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This page holds some of the best feedback, including some of the more
provocative sorts, that we received in 2003 - the fourth year of our
family website. We also have separate pages for the best comments that we've received
each year.
I just wanted to let you know that I stumbled on your marvelous
website as I was trying to finish my lecture for this weekend. I am a Ph.D.
candidate in the History of Science and Technology, from the University of
Minnesota. I currently am ABD and writing my thesis on the engineering
profession in Czechoslovakia, 1900-1950. (preliminary title Engineering a Modern
Nation: The Czech Engineering Profession and the building of an Independent
Czechoslovakia). I encountered a "Frantisek Munk" in the archival materials
in Prague, as somebody interested in economic planning, and a contact of
Vaclav Verunac. This weekend I am actually presenting a paper at the History
of Science Conference on the Americanization debate in Czechoslovakia 1920-1948.
I was looking for a picture of Alice Masaryk on the web, to put on an
overhead, and then got your website as one possibility on the Google list.
After a little while, I realized that your family member Frank Munk is Frantisek
Munk. I have read the posted autobiography with great interest. Thank you so
much for putting this up on a website!!!!
10/7/2003
Great photos. I was searching the net for photos of killer whales I could
use when I teach my students in Japan about Canadian animals. The name of my
school is Kaisei Elementary School, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan. I'm sure my
students will be impressed when the see the picture of Mother
and Baby IV. Thank you so much for providing such a wonderful
web site!!
5/24/2003
I was just visiting your website, and saw the section on sea otters. I believe
that the photo there is actually of a river otter.
River otters do frequent ocean areas, and are often mistaken for sea otters.
A few ways for you to differentiate between the species: river otters have
much longer tails and do not have large webbed hind flippers, as sea otters
do. When at the surface, river otters tend to swim on their front, and sea
otters float on their back. Sea otters tend to eat their food in the water
while floating on their backs, with the food on their stomach. River otters
would be more likely to climb on a log or onshore to eat, in the posture
captured in the photo on your site. Sea otters almost never leave the water,
whereas river otters are on land frequently. River otters tend to be all
brown, whereas adult sea otters' heads lighten throughout their lifetime,
becoming quite blond. The river otter also has a longer head than the sea
otter. In the Puget Sound area, river otters are much more common than sea otters.
[Note: We're glad that Sheryl has corrected us. Her work as the
rehabilitation coordinator at the Vancouver Aquarium certainly makes us
appreciative.]
4/23/2003
I came across your lovely killer whale photos today as I
was searching for an appropriate map for the Whale Watch Park to include on a
new page on our [Orca Relief Citizen's
Alliance] website to promote watching marine wildlife and especially
killer whales from shore. Did you take these photos from shore? If so, we would
very much like to use some of your photos for our website to show people that it
is possible to see these animals from shore without disturbing their
environment. Thank you very much for your help and for mentioning Orca Relief on
your website.
4/14/2003
Great site! I'll have to come back when it isn't two in
the morning! Anyway, my husband is a huge bald eagle enthusiast and he is going
to love your pictures. He has this crazy idea to print out some and put them in
a scrapbook to display in our home to visitors. I am curious about where you
guys are? I am thinking upper Washington or Alaska or somewhere in Canada near
the coast? Anyway, thanks for the great bald eagle photos and keep up the GREAT
work!
4/13/2003
While looking at the seagull pictures, I noticed that you had a picture you
had labeled Herons on rotting dock posts. The birds pictured are actually cormorants, a fish-eating
sea bird. At one time they were used by various natives as fishing tools. They
would tie long lines to the feet of the birds and put a hoop around the neck,
then let the birds go get fish. Since they couldn't swallow the fish, the
natives collected them and the cormorants just kept getting more.
[Note: We stand duly corrected and have changed the picture names
appropriately!]
3/23/2003
You may want to note that your photo of a "mountain goat" is actually a
young male bighorn sheep.
Totally different species!
[Note: Well, we're sheepish to admit it but we were just guessing
when we firs tput this up. We are really pleased
that someone could tell us what it was. Just happened we got advice from a
wildlife biologist in Alberta's fish and wildlife department.]
3/2/2003
Your pictures of the bald eagles are some of the best
we have found. My son was doing a report for school on eagles (he is in 1st
grade) and your pictures are every bit as good (if not better) than the ones we
have in our Wildlife Explorer volumes. Thank you!!
2/20/2003
Greetings: I found your web site while doing a
search of Henderson Leuelling. [Leuelling is mentioned in Ralph Geer's
chronicles of his trip across the Oregon Trail in 1847.] I thought you
might like to know that his trip on the Oregon Trail is chronicled in the book
"Tree Wagon" authored by his daughter Evelyn Sibley Lampman. Seeing as how Dr.
White all but abandoned them because of the heavy weight of his tree wagon, his
journey proved to be more difficult than it probably should have been if they
were with a larger party. While traveling up South Pass they came upon a group
of Indians who were impressed by the tree wagon. Later, while preparing to cross
the Snake, a war party came across the small party. After seeing the tree wagon
they all rode off only to come back a few hours later devoid of war paint and
proceeded to help the 4 wagons across the Snake. He came to find out the Indians
believed in the spirit of the trees and would do no harm to anyone traveling
with sacred trees. I thought that you might like this little bit of trivia. By
the way, very nice site.
2/11/2003
Thanks so much for posting Dr.
Munk's biography. I was a student of his at Portland State College during
the 1960's and was always impressed with his kind manner, wit, knowledge, and
after seeing him on television shoveling snow some time around 1991, his
longevity. He was a delightful and amazing gentleman.
1/12/2003
Hi. I was passing thru your wonderfull site and
I read Dr. Frank Munk's The Most Daring Cooperative
Experiment speech he made
before the Potomac Cooperative Federation in Washington, D.C., on February 27,
1945. I was born 44 years ago in the town that is mentioned in that speech (Domvrena,
Greece)
and I left 27 years ago. I remember the different stories the older folks use to
tell us about the destruction of the town by the Nazis. If you visit the site
www.cameraaction.net you will
find some recent photographs of the town the German Nazis burned and destroyed
58 years ago. Great work!!! Thanx.
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