconsin	United States	General	[54]	2015-08-21
GenCon	Indianapolis, Indiana	United States	General	[55]	2015-07-30
Générations Star Wars et Science Fiction	Cusset	France	Star Wars	[56]	2016-04-30
G-Fest	Rosemont, Illinois	United States	Japanese Monsters	[57]	2018-07-13
Hal-Con	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Canada	General	[58]	2018-10-26
Hypericon	Nashville, Tennessee	United States	General	[59]	2018-07-06
Icecon	Reykjavik	Iceland	SF/F	[60]	2018-10-05
Icon	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	United States	SF/F	[61]	2015-10-16
ICon festival	Tel Aviv	Israel	SF/F	[62]	2017-10-08
I-CON	Hempstead, New York	United States	General	[63]	2014-03-08
InConJunction	Indianapolis, Indiana	United States	SF/F	[64]	2016-07-01
Itzacon Eire	National University of Ireland, Galway	Ireland	SF/F	[65]	2015-03-20
JordanCon	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	SF/F	[66]	2018-04-20
Lazy Dragon Con	McKinney, Texas	United States	General	[67]	2008-07-18
LepreCon	Phoenix, Arizona	United States	SF/F	[68]	2016-06-23
Life, the Universe, & Everything	Provo, Utah	United States	Academic	[69]	2016-02-11
Linucon	Austin, Texas	United States	General		2005-09-30
Lunacon	Rye Brook, New York	United States	General	[70]	2016-03-18
Maleyevka seminars	Saint Petersburg, Vasilevsky	Soviet Union/Russia	General/literature	[71]	2015-04-23
Marcon	Columbus, Ohio	United States	General	[72]	2015-05-08
MarsCon	Bloomington, Minnesota	United States	General	[73]	2018-03-02
MarsCon	Williamsburg, Virginia	United States	General	[74]	2016-01-15
MediaWest*Con	Lansing, Michigan	United States	SF/F	[75]	2015-05-22
MegaCon	Orlando, Florida	United States	General	[76]	2015-04-10
Microcon	Exeter, England	UK	SF/F		2013-02-23
MidSouthCon	Memphis, Tennessee	United States	General	[77]	2015-03-20
Midwestcon	Cincinnati, Ohio	United States	Relaxacon	[78]	2015-06-25
MileHiCon	Denver, Colorado	United States	SF/F	[79]	2018-10-19
Minicon	Minneapolis, Minnesota	United States	General	[80]	2018-03-30
MOBICON	Mobile, Alabama	United States	General	[81]	2015-05-22
MomoCon	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	General	[82]	2015-05-28
Multiverse	Atlanta, GA	United States	General	[83]	2019-10-18-20
MystiCon	Roanoke, Virginia	United States	General	[84]	2016-02-26
SFWA Nebula Conference	Pittsburgh, PA	United States	General	[85]	2018-05-17
New Zealand NatCon	Rotorua	New Zealand	General	[86]	2015-04-03
Nihon SF Taikai	Yūbari, Hokkaidō	Japan	General	[87]	2014
North American Science Fiction Convention	Various	United States	General	[88]	2014-07-17
Norwescon	Seattle, Washington	United States	General	[89]	2015-04-05
Novacon	Nottingham, England	UK	General	[90]	2015-11-13
Octocon	Dublin	Ireland	General	[91]	2015-10-10
OryCon	Portland, Oregon	United States	General	[92]	2015-11-20
Outlantacon	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	General	[93]	2015-05-08
Penguicon	Southfield, Michigan	United States	General	[94]	2015-04-24
Philcon	Cherry Hill, New Jersey	United States	General	[95]	2019-11-08
Polcon	Various	Poland	General	[96]	2015-08-27
Pyrkon	Poznań	Poland	General	[97]	2015-04-24
RadCon	Pasco, Washington	United States	General	[98]	2018-02-16
RavenCon	Richmond, Virginia	United States	General	[99]	2015-04-24
Readercon	Burlington, Massachusetts	United States	SF LIT	[100]	2015-07-09
Rhode Island Comic Con	Providence, Rhode Island	United States	General	[101]	2018-11-02
Sci-Fi Valley Con	Altoona, Pennsylvania	United States	SF/F/Horror	[102]	2017-06-09
Sci-Fi on the Rock	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada	General	[103]	2015-04-24
SFContario	Toronto, Ontario	Canada	General	[104]	2018-11-16
SFeraKon	Zagreb	Croatia	SF/F	[105]	2015-05-15
ShadowCon	Memphis, Tennessee	United States	SCA	[106]	2015-01-09
Soonercon	Norman, Oklahoma	United States	General	[107]	2019-06-07
SpoCon	Spokane, Washington	United States	General	[108]	2018-08-10
Star Wars Celebration	Chicago, Illinois	United States	Star Wars	[109]	2019-04-11
Starbase Indy	Indianapolis, Indiana	United States	Star Trek	[110]	2018-11-23
STARFLEET International Conference	Niagara Falls, New York	United States	Star Trek	[111]	2015-08-21
Starfury Conventions	London / Birmingham, England	UK	SF/General	[112]	Various
Stellarcon	Greensboro, North Carolina	United States	SF/F		2013-03-01
SwanCon	Perth, Western Australia	Australia	SF/F	[113]	2015-04-02
Swecon	Various	Sweden	SF/F	[114]	2015-08-07
TimeGate	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	Doctor Who	[115]	2015-05-22
Treklanta	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	SF/Star Trek	[116]	2016-04-15
Trinoc*coN	Durham, North Carolina	United States	General	[117]	2009-07-03
TusCon	Tucson, Arizona	United States	SF/F/H	[118]	2015-10-30
UnCommonCon	Dallas, Texas	United States	SF/F		2000-11-24
Unicon	Maryland	United States	General		1989-07-16
VCON	Lower Mainland, British Columbia	Canada	SF/F	[119]	2018-10-05
Vericon	Cambridge, Massachusetts	United States	General	[120]	2014-03-21
Visions	Rosemont, Illinois	United States	Doctor Who	[121]	1998-11-29
Wales Comic Con	Wrexham, Wales	UK	General	[122]	2015-04-26
Westercon	varies	United States	SF/F	[123]	2018-07-04
WillyCon	Wayne, Nebraska	United States	General	[124]	2017-03-31
Windycon	Lombard, Illinois	United States	General	[125]	2017-11-11
WisCon	Madison, Wisconsin	United States	General	[126]	2018-05-25
Wizard World	Various	United States	Media	[127]	Various
WonderCon	Los Angeles, California	United States	SF/F	[128]	2018-03-23
World Fantasy Convention	Various	Various	Fantasy	[129]	2019-10-31
Worldcon	Various	Various	SF/General	[130]	2019-08-15

Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry writing career

Lowry began her career as a freelance journalist. In the 1970s, she submitted a short story to Redbook magazine, which was intended for adult audiences but written from a child's perspective.^[1] An editor at Houghton Mifflin then suggested to Lowry that she write a children's book.^[1] Lowry agreed and wrote A Summer to Die which Houghton Mifflin published in 1977 when she was 40 years old. The book has themes of terminal illness, based on Lowry's own experiences with her sister Helen.^[1] Lowry continued to write about difficult topics in her next publication, Autumn Street (1979), which explores themes of coping with racism, grief, and fear at a young age.^[1] The novel is told from the perspective of a young girl who is sent to live with her grandfather during World War II, based on by Lowry's own experiences during the war.^[2] The same year she published Autumn Street, Lowry also published her novel Anastasia Krupnik, the first installment in the Anastasia series.^[2] The series continued until 1995.

Lowry's work Number the Stars was published in 1989, and received multiple awards, including the 1990 Newbery medal.^[3] Lowry received the Newbery medal again in 1994, for The Giver (1993).^[3] After writing The Giver, she published two companion novels which take place in the same universe: Gathering Blue (2000) and Messenger (2004). In 2012, she published Son, which tied all three of the previous books together. As a set, they are considered The Giver Quartet.^[2]

Critical reception

In her works, Lowry has explored such complex issues as racism, terminal illness, murder, the Holocaust, and the questioning of authority, among other challenging topics. Her writing on such matters has brought her both praise and criticism. In particular, The Giver (the first novel in the Quartet) has been met with a diversity of reactions from schools in America since its release in 1993; some schools have adopted it as a part of the mandatory curriculum, while others have prohibited the book's inclusion in classroom studies.^{[citation needed]}

References

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[Foot01-1] Miller (2005), The Sun, Oxford, p. 23. But Miller points out that the Sun is not as large as some other stars.

[Foot02-2] The Moon goes by other names, such as Selena - see, for example Jones (2005), The Solar System, MacMillan, p. 623.

[Foot03-3] Brown (2006), The Moon, Penguin, p. 46. Historically the Moon was not always considered to be large, see, for example Peterson (2005), Astronomy, MacMillan, p. 623.

[Foot04-4] Smith (2005), The Universe, Random House, p. 334.

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