CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
"Mountains that reach to heaven are covered with eternal snows," from Songs of Near and Far Away, illustrated and written by Emmeline Richardson, 1900.
Even before the controversy of Google Maps' satellite imagery, some very famous addresses have been leaked to the general public. For example, here's "The residence of Mr. Heaven," from Picnic, an Illustrated Guide to Ilfracombe and North Devon, 1890.
"When will you name the day, the hour, the minute of our astral junction?" From In the Green Park; or, Half-Pay Deities by F. Norreys Connell and illustrated by F. H. Townsend, 1894.