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Christmas in Caledon!
November 23, 2007 by primperfect
Christmas is a-coming - and Prim Perfect is preparing to help you celebrate with a bumper edition due out on December 15th, and packed with goodies, prizes and competitions - as well as places to go and events to attend over the holiday season!
And the exciting news is that our Sim of the Month is going to be … well, rather a lot of sims, actually, as we shall be celebrating Christmas in the lovely 19th Century steampunkVictorian Independent Republic of Caledon.
The Caledon sims are one of the longest established groups of roleplaying sims with a coherent identity. Their style, elegance and friendliness are all famed across the grid, a lot of it down to the man they call the Guvnah, Desmond Shang, whose vision has created, fuelled and driven Caledon.
It’s also notoriously difficult to buy land on Caledon - and there’s a long waiting list for new residents, so popular are the sims. So that makes it all the more exciting that this month’s competition is to win a home on the exciting new sim of Caledon Morgaine - so new that it doesn’t even appear yet on the map!
As always, the star competition in the magazine carries a month’s free rental of this exciting home - but there’s more too! The Guvnah has said that, if the winner of the competition wishes too, after the month is over, she or he will be able to remain in their new home, simply paying tier. That is truly a memorable star prize!
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Over the next few days, we’ll be telling you about some of the goodies we have lined up for you for Christmas - but to start, there’s an opportunity to win a prize from the Prim Perfect treasure cupboard (and publication) for the best Christmas poem and short story we receive before December 6th. There will be two categories - one for stories and poems related to Caledon - and one for the rest of the grid!
So get writing - and send your entries to primperfect@gmail.com byDecember 6th 2007.
posted with permission from the Prim Perfect Blog
The collecting policies of the Caledon Library have two main foci: the 19th century and Caledon's defining literary genres, Steampunk and Alternate History. Within these areas, we collect, first of all, primary source material: 19th-century novels, nonfiction works, and periodicals, along with materials from earlier eras considered important in the 19th century; and of course defining works in Steampunk and its parent genres. Second, we collect research materials concerning the world of the 19th century and its imagination, and secondary materials useful for studying Caledon's important genres.
This site draws its name from the Chivalric Order of the Duchy of Caledon Primverness. The order was founded by the Duchess of Primverness, who is also the head of The House of Wu, the Library's main source of support. Members of the Order take vows of Literacy, Obstinacy, and Bibliomancy.*
The Independent State of Caledon is located in the virtual world of Second Life.
*For the Order's purposes, Bibliomancy is defined as Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.
Caledon Library Branches and Locations
The Jack and Elaine Whitehorn Memorial Library , Caledon Victoria City
Main Library, General Collections, Exhibits
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
The Caledon Library Reading Room in Caledon Victoria City: Reference Collection, Periodicals, Recent Acquisitions
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
The Vannevar Bush Reading Garden, Caledon prime. Inter-Library Loan Catapult, & a book of verses beneath a shady bough
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
The Marie Curie Memorial Branch Library : Science, Technology, Poetry, and the Precursor Literature of the Steampunk genre
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
HG Wells Memorial Branch Library, Caledon Wellsian. "The Art of Going" Real and Imaginary voyages
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Tinyville Library, Tinyville, Caledon Tanglewood: 19th century Children's literature and Literature of the Fantastic
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Caledon Welcome Centre, sponsored by the Caledon Library - Caledon National Materials, Reference Collection, Caledon Groups
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Steampunk and Airships Dirigible: Steampunk Reference collection, Proto-Steampunk FIction from the 19th c; Sumie Kawashima Memorial Airship Collection of 19th & early 20th century works on Airships
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Gerturude Jekyll Library Collection - Works on 19th century Gardening
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Caledon Library at Oxbridge: Caledon Materials, Oxbridge Materials, Public School Novels.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/196/82/26
Caledon Library, Downtown Victoria City - Exhibits and events
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
The H.P. Blavatsky Memorial Branch Library at Adocentyn Tower, Caledon Wellsian: 19th c Spiritualism and related materials
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
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