The Astrolabe

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="04f085a3.jpg"> <div> <B>The Astrolabe</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=225 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="050d2e83.jpg"> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61iflan.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Nove"><U><B><IMG SRC="0da766e0.png" border=0 width="118" height="110" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." </B></div> <div> <B>-John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.</B></div> <div> <B>-Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957) </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. </B></div> <div> <B>-James McNeill Whistler, painter (1834-1903)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. </B></div> <div> <B>-Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. </B></div> <div> <B>-Johann Gottfried Von Herder, critic and poet (1744-1803)</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="05107073.jpg"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="647" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 314 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="http://www.hubblesite.org/gallery/showcase/text.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hubblesite.org/gallery/showca"><U><IMG SRC="0528e340.jpg" border=0 width="654" height="308" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Welcome to The <A HREF="http://astrolabes.org/mariner.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://astrolabes.org/mariner.htm"><U>Astrolabe</U></A>!</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="161" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="155"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="155" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="teacher.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meet Your Teacher"><U>Meet  Your Teacher</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vincennes University Classrooms"><U>Vincennes University Classrooms</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VUEnglish 101"><U>VU-English 101</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VUEnglish 102"><U>VU-English 102</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VUSpeech 143"><U>VU-Speech 143</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VUSpeech 148"><U>VU-Speech 148</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Presentations"><U>Presentations</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tips and Inspiration"><U>Tips and Inspiration</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="People"><U>People</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Electronic Pen: A Student Journal"><U>Electronic Pen: A Student Journal</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cafe Tertulia"><U>Cafe Tertulia</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Skylight Lounge"><U>Skylight Lounge</U></A><B>   </B></div> <div> <I><B>                                                  </B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>