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Compelling Lessons of History

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Compelling Lessons of History

The tagline, Compelling Lessons of History, contains five book projects.

  1. Compelling Sense

  2. Compelling Cuteness

  3. Compelling Maps

  4. Compelling Earth

  5. Pittsburgh's Parks, Recreation and Pools -- a position paper
    6. Version 1

History of These Titles

These living documents began to flow onto the web in 2000 as Mark Rauterkus campaigned for Mayor, City of Pittsburgh.

The introduction to Compelling Sense appeared as a four-sided photocopied handout provided at 50 or more events within the City of Pittsburgh in 2000-2001.

Some additional chapters were posted at Rauterkus.Com. Some chapters were were put online and the removed. Others sections were never disclosed.

A prior goal was to releasing these books in the summer of 2001, after winning the primary and before the general election. After the GOP Primary on May 15, 2001, Compelling Sense became a low-priority vs webmastering Carmine2001.Com.

The most recent work, Pittsburgh's Parks, Recreation and Poos -- a position paper, is slated for a release date of April 18, 2004.

Construction

Paine wrote, in part:
 Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Leon Brooks, posted in public on a school list:
Those who sincerely desire truth will not be reluctant to lay open their positions for investigation and criticism, and will not be annoyed if their opinions and ideas are crossed.

XML

An Open Office XML book is posted here, for internal reading and use.

click to:

Compelling Sense | Compelling Cuteness | Compelling Maps | Compelling Earth

and the newest offering,

Pittsburgh's Parks, Recreation, Pools -- a position paper

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