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...of his career - a military failure. His aide and friend, Gen. Daniel O'Leary, an Irish soldier described him so: "His chest was narrow, his f... ...tive tariffs once the British repealed the Corn Laws. Famished and disease-stricken Irish immigrants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada Wes... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The patient also had to se... ...umpkins were not part of Halloween celebrations until late in the 19th century. The Irish and other Europeans actually carved up turnips. Poor immig... ...atents between 1861-1904. The Kleenex tissue was not introduced until 1920 and the pop-up box only nine years later. Prior to the invention of t... ...ed by Hans Leip, a 19-year old German soldier in the first world war. It was put to music by Norbert Schultze (1911-2002), a collaborator with the ... ...iscovered in the "Bat Cave" in New Mexico in 1948-1950. Popcorn kernels - ready to pop - were unearthed in ancient Peruvian tombs. In a cave is sou... ...l converts water held in the seed into pressurized steam which causes the kernel to pop and the starch to expand to 40 times its original size. h...

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...ady of high distinction for wit and beauty, the daughter of an illustrious Irish House, came under the shadow of a calumny. It has latterly been exam-... ...shamed of his wonderment, and accounts for it by ‘not having known she was Irish.’ She ‘turns out to be Dan Merion’s daughter.’ We may assume that he ... ...eing their parts, until later, after the breach, when the English- man and Irishwoman resumed a certain resemblance to the yoked Islands. Henry Wilmer... ...he strings of sensualism,’ to the delight of a world gaping for marvels of musical execution rather than for music. For our world is all but a sensati... ...as right, wrong alto- gether her deduction of the corresponding sentiment. Music was resumed to confuse the hearing of the eaves- droppers. They behel... ...as in the first conception of the edifice, backs were damp, boots liquidly musical, the pipe of consolation smoked with difficulty, with much pulling ... ...y Diana, little though she concentered her attention on any figures of the groups. She had the woman’s 120 Diana of the Crossways faculty (transientl... ... towns, the people-priests, dames, cavaliers, ur- chins, infants, shifting groups of supple southerners-flashed across the page like a web of silk, an... ...eeps are perhaps measurable to those who are in them.’ ‘The sermon’s at me—pop!’ said Sir Lukin. ‘By the way, I’m coming round to think Diana Warwick ...

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...Belloni being a money-maker was redeemed in their sight by his devotion to music. Music was now the Art in the ascendant at Brookfield. The ladies (fo... ...eir house not simply attractive, but enticing; and, seeing that they liked music, it seemed a very agreeable de- vice. The Tinleys of Bloxholme still ... ...d noblemen known to him, with familiar indiffer- ence, as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his Frenc... ... re- marked, “If you tell her the company is grand, she will come, and her Irish once heard here will destroy us. The very name of Chump!” Mrs. Chump ... ... here will destroy us. The very name of Chump!” Mrs. Chump was the wealthy Irish widow of an alderman, whose unaccountable bad taste in going to Irela... ...saloon was critically still; so still that Adela fancied she heard a faint Irish protest from the parlour. Wilfrid was perhaps the most critical audit... ... answer, “With papa,” and then stopped as he was walking off to one of the groups. “After all, it won’t do for us to listen to the whims of an invalid... ...e horses and just tip up the off wheels, and round the place in a twinkle, pop ‘m in again, and nobody hurt; but you can’t ask ladies to risk catchin’...

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...poison-brewing, and choking by sul- phur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to t... ... Gay mansions, with supper- rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of l... ...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... ...burnt; but the sounder Rags among them be quilted to- gether into one huge Irish watch-coat for the defence of the Body only!”—This, we think, is but ... ...he Universe, and Man, and Man’s Life, picture themselves to the mind of an Irish Poor-Slave; with what feelings and opinions he looks forward on the F... ...acal Sect in their grand principle of wearing a peculiar Costume. Of which Irish Poor-Slave Costume no description will indeed be found in the present...

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...our years before Stalky and Beetle had carefully kicked McT urk out of his Irish dialect! Assuredly he had gone mad or taken a sunstroke, and as assur... ...ey could hear him pant. “F’what?” Colonel Dabney was growing more and more Irish. “I’m responsible for the boys under my charge.” “Ye are, are ye? The... ...him bust,” Beetle quoted from a book of his reading. “Didn’t I say he’d go pop if we lat un bide?” “No prep., either, O ye incipient drunkards,” said ... ...re poachers.” That afternoon there was joy in Aves. SLAVES OF THE LAMP THE MUSIC-ROOM on the top floor of Number Five was filled with the “Aladdin” co... ...ead, whistled lazily where he lay on the top of the piano. It was a catchy music-hall tune. Dick Four cocked his head critically, and squinted down a ... ...of disorder—Corkran”—the Slave of the Lamp smiled po- litely—”McT urk”—the Irishman scowled—”and, of course, the unspeakable Beetle, our friend Gigadi... ... them over. “Come forth, my inky buffoon, from behind yonder instrument of music! You supply, I presume, the doggerel for this entertainment. Esteem y... ... He does an awful lot, Because his popularity Rudyard Kipling Oh, pop-u-pop-u-larity— His giddy popularity Would suffer did he not!... ... with an unpleasant glare in his eye. “That means a prefects’ meeting—sure pop,” said Stalky. “Honor of the Sixth involved, and all the rest of it. Tu...

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...rice had—as they considered—thrown himself away on a little lively lady of Irish parentage, no equal in birth or fortune, in their opinion, for the gr... ...—and light streaming from it. ‘Here is your home, Albinia,’ said that deep musical voice that she loved the better for the subdued melancholy of the t... ... of thirty-six cousins, and thought, with her aunts, that Winifred was too Irish. Yet, at any other time, the histories would have made her sometimes ... ...more than Albinia thought war- ranted by any fact relating to the horde of Irish cousins. 100 Yo n g e ‘Only think, Albinia, I have found out that po... ... with me. I mean to try to ride with him, and I have promised to teach him music, and we shall garden. Never fear, I will employ him and keep him out ... ...le fellow proclaimed him- self alive by lusty roars, more welcome than any music. Partly stunned, and far more terrified, he had been in a sort of swo... ...ous joy. ‘Hollo! boy, how you grow! What have you got there?’ ‘It’s my new pop-gun, that Ulick made me, I’ll shoot you,’ cried Maurice, retiring to a ... ...l his might, till, to the equal relief of both brothers, Sophy held up the pop-gun in the tongs, one end still tinged with a red glow, smoky, blackene... ... have been impressed, had not mamma, on com- ing in, found Maurice and his pop-gun nearly equally black, and by gradual unfolding of cause and effect,...

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...se beggars were as ragged as those of Ireland, and still more voluble, the Irish traveller will be able to form an opinion of their capabilities. Thro... ...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... ...is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest and simplest of Irishmen:he has embraced his children, and reviewed his little invalid garr... ...and, I have no doubt, played to every soul of them the twelve tunes of his musical-box. It was pleasant to see him with that musi- cal-box—how pleased... ...quer or Scott’s novels, in which knights shout their war-cries, and jovial Irish bayoneteers hurrah, without depriving you of any blessed rest. Men of... ...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... ...— clumps of camels were couched in the rare herbage—dogs were baying about—groups of men lay sleeping under their haicks round about—round about the t... ... see that no flea or bug is on the look-out, and when assured of this, you pop into the bag, tightly closing the orifice after you. This admirable bug...

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...uality of intimacy and more. We wanted each other as one wants beau- tiful music again or to breathe again the scent of flowers. And that is all there... ...r Britten was short and thick-set with dark close curling hair and a ruddy Irish type of face; I was lean and fair-haired and some inches taller than ... ...’s the best time for it. We 111 H G Wells can start about five.” We heard music, and went further along the arcade to dis- cover a place where girls ... ...rticularly, and in this order, Londoner’s, Yorkshiremen, Scotch, Welch and Irish, because they were not “reet Stafford- shire,” and he hated all other... ..., and I remember disconnectedly quite a number of brightly lit figures and groups walking about, and a white gate between orchard and garden and a lar... ...hy but determined. She had rather open blue eyes, and she spoke in an even musical voice with the gen- tlest of stresses and the ghost of a lisp. And ... ...stling with extraor- dinary degrees and prizes capturned in provincial and Irish and Scotch universities—and had made a name for himself as the most f... ...rtain amount of open-air speaking in the dinner hour outside gas-works and groups of factories. Some special sort of people was, as it were, secreted ... ... them showed that I was, so to speak, merely the first of the chestnuts to pop. The atmospheric quality of the evening stands out very viv- idly in my...

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... paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish 20 Babbitt or any other foreign government. Keep our hands strictly ... ...d of Mr. and Mrs. Doppelbrau as “Bohemian.” From their house came midnight music and obscene laughter; there were neighborhood rumors of bootlegged wh... ...ed hair, his nose-glasses, his hesitant speech, his moodiness, his love of music, as a younger brother, to be petted and protected. Paul had gone into... ...lofty and half-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate th... ... but clung to her strength. She cried cheerily, “Now up-stairs you go, and pop into bed. We’ll fix it all up. I’ll see to the doors. Now skip!” For ma... ...eered—young cynical work- men, for the most part foreigners, Jews, Swedes, Irishmen, Italians—but the older men, the patient, bleached, stooped carpen... ...arefully tucked into my vest pocket, I am reminded of the story of the two Irishmen, Mike and Pat, who were riding on the Pullman. Both of them, I for... ...g home, he passed McKelvey’s limousine and saw Sir Gerald, a large, ruddy, pop-eyed, Teutonic Englishman whose dribble of yellow mustache gave him an ... ...the arms of Lithuania) was a half-familiar man, a large red-faced man with pop eyes and a deficient yellow mustache. He seemed kind and insignificant,...

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... astonished by a tremendous popping—fabric, wires, everything seemed going pop, pop, pop, like a ma- chine-gun, and then came a flash of intense pain ... ...to her feet. “Poff,” she said, “I want to go and see the evening primroses pop. You and I are talking non- sense. They don’t have ideas anyhow. They j... ... You and I are talking non- sense. They don’t have ideas anyhow. They just pop—as God meant them to do. What stupid things we human beings are!” Her p... ... And Prothero had a gift for cari- cature, while Benham’s aptitude was for music. It was Prothero’s eyes and pencil that first directed Benham to the ... ...umsy, inconsecutive lying and chatter of his newspapers, his hoardings and music-halls gives the measure of his con- gested intelligences, the confusi... ...yes, black hair, a mobile mouth, and a pathetic history, who talked of old music to him and took him to a 93 H G Wells Dolmetsch concert in Clifford’... ...to pull the legislature of the British Isles to pieces in obedience to the Irish demand for Home Rule, and they were totally unpre- pared with any sch... ...fled gallop- ing of troops through the broad dusty street in the night, of groups of men standing and watching down straight broad roads, roads that e... ...f men standing and watching down straight broad roads, roads that ended in groups of chimneys and squat buildings of corrugated iron. And once there w...

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...Good, strong, wholesome medi cine, as was given with great success to two Irish labourers and a coal heaver, ony a week before—sent ‘em for nothing, ... ... of the place, were the pub lic houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wran gling with might and main. Covered ways and yards, which h... ...to spare, it would be more wholesomely expended on the treadmill than in a musical instrument. He made no answer: being occupied mentally bewailing th... ... unclosed, and a few scattered people were met with. Then, came straggling groups of labourers going to their work; then, men and women with fish bask... ...ves of the old tree stirred gently in the night wind. It seemed like quiet music for the repose of the dead. Sunbury was passed through, and they came... ...oby Crackit. ‘How are you, Faguey?’ said this worthy, nodding to the Jew. ‘Pop that shawl away in my castor, Dodger, so that I may know where to find ... ...dream of a love and affection he had never known. Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower... ... crime. He looked sus piciously about him, for the men were conversing in groups, and he feared to be the subject of their talk. The dog obeyed the s... ...uld have seen him. From early in the evening until nearly midnight, little groups of two and three presented themselves at the lodge gate, and inquire...

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...grown buck, with Hector and the slut open upon him within sound, with that pop-gun in your hand! There’ s plenty of pheasants among the swamps; and th... ...e. In addition to this show of cultivation were two rows of young Lombardy pop- lars, a tree but lately introduced into America, formally lining eithe... ...od luck to ye, and a welcome home, Jooge,” cried the female, with a strong Irish accent; “and I’m sure it’s to me that ye’re always welcome. Sure! and... ...ntaining cider or beer, were placed between the heavy andirons, and little groups were found among the guests as subjects arose or the liquor was pass... ...ot a rhyme for the last line yet. Well, old John, what do you think of the music? as good as one of your war-songs, ha?” “Good!” said Mohegan, who had... ...lack head to gray.’ —Hear how old John turns his quavers. What damned dull music an Indian song is, after all, Major! I wonder if they ever sing by no... ...into the low, quavering sounds that seemed to compose the character of his music. The attention of the company was now much divided, the men in the re... ...tted in the flats further west, and married squaws; and some of the Scotch-Irishers, from the Cherry Valley, would come on to the lake, and borrow my ... ...very day , and that’ s all round the compass, except a little matter of an Irishman’ s hurricane at meridium, which you’ll find marked right up and do...

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...give us enough diversity.. We definitely don‟t want religious or cultural groups protesting our reality, a reality with which we all are quite satisf... ...years before applying. Thirty is our normal threshold age. You don‟t just pop out of puberty and automatically become ready for parenthood. Most pe... ...e to ascertain if they have special talents, particularly in mathematics, music, the arts, sports, language facility. This helps the parents to help... ...an‟s General Musharraf was also taken to task for siding with human rights groups who were trying to overturn the Shariah laws put in place 25 years ... ...ior. So Turks in Germany, the Pakistanis in Norway, and many other social groups often continue the practices of arranged marriage, honor killings, t... ... television and films, and participation in things like sport and art and music. But not just watching people sing, act or play, we think it‟s a was... ...st achievement in a society. The same is true for actors and many popular musicians. But it also holds for many in business or in government. Fame s... ...ternational hotel reservations. The previously low paid but well educated Irish picked up the same kinds of jobs and became centers for international... ...om Central America. The times have changed since the 1800s when we needed Irish and Chinese laborers to build the railroads—and much of the rest of t...

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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... ...crawl like worms, pushing their carts and singing their songs as traditional music blared forth. He died every time he saw one of them. He yearned for... ...Korean language) on the signs, looked as identical as the occasional mom and pop stores and it was all indistinguishable from what he saw minutes and ... ...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... ...ved down sidewalks like window-shopping loiterers looking into every mom and pop store along the way. "Ilchik tangshin-tul rul basketball ul hayoshimn... ...aditional music from small speakers, and sang into microphones; more mom and pop stores on each block than one could count; and tight department store... ... and top of the morning to you!" She looked toward this strange Southern and Irish sound and saw her son walking back and forth on stilts before the k... ...se, the historical origin of the bird which probably evolved from one of two groups of dinosaurs, the--oh shit, I can't remember-- during the early pa...

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...et mansion stood looking over a wide green lawn, over banks of flowers and groups of trees. It had a striking character of elegance, produced partly b... ...ng was of the best, and I became as fat as a monk. We made a great deal of music, and acted comedies.” This is the only description that Rousseau give... ...s warm and still; the air was admirably soft. The good Manceaux, in little groups and pairs, were seated near me; my ear was soothed by the fine shade... ...n tumbrels that jolt slowly to the scaffold, of heads carried on pikes, of groups of heated citoyennes shaking their fists at closed coach-windows, I ... ...d by two and escaped from another,—and by the familiar manner in which you pop in and out. This episode rather broke the charm of Saint- Sernin, so th... ... done. The bulls are rarely killed, and indeed often are bulls only in the Irish sense of the term,—being domestic and motherly cows. Such an entertai... ...re has a voice as well, but it lingers on the ear of time with a different music. The Roman theatre at Arles seemed to me one of the most charming and... ...ectory) dur- ing which the treasure could not be shown. The purpose of the musical chimes to which I had so artlessly listened was to usher in this fr...

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...llery towards the tribune of the chapel. In the first place there was some music; then tables were placed all about for all kinds of gambling; there w... ...shed his courtiers to attend assiduously. This evening, directly after the music had finished, the King sent for Monseigneur and Monsieur, who were al... ...adies into the saloon near the chapel, where was a fine collation, and the music. At nine o’clock he conducted Monsieur and Madame la Duchesse de Bour... ...aslin, who had the command of our cavalry, put himself at the head of some Irish battalions which under him did wonders. Although continually occupied... ...to have that gate free and open during the night to let in assistance. The Irish seconded so well this attack, that it was at length suc- cessful. A t... ...rtheless, thought of withdrawing his troops to the castle, when Mahony, an Irish officer who had fought bravely as a lion all day, proposed to go and ... ...at once hastened to the chateau, where I found a great buzzing and several groups of people talking. Mahony was closeted a long time with the King. At... ...ignified manner; presiding, in fact, over the Salon of Marly, and over the groups gath- ered round him, like the divinity of a temple, who receives wi... ...at the Parliament was near. So soon as he had retired, the Council rose by groups, and could no longer be kept seated. M. le Duc d’Orleans himself at ...

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...en Prince of Wales, in 1641. The catch in the text has been happily set to music.] As the chorus ended, there followed a loud and hearty laugh by way ... ... been repeatedly hinted to me, had no good name; and the attraction of the music, without rivalling that of the si- rens in melody, might have been fo... ...it was into knells and sand-pits, would permit me to obtain a sight of the musicians before I should be observed by them. As I advanced, the old ditty... ...a ram when be makes his race, darted off right down the street, scattering groups of weatherbeaten lairds and periwigged burgesses, and bearing down a... ...arted, the brig was going down the Firth, and apparently steering into the Irish Sea. He called to Nanty Ewart, and expressed his surprise at the cour... ...Summertrees, ‘there is yet one other question. Has he brought any of those Irish rapparees with him, who broke the neck of our last glorious affair?’ ... ...inting them. 469 Sir W alter Scott RANT, a noisy dance-tune. RAPPAREE, an Irish plunderer; a worthless fellow. RATIONE OFFICII, by virtue of his posi...

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... enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.... Utter confusion exists among the historians of this... ...Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor.” An Irish author avers that the Earl of Le- icester, on bended knees, did likew... ...om the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a ne... ... corn when you may, say I. All legs go to harvest soon. Ah! here comes the music; now for it! Azore sailor. (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up... ...l rest), whence requim denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music. Now, in allusion to the white, silent still- ness of death in this s... ...irgin! that’s our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales—happiness weighed and found wanting; and whi...

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... enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families. Utter confusion exists among the historians of this an... ...Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor.” An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewis... ...om the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a ne... ...e corn when you may,say I. All legs go to harvest soon. Ah! here comes the music; now for it! Azore sailor. (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up... ...rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funereal music. Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this 18... ...Virgin! that’s our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales — happiness weighed and found wanting; and w...

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...al teas, you should try it, I mean, you most probably already sniff shit, pop pills and vegetate.” It is times like this, which prompt masochistic t... ...at shop with bookmarks, coffee mugs, spiritual literature, dangly things, music and two large scenic pictures. Wendy must have thought me not only n... ...re bills, keep them.” We both smiled. “Do you want a hand?” His words were music to my ears. “Yes! I mean, only if you can spare the time.” My heart p... ...partmental overseer named Mr. Isaacs, whom Steven refers to, as the lolly pop man because he’s always sucking up to officials and board members. Isa... ... one of dad’s drivers leaning up against the car. Steven and Ali suddenly pop up at my sides. I didn’t think it would be long, I feel like a 45 spo... ...t know whether to laugh or cry at one of their own. With Ali cutting the music, you could’ve heard a flea fart from upstairs it was so quiet. I sne... ...ue assured me it’s a nice place and I’ll fit in considering the mixed age groups. Whilst walking down the hall towards a lounge area, I instruct to ... ...tell you woman….” The ghoul spoke to me, yet I cut him off. “Oh fuck he’s Irish!” “Oh fuck I’m not!” It replied. “I’m Scottish damn you woman. As I ...