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THE FALL OF OAKENFIELD UNIVERSITY

Part 7 of 7

by

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

8945 words

© 2020 by Glen Ten-Eyck

Writing begun 06/03/17

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Sprinting, she found the reserves arrayed to defend the Mathemagic Building!  She ordered, “Abandon this post!  We are needed to defend the library!”

One ventured, “Professor Greenleaf said that this was a vital defensive post.”

Sande retorted, “He was thrown from the army for exactly this kind of mistake!  We are needed where the fighting is, and that is the library!”

She led them dashing back to the combat!  The sheer numbers of the Know Nothing herd had pushed the defenders back dangerously close to the building! Sande and the reserves arrived just in time to push back a group of Know Nothing archers!  The range was long, but they had launched a flight of fire arrows before Sande’s troops cut them down!  About half escaped, fleeing deeper into the University!

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As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

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https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

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Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force:

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you....

- General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces

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0000 Normandy Coast

0005 Over the English Channel

0016 Caen Canal Bridge

0048 DZ A

0635 Bloody Omaha

0710 Pointe Du Hoc

0812 Nan White, Juno Beach

0900 Ouistreham

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D-Day

June 6, 1944

0812

- Nan White, Juno Beach -

The tide had already risen. Getting off of the landing craft, they troops had to wade through the water under machine gun, mortar, and artillery fire. As the soldiers disembarked, some of them began to fall, victims of the resistance next directly in front of them. The regiment knew that they needed to move quick and push forward to capture the German position or else they would be massacred on the coast.