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ESS Retirements

It is always bittersweet when a colleague retires. On the one hand, it is a terrible loss to the profession, and on the other we applaud their contributions and wish them much joy! This Newsletter issue has tributes to three long-time members of the ESS community : Dick Hacken, Sarah How and Rebecca Malek-Wiley. We thank them for their years of service; are grateful for the generosity of time, energy & effort they have given us; celebrate their many achievements; and send them off to new adventures with a resounding cheer.

Click the pictures to read the lovely tributes to our retiring members! Dick Hacken. Sarah How. Rebecca Malek-Wiley.

Feature Articles

Humor

Amusing Book titles
by André Wenzel

• Dell’andare in bicicletta e altre divagazioni : antologia per ciclisti e sognatori
• Il dentista : delitti alle sette chiese
• Fe-lines : French Cat Poems Through the Ages
• Libido des Martiens
• Mytunes : come salvare il mondo, una canzone alla volta
• Oi ?
• Shakespeare és Cervantes : Joan Miguel Sirvent, l’escritor emmascarat
• O tempo da geração espontãna
• Venise n’est pas en Italie
• Venusiana entre Terrícolas
• X

European Books and Authors You Will Never See in Print
by Prof. Jemapelle

• Cuisine
  • Grieg Katumí: A Feta Accompli
  • Grieg Katumí: Moussaka to Me
  • Ruth Palat-Schinken: Crepes of Ruth.
  • Dahlia Telli and Dorda Lini: Never Met a Carb I Didn’t Like
• How-To Books
  • I.M. Avisa-Garth: The Trick to Turning Tight Corners while Hanging Underneath a Galloping Horse
  • M.T. Bägg: How to Sack Rome: Paper or Plastic?
• Literature
  • Don T. Allegory: Define “Comedy”
  • Cookie D. Hogg: Hamlet
  • J. Wolfpack Gerty: The Tragedie of Foist: A Pact with Meta-Strophes
  • Nikolai Google: The Schnozz
  • Warren Peese: Count Troll’s Toys
  • Hayley-Ann A. Tidd: Othering the “Stranger”
  • Madame de Steel: Ironing Napoleon’s Shorts… While He’s Still in Them
• Mathematics
  • Tumin E. Ledderz: Relativdiagrammordinatenmaßstabsumrechnungsfaktorenverhältnisse
• Politics
  • Waden D. Hofburg: An Index to Frustrating Austro-Hungarian Bureaucracies
  • Hugh Crane and Hugh Givínn: The Art of Putin’s Diplomacy
• Travel
  • Clementine Andropov: Guide to the Eiffel Tower
  • Bertie Gogh: How Much Does the Matterhorn Matter?
  • Rett Rowe-Tripp: When Pushkin Comes to Shuvkin
  • Wanda Trudy West: The Occidental Tourist

• Zoology
  • Don Keye-Hooty: DNA Similarities of Jackasses and Owls

Brigadoon History and Culture: The Top-Twelve Titles
by Yudó Piha, Professor of Brigadoon Studies, University of Avalon at Excalibur

• The Founding of Brigadoon, by Caché d’Albion and Nadda Scott
• Historical Geography of Doone, by Natawna Jeepy-Hess 
• Highlights of the Brigadensian Renaissance, by May B. N. A. Zênjuri
• Intraportal Military Strategies by Donek Szïst and Y. Skermiche
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Bolton D. Pourtale-Schutt
• Social History of Immigration, by Luke A. Ghinn and Nottfer D. Laikza-Yu
• The Lucky Few, by Truelove Tai-Ming
• The Gene Kelly Era, by Justin A. Myuzikul
• Brigadoon and Schmigadoon in NATO? by Tryan Fine-Dussatoll
• The Rise and Fall of Brigadoon University, by P.H.D. Durth
• Brigadensian and Avalonian Foreign Relations, by Ms. Tique and Allie 
• Gohrick
• Domestic Baking: Breads and Shortbreads, by Lorna Doone