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...Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the arm... ...Barbie Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. It was modelled on a minuscule German sex doll called "Lilli". Barbie was the nickname of Ruth'... ...irst world war, in 1917, the US War Industries Board called on women to stop buying metal-rich corsets. Some 28,000 tons of metals were thus made av... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...ium- size enterprises, though it maintained control of the finance, transportation, heavy industry, and foreign trade sectors (the "commanding heigh... ...n the human body contain mitochondria. Mitochondria are more abundant in cells with heavy energy requirements, like muscle cells. A third type ... ...ions were trounced by Isaac Shoenberg and his team, set up in 1931 by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). RCA refined its own system, as did the... ...ovico Sforza, was used for target practice by invading French soldiers in 1499. The metal which was supposed to go into this work of art was molded ...

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... He lacks real talents - he know how to play only six jazz tunes, can't make up his musical mind between his faithful sax and a newly alluring drum ... ...ntors. The source of the dilemma (which led to his act of choosing) is that the two groups overlap. Truman found himself in the impossible positio... ..., then young girls and female infants would have been preferred over all the other groups of passengers. Old women would have been left with the me... ... improving on many fronts, showed Lomborg: known reserves of fossil fuels and most metals are rising, agricultural production per head is surging, ... ...nt and unfaithful Icelandic, seductive Czech and Russian women, a Dr. Mengele type German, a Ukrainian pimp. The torture chambers are located in a ... ...roceed to torture and amputate the sinister ringleader, a Central European- vaguely German, respectable-looking, middle-class type. He is too late s... ...g game that is Balkanian music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. The smells are heavy with muskular perfumes. It is like time travel. It is like...

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... the bodies were deflating like tires. He wanted to sit at one of the red metallic tables on a plastic stool among a group of saffron robed monks, wi... ...es into plastic bags sealed with rubber bands or put the plates of food on metallic tables. So many city residents (all of whom lived in apartments) d... ... "Lets talk of them, the ashes that they be. They make up one of two groups of people in your life and these categories of individuals need to b... ...e evanescent nectar in the dissolution of events and time." "Only two groups?" "Only two unless you make up a third. All I know of the futu... ...y in front of the park bench there was a woman before him who carried two heavy buckets of ice and drinks. Startled to an awakened state by the woma... ...he hundred women on a given day that sought to get traveler's visas at the German Embassy escorted by their boyfriends so as to begin a departure that... ...ed becoming a Luk Thung singer of Traditional Thai music. They wore their heavy makeup and pointed golden tiaras for beggarly bits of baht. However, ... ...l training and boldness could persevere to be someone accomplished in this musical genre. He could run to Noppawan Piggy's home. He had the address...

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...se presentation of Pyrrhonism in relation to its historical development and the Scepticism of the Academy, with critical references to the French and German works existing on the subject. The time and manner of the connection of Sextus Empiricus with the Pyrrhonean School has also been discussed....

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...d the Scepticism of the Academy, with critical references to the French and German works existing on the subject. The time and manner of the connect... ...opes of Aenesidemus against Aetiology. The Tropes of ἐπνρή are arranged in groups of ten, five and two, according to the period of the Sceptical Sc... ...the period of the Sceptical School to which they belong; the first of these groups is historically the most important, or the Ten Tropes of ἐπνρή, a... ...ntly upon the senses if applied in small or large quantities, as filings of metal or horn, and separate grains of sand have a different color and to... ...ena. For example, the Pythagoreans explain the distance of the planets by a musical proportion. II. From many equally plausible reasons which might ... ...nt, but not with the positive motive, like that of the great philosopher of Germany, of evolving a system to present the truth. Yet the importance o... ... to them as to us. Jugglers by 46 lightly rubbing the wick of the lamp with metal rust, or with the dark yellow fluid of the sepia, make those who a... ...ey are in the cold air, and a body surrounded by water is light, but by air heavy. Leaving aside, however, 126 outer mixtures, our eyes have inside ...

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... infinitely small-split particles, and then began coming together into larger groups of infinitely small energy particles... to eventually merge tog... ...ines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a musical scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the h... ...roperties of both waves and particles. This is why the main vibration of any musical note exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why... ...s to the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Bec... ...the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Because t... ...eparate one wavelength from another. All stringed instruments with frets use metal bars as buffers to separate one particular wavelength from the re... ...s to the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Bec... ...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa...

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...onna. Much of this portrait work has the characteristic of be- ing done in groups, where not on- ly is character well indicated, but also the reasons ... ...or Grey Dress Overcoats, Hats, Shoes, Neckwear and Hosiery Scotch Ulsters. Heavy Knick- erbockers and Norfolk Suits for Winter Sports Catalogue with i... ...oeniaking in Spring and Summer Footwear Including Boots and Oxfords In Gun Metal. Box Calf, Tan Calf, Dry Calf, Coltskins, and Tan Leather A full Line... ...r Grey Dress Overcoats, Hats, Shoes, Neckwear and Hosiery Scotch I'lsters. Heavy Kiiick- erbookors and Norfolk Suits for Wilder Sports Gatnliigiui wit... ...iiiff in Spiioi and Siiiiinier Footwear Including Boots and Oxfords In Gun Metal, Box Calf; Tan Calf, Dry Calf, Coltskins, and Tan Leather A full Line... ...nager, J. H. Lapliaui '07; captain, C. M. Waters 'lo. Glee Club—Manager of Musical Associa- tion, C. B. Rogers "07 ; leader of mandolin club, T. K. Th... ...a; Entrance, History. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 2.30 p, m., 4 H. H.—College, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek.... ...esday, April 3, 1907, 9.00 a. m., 4 H. H. —College, English 2, English 14, German 1, Latin 1, Meteorology; Entrance, English, French. Wednesday, April... ...—Manager,]. H.Laphani '07; captain, C. M. Waters '10. Glee Club—Manager of Musical Associa- tion, C. B. Rogers "07 ; leader of mandolin club, T. K. Tl...

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...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...a mokotong. He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually... ...ng at a curb with other pedestrians waiting for the light to change rocked a metal, rectangular trash container, which swung back and forth on a hinge... ...t the door. He stepped out over the crevice of a yard. A light sprinkling or heavy mist was falling upon him. Past the gate and into the street the ge... ...red in his perceptions as reality and not a part of his dreams. It was of a German American woman in a Volkswagen driving southwest through America's... ...re the most expensive fashions of the elite that gave her broad and muscular German frame elegance as she got ready to take her son to galleries, temp... ...nection, looked like a man suffering from some neuron-entangled nervousness, heavy neurosis, or a bad prion making the holes in his head to match the ... ...'s "New House Rules for Immigrants" to the Latinos as they sat before her on metal seats. They were lectured that the food given to them should be pu...

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...m" still reign supreme. In extreme - though surprisingly frequent - cases, whole groups (typically minorities) are excluded from the nation's mor... ...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...een dreamers and dreams in different societies and cultures. The more "information heavy" the culture, the more the dreamer is bombarded with messa... ...nt will be replaced by a vertical, hierarchical, largely corporate structure with heavy government intrusion and oversight. Read essays about the ... ...ists (like musicians) - often describe their interpretation of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathemat... ... improving on many fronts, showed Lomborg: known reserves of fossil fuels and most metals are rising, agricultural production per head is surging, ... ...nt individualism play an important socio-cultural role in this semipternal game of musical chairs. Many products have a limited shelf life or an ex... ...iqueness. We, hitherto the only humans, bring forth intelligent, new breeds of Man, metal sub-species, the wired stock, a gene pool of bits of bytes...

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...m" still reign supreme. In extreme - though surprisingly frequent - cases, whole groups (typically minorities) are excluded from the nation's mor... ...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...een dreamers and dreams in different societies and cultures. The more "information heavy" the culture, the more the dreamer is bombarded with messa... ...nt will be replaced by a vertical, hierarchical, largely corporate structure with heavy government intrusion and oversight. Read essays about the ... ...ists (like musicians) - often describe their interpretation of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathemat... ... improving on many fronts, showed Lomborg: known reserves of fossil fuels and most metals are rising, agricultural production per head is surging, ... ...nt individualism play an important socio-cultural role in this semipternal game of musical chairs. Many products have a limited shelf life or an ex... ...iqueness. We, hitherto the only humans, bring forth intelligent, new breeds of Man, metal sub-species, the wired stock, a gene pool of bits of bytes...

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...orth, and discovered the northern coast of Spain, France, England, Holland and Germany. It is also believed that he proceeded as far north as Iceland.... ... a hut in a native village, he heard a great noise as if some one was striking heavy blows, which inducing him to rise, he went out and demanded the c... ...anding, as related by the Sagas, is to the effect that among the company was a German named Tyrker, who being the most impetuous of the crew, was not ... ...sis of the armor which was thus resurrected proves to have been identical with metal used in the composition of the armor of the Norsemen of the tenth... ...s before, four fishing boats put out to sea from Friesland, but encountering a heavy storm were helplessly driven for many days until at length they w... ...breeze, and when the breeze is blowing will curse the whistlers, lest by their musical efforts a storm should, be provoked. He will not tell the numbe... ...ieved that the travellers heard strange whisperings in the air and concerts of musical instruments, and the drums and noises of armies, which so disco... ...Polo says, "The money of the Great Khan is not made of gold or silver or other metal; but they take the middle bark from the mulberry tree, and this t... ...and staff, making his way over parching sands under a blazing tropical sun; in groups, little bands of men, well armed, for every road is infested wit...

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...ed the road to the corner of the Phahonlyothin road. It was midday and the heavy heat shimmered around me, the shop next to me sold dried fish. With m... ...he problems? What is light today, will really sink, to the bottom. What is heavy today, or people's opinions and what people today want, will rise to ... ...umerous side alleys and lanes criss- cross the main lanes, twisting around groups of houses and village backwaters, but always ending up re-joining th... ...eek opportunities to manage together. In the cold season, villagers sit in groups in the mornings in the sun, warming themselves. By and by, the young... ...houses of white-collar workers, too, the gate is always closed and a large German Shepherd dog patrols the yard behind the gate. The current ideal hou... ...joints in load-bearing structures were solid without the need for nails or metal fixings, for example, the ends of floor joists were slotted through ... ...s do not have the characteristic timbre of the old way of singing, and the musical scale is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same st... ...e, hygiene and good manners has above all been a 19 th century European (German, bourgois, middle-class) human ideal (the advent of which in the Nor... ...ion and Equality. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. Yupho, Dhanit 1960. Thai Musical Instruments. Transl. from Thai by David Morton. Siva Phorn Ldt., Ba...

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...rship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist XXIII. Germany’s Copyright Levy XXIV. The Future of Online Reference XXV. Ol... ...bones about their offerings. Many of them are located outside the USA (in Germany, or Asia) and at least one offers papers in a few languages, Hebre... ...an't afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing, in large groups and hope that some will send you money. Instead the future belongs ... ...ference between sound and text. In music, what matter are the song or the musical piece. The medium (or carrier, or packing) is marginal and interch... ...cluding site maintenance and customer and visitor services. Despite these heavy outlays, site designers are constantly criticized for lack of creati... ... users are still cautious. Studies discovered that no user, no matter how heavy, has consistently re-visited more than 200 sites, a minuscule number... ...r audiences. Trade unions, certain educational institutions and religious groups commenced "public radio" broadcasts. The Commercial Phase When t... ...cts similar to his history. It will alert him to movies, TV shows and new musical releases - all within his cultural sphere. If convinced to purchas... ... the Sabines(TM). He became an artist, clad in leather, he started a heavy-metal band called The Garage(TM). It was then that he discovered TV, so he...

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...an inane guesses that the particular car he was in would hit those coupled metallic bumps of the rails while on this incessant trip to Nongkhai, movin... ... falling all those fourteen stories, and crashing through that plastic and metal canopy over the swimming pool at Assumption University, he needed his... ...he were to be perceived as another wealthy and indolent foreigner (usually German or French but not always so) suffering and despondent because of a k... ...ch was even more asphyxiating than the carbon exhaust fumes permeating the heavy traffic that moved in slow increments down the street was a fog that ... ... minute of temporary derangement that was quite natural in life, a game of musical chairs in which the chairs also moved. He further averred that a mo... ...ping through a straw the juice of a coconut as she read a book through her heavy spectacles; an odd if not grotesque painting of Noppawan with the per... ... all Thai holidays. For it was on such days that happy or speciously happy groups burgeoned rife on sidewalks as a type of rank urban wildflower; and ... ...e steps of shopping malls where the roots of these blooming and ambulatory groups more fully tangled his steps like seaweed washed on crowded shores. ... ...rmatous brute although perceived more erotically for it. As this issue was germane to him, he thought that nothing truer could have been spoken. He fe...

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...is custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bou...

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...the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; ... ...vercome by the heat of the room, the cheap tobacco, and the effects of his heavy meal, he dropped off to sleep. Late in the afternoon his canary bird,... ...tings took place here and there; a conversation was begun; others arrived; groups were formed; little impromptu receptions were held be- fore the chop... ...ery in- stant he seemed to feel the generous solid weight of the crude fat metal in his palms. The glint of it was constantly in his eyes; the jangle ... ...- 33 Frank Norris denly flashed in Maria’s palm. There it was, the virgin metal, the pure, unalloyed ore, his dream, his consuming desire. His finger... ... with a pink face and wonderful hair, absolutely white. The Sieppes were a German-Swiss family. “We go to der park, Schuetzen Park, mit alle dem child... ...re by the orchestra, after which came “The Gleasons, in their mirth-moving musical farce, entitled ‘McMonnigal’s Court-ship.’” This was to be followed... ...ter this came a great array of other “artists” and “specialty performers,” musical wonders, acro- bats, lightning artists, ventriloquists, and last of... ...age. They were dressed in Tyrolese costume; they were yodlers, and sang in German about “mountain tops” and “bold hunters” and the like. The yodling c...

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...Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once ...

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...tried—perhaps not very success- fully—to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowl- edge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what... ...e with ignorance, not knowing that I have taken counsel of one of our best musical critics, and had the benefit of your conscientious help. I have, pe... ...filmy scarf swept aside by the wind and immediately renewed; those bronzed metal figures 6 Massimilla Doni speechlessly inhabiting the silent grove; ... ...msical resemblance to a dog. His complexion, tainted, no doubt, by various metallic in- fusions as prescribed by some Hippocrates, verged on black. A ... .... “The Austrians provide us with a sort of ease that is as stultifying and heavy as themselves, while you overwhelmed us by your devouring energy. But... ...composition, wor- thy to compare with the most elaborate structures of the Germans, but never fatiguing or tiresome. “Y ou French, who carried through... ...eam of vengeance, even for a mo- ment? Handel, Sebastian Bach, all you old German masters, nay, even you, great Beethoven, on your knees! Here is the ... ... for the festal allegro? Did you not get a glimpse, as it were, of dancing groups, the dizzy round of a whole nation escaped from danger? And when the...

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...r other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered d...

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...f their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than pape... ...way faintly into the immea- surable distance. The ship went rolling over a heavy, swelter- ing, calm sea. The breeze was a warm and soft one; quite di... ...wing and reading, and the blind were, for the most part, set to perform on musical instruments, and got up a con- cert for the visitors. It was then w... ...ible, that even as blind beggars they could hardly get a livelihood in the musical way. 15 Thackeray HENCE WE WERE DRIVEN to the huge palace of Neces... ...inhabit hand- some stone palaces, with balconies and projecting windows of heavy carved stone. The lights and shadows, the cries and stenches, the fru... ...ion and liveliness as I have never witnessed before. And the effect of the groups of multitudinous actors in this busy cheerful drama is heightened, a... ...; a host of jingling barouches, more miserable than any to be seen even in Germany, were collected at the landing-place; and the Greek drivers (how qu... ...alliance as this?) perpetually pulling and tugging at me, away from honest Germany, where there is beer and aes- thetic conversation, and operas at a ... ...in. But to manufacture European iron into pikes and helmets was a waste of metal:in the shape of piston-rods and furnace-pokers it is irresistible; an...

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...before. This wild spreading weed was perhaps of deci- sive importance; the Germans at any rate were attempting to make it a cultivated flower. There w... ...al, sacrifice, and serenity of the home population; all were affected. The German culti- vation of opinion began long before the war; it is still the ... ...worth half a franc within the confines of Amiens. 7 H G Wells But a large heavy piece of exploded shell that had been thrust very urgently upon my at... ... onset of wear, and Italy is the most fortunate land in the world for road metal; her mountains are solid road metal, and in this Venetian plain you n... ...war tourist skirts precipices and takes hairpin bends upon tracks of loose metal not an inch too broad for the opera- tion, or it floats for a moment ... ...usy, through which there is a perpetual coming and going of processions of heavy vans to the railway sidings. One dodges past a monstrous blue-black g... ...” at all. One finds that the apparent subaltern is really a musician, or a musical critic, or an Egyptologist, or a solicitor, or a cloth manufacturer... ...r their alli- ances, we may count it that the matter rests now between two groups of Allies and one neutral power. So that while on the one hand the d... .... 2 2 2 2 2 In the complex structure of the modern community there are two groups or strata or pockets in which the impulse of social obligation, the ...

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...nct arose irresistibly, it became his pack and he did not seem to care how heavy it was nor where he took it, so long as he did not take it to its des... ...e of the London and Antwerp shipping and the Hamburg- America liners. Then heavy motor-cars began to run about on only a couple 13 H G Wells of wheel... ...’t only us neither. There’s the Japanese; you bet they got, it too—and the Germans!” The soldier stood with his legs very wide apart, and filled his p... ...a leading hotel in Piccadilly, in which he tried to horse-whip a prominent German musician upon some personal account, delayed his promised ascent. Th... ...t to them. They handled a line of cheap gramophones, and did a little with musical boxes. The staple of their business was, however, the letting of bi... ... ourselves—the Desert Dervishes.” They bowed profoundly. The few scattered groups upon the beach regarded them with horror for the most part, but some... ...o an open 80 The War in the Air balcony and a light ladder and gallery of metal, lattice over- hanging, empty space. Bert followed his leader down to... ...burg alloy, German steel as it was called, the toughest and most resistant metal in the world. There was no lack of space. Space did not matter, so lo... ... it seemed like a hand-to-hand scuffle in the sky. Then they broke up into groups and duels. The descent of German air-ships towards the lower sky inc...

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...in their spiritual guide. But as to the preference for oratory—for loud or musical voice—for peculiar views in religion—these things are special: they... ...nds meet or flow into each other. III. Ear-rings of gold, silver, inferior metals, or even horn, were worn by the Hebrew women in all ages; and in the... ...ing chains, which depended so as to strike against clappers fixed into the metallic belts. The pleasant tinkle of the golden belts in collision, the c... ...were either strung upon a thread, or attached by little hooks—singly or in groups, according to their size. This taste was very early established amon... ...r northern use of them, it has been satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a German Journal, that the Greek and Roman ladies knew nothing of that modern... ... realities of angels and archangels are continually combined into the same groups with the fabulous impersonations of the Greek my- thology. Eve is in... ... the extent of his own igno- rance, though doubtless founded upon what the Germans call an einseitig or one-sided estimate, there was however that sor... ...er adequate provocation, and with no final result of evil; Bonaparte under heavy aggravations of ingratitude and in- discretion. Both assumed the char... ...lness, accompanied by great suffering, may probably enough have been found heavy. Another objection to that paper is, that it too easily assumes the r...

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... what is passing under our very eyes. But here, as in so many other cases, Germany, learned, indefatigable, deep-thinking Germany comes to our aid. It... ...ughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch-tower; and, to the raging... ...imitable “Extra-Harangues;” and, as it chanced, On the Proposal for a Cast-metal King: gradually a light kindled in our Professor’s eyes and face, a b... ...estial or human prey; without implements, with- out arms, save the ball of heavy Flint, to which, that his sole possession and defence might not be lo... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with continual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glockenspiel) fastened there; wh... ...t of practical Reason’ proceeding by large Intuition over whole systematic groups and kingdoms; whereby, we might say, a noble complexity, almost like... ...hereof, in all care- fulness employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.’ Uttering which singular w... ... hand-grips with Destiny her- self, may have comported himself among these Musical and Literary dilettanti of both sexes, like a hungry lion invited t... ...the west- ern sunbeams, like a palace of El Dorado, overlaid with precious metal. Beautiful rose up, in wavy curvature, the slope of thy guardian Hill...