...-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing ... ...ance. This book germinated from seeds planted in the 1930s when a junior high print shop class introduced me to Gutenberg‘s invention. There, the ―... ...y prompted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping hi... ...pted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping historie... ...nd the Epilogue. 2 A high school student—recalling my mention of Aquatic Apes the previous week—... ...ic Information Technologies—paper and print—were lifting China toward new heights. Insects had kept paper a secret from our ancestors for about a... ...ose factors, it‘s difficult to imagine Europe‘s Renaissance rising to the heights it reached. The InfoTech trail detours to northeast Asia Ahead... ...as a grandson able and powerful enough to take that empire to even greater heights. Only twelve in 1927 when his grandfather died, by 1259 Kublai ... ...n just three years. While Kemeny worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, his boss for a year was Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, who ha...

...et to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ever-Illiterate tribes of nom...

...-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing ... ...ance. This book germinated from seeds planted in the 1930s when a junior high print shop class introduced me to Gutenberg‘s invention. There, the ... ...y prompted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping hist... ...pted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping histories,... ...nd the Epilogue. 2 A high school student—recalling my mention of Aquatic Apes the previous week—... ...ic Information Technologies—paper and print—were lifting China toward new heights. Insects had kept paper a secret from our ancestors for about a m... ...ose factors, it‘s difficult to imagine Europe‘s Renaissance rising to the heights it reached. The InfoTech trail detours to northeast Asia Ahead l... ...s a grandson able and powerful enough to take that empire to even greater heights. Only twelve in 1927 when his grandfather died, by 1259 Kublai Kh... ... in just three years. While Kemeny worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, his boss for a year was Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, who ha...

...ly, of the two kinds there are, I only know that which is holy, noble, and high-minded; and if that be so, as it is, I am not likely to attack a pries... ...ured him that the man was still mad, and that though he often spoke like a highly intelligent person, he would in the end break out into nonsense that... ...he Christian in his, have taken care to set before us your gallantry, your high courage in encounter- ing dangers, your fortitude in adversity, your p... ...emember that Sanchico is now full fifteen, and it is right he should go to school, if his uncle the abbot has a mind to have him trained for the Churc... ...n poet says, that— It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below.” 41 Cer... ...on Carrasco, the perpetual joy and delight of the courts of the Salamancan schools, sound in body, discreet, patient under heat or cold, hunger or thi... ...et us go on.” So he said to him, “Your worship has apparently attended the schools; what sciences have you studied?” “That of knight-errantry,” said D... ...man of my town, a very rich one, and one of quality, for he was one of the Alamos of Medina del Campo, and married to Dona Mencia de Quinones, the dau...

...e bed-head, and those notable examples of hostelry art, Helen going off in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower dropping tears as big as... ... he may have been, it is clear that he was one of the dramatists of Lope’s school, for he has the impudence to charge Cervantes with attacking him as ... ...rsity merely by virtue of their own buoyancy; it was in the fortitude of a high spirit that he was proof against it. It is impossible to conceive Cerv... ...is something in it for every sort of reader, young or old, sage or simple, high or low. As Cervantes himself says with a touch of pride, “It is thumbe... ...perly speaking, never think about themselves at all, unlike our latter-day school of humourists, who seem to have revived the old horse-collar method,... ...aper, in a good hand, at the first village thou comest to where there is a schoolmaster, or if not, any sacristan will copy it; but see thou give it n... ...t Dulcinea Del Toboso. Adventure-seeking doth he go Up rugged heights, down rocky valleys, But hill or dale, or high or low, Mishap atte... ...n poet says, that— It is by rugged paths like these they go That scale the heights of immortality, Unreached by those that falter here below.” “Woe is... ...man of my town, a very rich one, and one of quality, for he was one of the Alamos of Medina del Campo, and married to Dona Mencia de Quinones, the dau...

...res, J. 0. Hirschfelder, J. L. Magee, M. Hull, and S. T. Cohen, of the Los Alamos Laboratory, for their data on nuclear explosions, Lieut. Col. David ... ...ust 6th, 1945, at 8:15 A.M., Japanese time, a B- 29 heavy bomber flying at high altitude dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. More than 4 squar... ...al area of the city; these fires soon combined in an immense “fire storm” (high winds blowing inwards toward the center of a large conflagration) simi... ...one more damage from any alternative bursting point in either city. 7. The heights of burst were correctly chosen having re- gard to the type of destr... ...c Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki C. The selected targets should have a high military strate- gic value. D. The first target should be relatively u... ...tsubishi Steel and Arms Works and six bombs landed at the Nagasaki Medical School and Hospital, with three direct hits on buildings there. While the d... ...eated considerable concern in Nagasaki and a number of people, principally school children, were evacuated to rural areas for safety, thus reducing th... ...i Ordnance Works (Torpedo Works), and numerous factories, factory training schools, and other industrial establishments, with a minimum destruction of...

...8 The Ox Tamer...................................410 An Old Man’s Thought of School......411 Leaves of Grass –Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn.............. ... eidolon. The old, old urge, Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles, From science and the modern still impell’d, The ol... ...Whitman 16 The prophet and the bard, Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet, Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret y... ...hose head is over all, Resolute warlike One including and over all, (However high the head of any else that head is over all.) Leaves of Grass –Whitm... ...4 Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth, (I tell not the fall of Alamo, Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred and fifty a... ...one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,) ’Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twe... ...rivately stays with me in the open air. If you would understand me go to the heights or water shore, The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or... ...lood tide, Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east, Others will see the islands la... ... The flowing sea currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white shore steamers, the l...

...after- wards, and regarded him as a man of great purity of charac- ter, of high moral and physical courage, but a fanatic and extremist in whatever he... ...atever learning they obtained. I have often heard him say that his time at school was limited to six months, when he was very young, too young, indeed... ... a great admirer of Henry Clay, and never voted for any other democrat for high office after Jackson. My mother’s family lived in Montgomery County, P... ...B C’s up to the young lady of eighteen and the boy of twenty, studying the highest branches taught—the three R’s, “Reading, ‘Riting, ‘Rithmetic.” I ne... ... himself a few years before, when he executed the en- tire garrison of the Alamo and the villagers of Goliad. In taking military possession of T exas ... ...een killed or driven away. This, with the massacre of the prisoners in the Alamo, San Antonio, about the same time, more than three hundred men in all... ...the upper or western end of the city under the fire of the guns from these heights. The lower or eastern end was defended by two or three small detach... ...reached a defensible position just out of range of the enemy’s guns on the heights north-west of the city, and bivouacked for the night. The engineer ... ...heavy loss. He turned from his new position and captured the forts on both heights in that quarter. This gave him possession of the up- per or west en...

...hen the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence... ...osperity, has mer ited the gratitude of his fellow citizens, commanded the highest praises of foreign nations, and secured im mortal glory with pos... ...ience and letters and a wish to patronize every rational effort to encourage schools, colleges, universities, academies, and every institution for pro... ...so often hazarded my all and never been de ceived; if elevated ideas of the high destinies of this country and of my own duties toward it, founded on... ...mprove the organization and discipline of the Army; to provide and sustain a school of military science; to ex tend equal protection to all the great... ...tion of efficiency, and in furtherance of that object the military and naval schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the speci... ... tional liberty and maintained opportunity, we invite the world to the same heights. But pride in things wrought is no reflex of a completed task. Co... ...in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The grea... ...rkened halls, and ponders his struggle to preserve the Union; the men of the Alamo call out encouragement to each other; a set tler pushes west and s...

...arth with the moccasoned tread of an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir. The murmurs of many a fa... ...plore at their invitation the interior of continents. They are the natural highways of all nations, not only levelling the ground and removing obstacl... ...richer crop than all. Let me believe a dream so dear, Some heart beat high that day, Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; ... ...ators of the earth, and lived under an organized political government. The school house stood with a meek aspect, entreating a long truce to war and s... ...n him out of his wits. I fancy that some indefatigable spinster of the old school, who had the supreme felicity to be born in “days that tried men’s s... ... tried men’s souls,” hearing this, may say with Nestor, another of the old school, “But you are younger than I. For time was when I conversed with gre... ...bright moon Appear beautiful, and the air is without wind; And all the heights, and the extreme summits, And the wooded sides of the mountains a... ...e world with looks.” The ready writer seizes the pen, and shouts, Forward! Alamo and Fanning! and after rolls the tide of war. The very walls and fenc... ...een baggage train carried pontoons for my convenience, and while from the heights I scan the tempting but unexplored Pacific Ocean of Futurity, the s...