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Greetings 
You have just arrived at C. D. Hoit's web site in beautiful downtown Academy, Texas USA. If you have comments or find links that do not work, we would appreciate your
. Enjoy your visit, and have an interesting day!
President
George W. Bush
Updated April 8, 2001 ~ See the new page for the Gearjammer!
QUOTE OF THE CENTURY (maybe the Millenium):
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
~PEOPLE and Other Living Things~
C. D. Hoit A profile of this site's principal character, in "The NEWSpaper."
DJ ~ Spouse
of the house. "Strictly Unofficial DJ Page".
Family John, David, Nora, Randy, Daniel, Charlotte and Tony Maurer. Other family members' links too, like Carl Madsen. Check it out! PLUS, pictures of family members who don't have web sites, such as DJ's family, and more to come, no doubt! ;-) Take a look at the newest family member to have a web page: Brian~The Gearjammer!
Genealogy Relating to the Hoit family and relatives. Interesting stories and pictures about really old ancestors dating back to 1628 and before. Our ancestors ARE alive in our minds. They have much to teach us.
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Howard E. Hoit (1900-1992) ~ A Sage for All Seasons. Printer, engraver, writer, craftsman, inventor, collector, weather observer. |
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Paws a moment~ Misty's very own Purrfect kitty page ~ orange tabby that runs CDH's computer room, and (in spite of DJ), tries to influence the rest of the house. Crazy kitty running around: HyperCat ~ just insisted on showing off.^. .^ ~~ |
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DJ's Domino . . . the latest addition
to the household. Black and white female kitty, whose motto is: |
Eagles ~v~- Pictures of high flyers. ~ Some pictures compliments of Carl Madsen, who also supplied a great Eagle link.
DISCUSSION
GROUPS
Here's a section devoted to Discussion Groups. Check these
out....might be something of interest to you:
First up, a list devoted to Time Travel . . .
~GOVERNMENT~ 
~ Basic access to government
information.
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The White House ~ Actually, you cannot contact The White House (it's just a building, bricks, mortar, glass, things like that) ... however, you will be able to contact the White House Computer which is allegedly operated by real live people. |
The President ~ George Walker
Bush with First Lady Laura. See White House link for more information about the U.S. 43rd
President and the First Lady.
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Election 2000 ~ Many links to the campaign.
FBI etc. ~ Big Brother IS watching you. Be informed!
IRS ~ Internal Revenue Service . . . There is a new "friendly help" section available. Read and absorb on its own merit.
~ An incredible amount of information.
Nov. 11 ~ Veteran's Day. Vietnam Veterans Memorial web site, featuring 58,196 names on the wall. A traveling version appeared in about 45 U.S. cities in 1999, and was in Central Texas in early December 2000.
United
Nations ~ Here's the link, if not the solution.
Political Humor ~ Thanks for the contributions! Updated Dec. 10, 2000 ~ special art connected with inDecision 2000. Projection for Four Years Later !
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Political commentary ~ Link to a Rush Limbaugh Featured Site, dedicated to ideas that personify the thinking of like-minded Americans. |
~PLACES~
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Texas ~ It's a whole 'nother attitude, not just a place. Y'all don't have to be born in Texas to be a Texan, no matter what the "good ole boys" say. |
Your State ~ Look up YOUR state's home page, flag, related data.
Academy ~ Bees, School, Town: One of the two best little towns in the state of Texas (the other one is Little River). Updated (a little) on 31Aug2000. More to come~maybe even THIS year :)
St. David's Cathedral ~ Dyfed, Wales. A great historic shrine of Christendom.
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Austria <Österreich> The flags you see flying here are the EU flag (blue) and the Austrian flag (red and white). Take a virtual trip; enjoy sights and sounds. Mostly in English. |
New Zealand ~ Some beautiful pictures, a Maori Legend, and the words in Maori and English to one of their more famous songs.
Canada ~ Maps, data, national hymn "O Canada" including sheet music.
Hubble Heritage ~ Photos from the Hubble collection of more than 130,000 space views. New pictures posted frequently. Enjoy!
| Space ~ The Final Frontier, or, where no one has gone before. Several links, including one on Space Station MIR. In addition, go to the Space page to see more on the following . . . |  |
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Time ~ Not the magazine . . . Clocks, GMT, things like that. |
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In case the above clocks are not quite right, this new one has been supplied by JCH who claims it to be accurate (at least once or twice every minute). |
Weather ~ Local ~ National ~
Worldwide 
Ecology ~ Tree huggers, tree sitters, darter savers, darn dam builders, no telling what will appear on this page. Any suggestions?
~ An examination of cycles in
American History.
Davyd's Demesne ~ Please enter with an open mind for a variety of beliefs ~ Many interesting links. Shamanism, Druidism, King Arthur, Space, SpiritWeb, Castles (real and not so); Weirdo Rogue's Gallery; Check the Magick page for a special National Geographic link to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
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The Brass Turtle ~ Channeling, Accessing, Articulation. New updates, Chat Room, Bulletin Board. |
Time Travel ~ (Link to be updated when the author gets back ... Any "Time" now :) An interesting, informative and scientific article by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. Read and consider, but be sure to come back in time to view the rest of this site.
Magick River ~ Antares' site from Malaysia. Worth the trip for wondrous views, photographic and personal.
Scribbles ~ A site from New Zealand.....interesting writings.
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Anarchist's Club ~ |
~IMAGES & ART: Words, Visuals, Sounds~
Go to The Wordsmith page for the link
to the Old West's most famous newspaper ~ PLUS: Writing, languages, word games, puns,
funny definitions, resume. Quotes. Guide to Braille... the
"dots" illustrated. Latest Update: June 1,
2000
World News: A special page, plus the 7 am news ticker.
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Photos ~ Gallery of photos by the page's author and others of note. |
Paintings
~ Oils, acrylics, drawings: by C. D. Hoit, Clara Phelps Hoit,
George Willis Hoit, others, later: links to the old masters and other artistic sites. A
NEW site is under construction, featuring paintings of Clara Phelps Hoit, who painted from
1920 for nearly three-quarters of a century. Anyone having copies of her paintings, please
contact this web site owner, and send GIFs if possible.
Figlets, Smileys, ASCII Art ~ Figlets: computer generated words, ASCII: those little faces :-) you see here and there, sometimes called Emoticons.
Humor
~ Jokes, funny pix, contributions welcome . . . please give sources: we
like to give credit (or blame, as the case may be) to originators. Best known source is
that great writer Anne Onymousse (aka Anon).
Thanksgiving ~ Turkeys
are always with us! Did you know that the FIRST Thanksgiving was in Texas? Go to TEXAS THANKSGIVING
Music for You ~ Members of the family have all been involved in music. Any talented family member wishing to provide some computer-generated material?
MISCELLANEA
Miscellaneous ~ All that whereof there is no other category (yet)
~ Comments and ideas welcome, but be nice! Oh,
alright, tell me what you REALLY think. This is our attempt at overwhelming
the masses, and if you have any further means of obfuscation or elucidation, please eschew
ennui, and write!
Hot Sheet ~ Search engines, news, finance, sports, recreation, games, travel, humor, reference, culture, showbiz, tv, software, living, web help, music, more. Not enough for you? YOU need help!
Thanks to all for your interest!
Regarding questions about this site and it's operational elements ~ This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer (especially for music and background sounds) ~ originally designed for Netscape Navigator (Version 4.1+). So choose whichever browser works for you. Many elements of this site created through the use of FrontPage. Support and access to this site provided by the nice folks at VVM. And last but not least, many thanks to our favorite PC 'Puter Guru, JCH, for ongoing assistance in the computer world.
Vice-President ~ Dick Cheney ~ Wife
Lynne. See White House link above for more info.
