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... Benz. The Duryea brothers - Charles Edgar and James Frank - were technological pioneers. They invented the first commercial American automobile... ... Jackson (1767-1845), the American President (1829-1837) was much ridiculed for his Bushisms (lack of grasp of the English language). He was - erron... ...incy Adams (1824), Rutherford Hayes (1876), Benjamin Harrison (1888) and George W. Bush (2000) lost the overall vote but won the presidency. ht...

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...d my happiness. I tasted the air. My brain rushed about, rebounded from a bush, crashed against rocks. Light was splintering around me; inside that ... ...Summer: Naked swimmers, five boys, penis fun, laughter: Naked girls in bushes along the same river bank: Church bells in distance: Behind a co... ...re of a shock coming from her: Hugh dead, big Hugh, with his cleft beard, bushy eyebrows, and mop of greying hair: the bigness of his Dunira castle ... ...to leave—called by the convent bell. I gave the youngest my carcanet: the bushes slid about us, our hands to- gether, the leaves cool, the cool strea... ...ed, kindly, wooing, mouth tasting of fruit: she peeled fruit taken from a bush and we ate together: she filled her calabash at the stream and left m... ... taught me to work but he never taught me to love drudgery. Some of those pioneers used to say: “Don’t see all you see; don’t hear all you hear.” T...

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...r phones. 1990s  Wireless networking, webcams, GPS, smart phones. The pioneers Many creative individuals laid blocks for the latest informati... ...en more technology-gifted or become better known to the public, these two pioneers remain my personal InfoTech heroes:  Vannevar Bush (not relate... ...blic, these two pioneers remain my personal InfoTech heroes:  Vannevar Bush (not related to the presidential family) (1890–1974)  John Kemeny (1... ...o the presidential family) (1890–1974)  John Kemeny (1926–92). Vannevar Bush envisioned a library in a desk Near the end of World War II, Bush bec... ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. By 1945, Bush had made an impressive mark in the world:  Co-founder of Raytheon ... ...haps of more significance, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called upon Bush during World War II to mobilize military, industrial, and academic sc... ...olving knowledge and coordinate wartime research efforts. In the 1930s, Bush focused on building an analog device he hoped would revolutionize com...

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...r phones. 1990s  Wireless networking, webcams, GPS, smart phones. The pioneers Many creative individuals laid blocks for the latest information ... ...en more technology-gifted or become better known to the public, these two pioneers remain my personal InfoTech heroes:  Vannevar Bush (not relate... ...blic, these two pioneers remain my personal InfoTech heroes:  Vannevar Bush (not related to the presidential family) (1890–1974)  John Kemeny (1... ...o the presidential family) (1890–1974)  John Kemeny (1926–92). Vannevar Bush envisioned a library in a desk Near the end of World War II, Bush bec... ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. By 1945, Bush had made an impressive mark in the world:  Co-founder of Raytheon ... ...haps of more significance, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called upon Bush during World War II to mobilize military, industrial, and academic sc... ...-solving knowledge and coordinate wartime research efforts. In the 1930s, Bush focused on building an analog device he hoped would revolutionize com...

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...Age tribes committed mass murder was to set fires to entire areas of grass or bush on fire, creating a maelstrom of burning death… and then going int... ... The incendiary heat of the ashes covering the ground and all the trees and bushes and plants would cause small areas to catch on fire, or just on... ...ave been curious about a baby flame not coming from a volcano, but from a dry bush or plant? Or could they have been puzzled how such a tiny flame ... ...them insights from ordinary places in Nature. They were visited by a burning bush in the desert that did not extinguish itself. They were visited ... ...then you are automatically addicted to power, just as a president like George Bush Jr. is addicted to power, to ease, to the power of being able to ... ...e elm tree and burning the scraps and branches of that one dead tree gave the pioneers enough potash to buy 2 more acres of land. Tempt land hungry ... ...m: killing everything they could en masse. These were the glorified fucking ‘pioneers’ the stealers of land from people who had lived there for thou... ...o be ignored and used, raped, destroyed, gaped-at, or by-passed. By American pioneers crossing an entire continent. Ignoring the thousands of miles... ...ment of taking three modern-day families and making them live as homesteading pioneers for only six short months in the PBS television Docu-drama: ‘P...

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...he story of how Ray Charles’s voice ended up in a mashup attacking President Bush, or the discussion of genetically engineered bacteria that take phot... ... people around the world, and to infuriate a large number of others. “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” Myers, the Post wrote, “now look[e... ...r it was up on their Web site: www.k-otix.com. 2 The song was called “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” (also referred to as “George Bush D... ...olice shot a black man trying to loot (Who!?) Don’t like black people George Bush don’t like black people George Bush don’t like black people This cha... ...Bush don’t like black people This chapter is the story of that song. “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” is the end (for the moment) of a li... ...nterprise will cause some of you to shudder. Professor Drew Endy, one of the pioneers in this field, believes that part of that reaction stems from sim...

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...ments are the leading investors in the projects. The financial brakes the Bush administration applied in the U.S. floored the accelerators of other a... ...of. In fact Lincoln usually ranks as our best leader. But then, George W. Bush, our worst leader, was also a minority president. Guess it just shows ... ...thing from the Soviet society. They built Young Pioneer Palaces. The Young Pioneers were the future of their society. They were something like the Bo...

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...s Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fe... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fe... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 James Fenimore Cooper THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fen... ...e as to the site of the tale. The history of this district of coun- 4 The Pioneers try, so far as it is connected with civilized men, is soon told. O... ... mountain, at a rate that announced a powerful team and a hard driver. The bushes which lined the highway interrupted the view, and the two sleighs we... ...R SLEIGH, drawn by four horses, was soon seen dashing through the leafless bushes which fringed the road. The leaders were of gray, and the pole-horse... ...d, and it was topped by a small bullet-head that exhib- ited on one side a bush of bristling brown hair and on the other a short, twinkling visage, th... ...ut fifteen, was, much like a wild colt, caught and trimmed by clipping his bushy locks; dressed in a suit of homespun, dyed in the butternut bark; fur... ...hard. “Who the devil do you think will dig for coal when, in hunting for a bushel. he would have to rip up more of trees than would keep him in fuel f...

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...The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a prosperous catt...

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...disease, exile, and death,—death skulking in the air, in the water, in the bush. They must have been dying like flies here. Oh yes—he did it. Did it v... ...shed. Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned. What became of the hens I don’t know eit... ...of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager-beer. How- ever, I wasn’t going ... ...ed off the coast. There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her... ... front all right. An afterwards I came upon the whole concern wrecked in a bush—man, hammock, groans, blankets, horrors. The heavy pole had skinned hi... ...that wrapper in the creek with great care, then spreading it solemnly on a bush to dry. “I slapped him on the back and shouted ‘We shall have rivets!’...

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...rt my face from these things. There, among some young pine trees and furze bushes, I stopped, panting, and waited further developments. The common rou... ...ed people or more standing in a great irregular circle, in ditches, behind bushes, behind gates and hedges, saying little to one another and that in s... ... of heat passed over them, pine trees burst into fire, and every dry furze bush became with one dull thud a mass of flames. And far away towards Knaph... ...inevitable sword of heat. I perceived it coming towards me by the flashing bushes it touched, and 21 H G Wells was too astounded and stupefied to sti... ...ve for that thin mast upon which their restless mirror wobbled. Patches of bush and isolated trees here and there smoked and glowed still, and the hou... ...was sud- denly noisy with the voices of an army of hawkers following these pioneers. Men came scrambling off buses to secure copies. Certainly this ne... ...us. The death of that one at Weybridge was an accident. And these are only pioneers. They kept on coming. These green stars—I’ve seen none these five ... ...ace the Martians have watched 154 The War of the Worlds the fate of these pioneers of theirs and learned their lesson, and that on the planet V enus ...

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...hat I saw some other and very grotesque-looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I saw nothing of these as we drew nearer. This m... ... minute. Then, stopping to look back once or twice, he slunk off among the bushes to the right of me, and I heard the swish of the fronds grow faint i... ...d away and thrust myself violently, possibly even frantically, through the bushes, anxious to get a clear space about me again. I stopped just in time... ... discovered, as a branch cracked or a leaf rustled, I pushed back into the bushes. It was long before I grew bolder, and dared to move freely. My only... ...through the green confusion. In another moment he had vanished behind some bushes. I could not see him, but I felt that he had stopped and was watchin... ...-flesh.” They were reverting, and reverting very rapidly. Some of them—the pioneers in this, I noticed with some surprise, were all females—began to d...

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...inity. He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly i... ...he fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frol icking from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and va... ... Sleepy Hollow, and was obliged to get up behind him; how they galloped over bush and brake, over hill and swamp, until they reached the bridge; when ... ...plunge to the opposite side of the road into a thicket of brambles and alder bushes. The school master now bestowed both whip and heel upon the starv...

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... vanishing; the smoke of fires stood upright above the masses of flowering bushes; bamboo fences glittered, running away in broken lines between the f... ...self. The darkness deepened fast; torches gleamed fitfully, passing behind bushes; a long hail or two trailed in the silence of the evening; and at la... ...eped fearfully round corners; young boys kept up with him, gliding between bushes: their eyes gleamed through the dark leaves. The old sword- bearer, ... ...ood in unstirring clumps, as if painted; the white smoke of some invisible bush-fire spread itself low over the shores of the bay like a settling fog.... ... house—a big house in a clearing in the midst of his fields; flow- ers and bushes grew around; there were narrow paths of yellow earth between the cut... ...try! My head is split.” Such profitable visits were rare. For days the two pioneers of trade and progress would look on their empty courtyard in the v...

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...nt more of these seed coats ruptured, and even as they did so the swelling pioneers overflowed their rent- distended seed-cases, and passed into the s... ... for want of breath. He made his way towards me, coming gingerly among the bushes. “We’ve got to be careful,” he said. “This moon has no dis- cipline.... ...d, without any alacrity to be- gin our hunt. “I wish this confounded spike bush did not grow so fast!” “That’s just it,” said Cavor. “But it was lying... ...sphere. But every- where was a confusing sameness, everywhere the aspiring bushes, the distending fungi, the dwindling snow banks, steadily and inevit... ... fantastic desert! T o the eye everything was unchanged: the desolation of bushes and cacti waving si- lently in the wind, stretched unbroken to the d... ...- gusting hogs!” and after one glare of angry envy crawled off through the bushes to our right. I stayed long enough to see that the speckled plant wa...

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...em were just then making a domiciliary visit at his house, he ran behind a bush; and as they came forth, two green bread-fruit from a hand unseen took... ...s, deplorably bigoted: such traits have, in some degree, characterized the pioneers of all faiths. And although in zeal and disinterestedness the miss... ...ou came upon them napping on the shady side of a canoe hauled up among the bushes; lying on a tree smoking; or, more fre- quently still, gambling with... ...ed to assure me that our retreat was not cut off. As we rounded a clump of bushes, a noise behind them, like the crackling of dry branches, broke the ... ... crept up to the very edge of the open ground, and knelt behind a clump of bushes; resting our levelled barrels among the branches. The slight rustlin... ...esolved to have another shot at all hazards. The Cockney darted among some bushes; and, a few mo- ments after, we heard the report of his musket, foll...

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...yes. It spread remoter and remoter, with only a few clusters of sere thorn bushes here and there, and the dim suggestions of some now waterless ravine... ...he long slope before them, and so came through a waste of prickly, twisted bushes and strange dry shapes of horny branches that grew amongst the rocks... ...per that came and went, the faintest inclination of a stiff black-antlered bush upon a little crest, the first inti- mations of a possible breeze. Idl... ..., with a still, de- liberate assurance. Right and left of the horsemen the pioneers of this strange army passed. At one that rolled along the ground, ... ...he came I was out of it all—going home to Banya along the coast, hiding in bushes by day, and thieving food from the villages by night. Only weapon, a... ...at temples at Paestum, at last, on a blank stony place dot- ted with spiky bushes, empty and desolate and so flat that a grove of eucalyptus far away ...

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...lly very considerable number of newspapers, tempted by the impunity of the pioneers in this direction, had pledged themselves to pay in some cases, qu... ...as left behind. He ducked back among the 170 The War in the Air trees and bushes until he felt secure from any after-thought on the part of the Zeppe... ... Chinese! Yellow chaps chasing ‘em!” At last he came to rest in a clump of bushes near a locked- up and deserted refreshment shed within view of the A... ...len body. “Oo-oo!” groaned Bert at every slash, and shrank closer into the bushes and became very still. Presently came a sound of shots from the town... ...ly a third of the Asiatic fleet had re-assembled. He watched them from his bush, cramped but immovable, watched them gather and range themselves and s... ... Sunday. If so, were they going to church or, were they hiding, perhaps in bushes? What had happened to the landlord, the butcher, and to Butteridge a...

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... the hedge-bot- toms, and in the cottage gardens of Willey Green, currant- bushes were breaking into leaf, and little flowers were com- ing white on t... ...hyard, Ursula sat down for a moment on the low stone wall under the laurel bushes, to rest. Behind her, the large red building of the school rose up p... ...down her work, she rose slowly, and slowly passed over the lawn, round the bushes, out of sight. ‘Who is it?’ asked Gudrun. ‘Mr Roddice—Miss Roddice’s... ...slightly deepened, guttural En- glish. They all waited. And then round the bushes came the tall form of Alexander Roddice, striding romantically like ... ...uch a thing, and had said so-and-so to the PM. Now Hermione came round the bushes with Gerald Crich. He had come along with Alexander. Gerald was pres... ...y felt that better times had come. They were grateful to those others, the pioneers, the new owners, who had opened out the pits, and let forth this s...

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.... “There are the three palm-trees. It must be in a line with that clump of bushes,” said his companion. “Mark that. If we, go to those bushes and then... ... companion. “Mark that. If we, go to those bushes and then strike into the bush in a straight line from here, we shall come to it when we come to the ... ...he water. “We shall have to scramble through this to the beach to find our bushes and get the line to the place,” said Evans. “We had better paddle ro... ...ck down it to the sea, and along the shore to the place where the clump of bushes grew. Here they landed, pulled the light canoe far up the beach, and... ...he edge of the jungle until they could see the opening of the reef and the bushes in a straight line. Evans had taken a native imple- ment out of the ... ..., with a still, de- liberate assurance. Right and left of the horsemen the pioneers of this strange army passed. At one that rolled along the ground, ...