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The links below lead to items beyond my profession that I have enjoyed
and wanted to share.
Essay On Star Wars Episode II and The Searchers. by M. Croft 
Essay On Star Wars Episode II and History. by M. Croft 
Essay On the Bernoulli effect and the New Brunswick to New York train ride. by M. Croft 
Essay  Galileo Galilei's Anagram.> 
Essay  On Aristotle, Newton and a 500 Pound Gorilla (Friction). by M. Croft 

Short story by W. Irving with an alternate ending by M. Croft. 
 "The Adventure of the German Student" by W. Irving with alternate ending by M. Croft. 

 Hike-pic-01.
 pic~70.

NEW-1--07
 Common Buckeye butterfly Oak Ridge Nat. Lab. TN

NEW-9-07 
 Eastern Tailed Blue butterfly Raritan Canal (near Rut. Prep>)
 Swallowtail butterfly Portugal
 Hackberry Emperor butterfly NJ
 Sierra-Blues Tahoe CA-Sierras 
 Sierra butterflies Tahoe CA 
 Fritillary butterfly in CT.png



NEW-5-8-06 
 Great Horned Owl Raritan Canal (near Rut. Prep>)
 Question Mark butterfly Raritan Canal (near Rut. Prep>)

NEW-8-27-05 
 Osprey eagle on Raritan (near Rut. Prep>)

NEW-5-23-05 
 Red-bellied woodpecker call with Prothonotary warbler in background
Prothonotary warbler at Raritan Canal behind Rutgers Prep.
 Prothonotary warbler mpg video.
 Prothonotary warbler
 Prothonotary warbler-nest

NEW-7-8-04 Butterflies
 Hummingnird Clearwing Moth
 Eastern Comma butterfly
 Red Admiral butterfly
 Red Admiral HP
 Red-spotted Purple Butterfly
 butterfly collection> 

NEW-6-22-04
 Baltimire Oriole & Nest
 Towhee's (East & West)
 Great Blue Heron (close-up)
 Cuckoo
 Misc. Canal Birds

NEW-9-5-03
 Common Yellowthroat Warbler
 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
 Red-spotted Purple Butterfly
 Dragon flies

NEW-4-7-03
 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Johnson Park Bird Snactuary
 Black Crown Night Heron- etc

NEW-3-25-03
 Hawk on nest Rutgers Ecological Reserve 3-25-03 
 Hawk on CAIP Building (Rutgers Busch Campus) 3-24-03 

NEW-11-02
 Peregrine Falcon in Highland Park
 Peregrine Falcon in Highland Park "action shot"
 Peregrine Falcon in Highland Park -3
 Cedar waxwing etc


NEW-5-5-02
 Scarlet Tanager along Canal
 Cormorant along Canal
 bird/nest along Canal
 bird/nest along Canal
 Red Admiral HP

NEW-4-18-02
 hawks and nest # 1 !!
 hawks and nest # 2 !!

 Europe Trip Map-01-02.
 Vesuvius/Pompeii-01-02.
 Vesuvius Crater-01-02.
 Vesuvius-01-02.
 Vesuvius & Modern Pompeii-01-02.
 Vesuvius/Pompeii-Link.
 Notre Dame-01-02.
 Notre Dame-01-02.
 Fontevraud Abbey & the Plantagenets 1
 Fontevraud Abbey & the Plantagenets 2
 Fontevraud Abbey & the Plantagenets 3
 Plantagenet and Capet Castle at Chinon

NEW-8-17-01
 A Titmouse mpg video.
 surface shock waves
 Muskrat.
 Baltimore Orioles

NEW-5-1-01 west coast pictures
 best of the west
 California 
 finches
 hummming birds - green
 humming birds yellow in light 
 humming birds red- head
 quails
 red bellied sapsucker
 Washington

NEW-3-5-01
 A warbler near the Canal
 Merganzers in the Raritan
 Downey WP and GB Heron on Raritan

NEW-2-26-01
 A Flicker in Highland Park last year  
 A Flicker mpg video from HP last year
 A Flicker audio from HP last year

NEW-2-19-01
 Hawk in Central Park (CP) perched next to the Reservoir (on the N. side)- 2-17-01 
 more pictures of this CP hawk 
 shot of where the hawk was perched in CP 
 Ducks in CP Reservoir 2-16-01 
 sparrows in CP 
 misc birds in CP 
 Canvas-back ducks in Hudson River near 80'th St 2-16-01 
 Nuthatch in Highland Park NJ> 


NEW-2-11-01
 hawk by canal path> 
 ducks on the Raritan> 
 shots from the bird sanctuary in J. Park> 
NEW-12-4-00
 sparrow> 
 titmouse> 
 "white" deer> 

OLD
 hawk outside physics dept.> 
 Bald Eagle from Maine> 
 birds & snakes along the Raritan Canal collection> 
 birds along the Raritan River & Canal> 
 Baltimore Orioles & King Fisher along the Raritan River & Canal>
 Great Blue Heron on telephone pole in Highland Park NJ> 
 More Herons along Ratitan> 
 ducks along the Raritan Canal collection> 
 birds11-5-00>
 birds along Canal>
 Wild Turkey etc. at Brookhaven Lab>
 bird around Highland Park> 
 flowers> 


 snakes along the Raritan River & Canal> 
 A video of a snake in the Raritan River.> 

 butterfly collection> 
 dragon fly and 4 in. long bug> 

 crab in the Raritan River> 

 fluorescent minerals collection #0> 
 fluorescent minerals collection #1> 
 fluorescent minerals collection #2> 
 fluorescent minerals collection #3> 
 video of time decay of mineral fluorescence>