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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. ... ...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...ra was born. she sold the patent to Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for $1,500. They made $15 million over the next 30 ... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...ntella" is related to tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The ... ...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... ...Primary (or compression) and secondary (or shearing) body waves (that travel in the rocks under the surface of the Earth at speeds of up to 7 kilome... ...y Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the pa...

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...information storage retrieval system, without the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. ... ...kson. Without all of you, this wouldn’t have been possible. Thank you all from the botom of my heart. v Prologue F or years, people talked about v... ...imposed exile for over a year came out of hiding… 1 Chapter 1 H artford, Connecticut, had its fair share of street violence in its past. The former... ...like a schoolyard kickball game. Afer the dust began to setle, a group of Connecticut residents got together to rebel against Zodiac’s forces and a ... ... the chance; Vincent pointed the grenade launcher and fred. The explosion rocked the front of the vehicle. It remained intact but the pilot lost con... ...articu- lar group numbered at least one hundred, and there were many more groups all over the parking lot. He approached a young man, actually more ... ... of shrapnel. One of the Fire- hawks caught a portion of the explosion. It rocked and swayed in the air but the emotionless pilot was able to bring i... ... feeling hopeless and drenched in disparity, they all began huddling into groups in an atempt to comfort each other as much as possible. The loner r... ...is what we need. Okay, maybe not that particular one as we could use some music down here, but we could fnd a powerful subwoofer that I could modify...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Do...

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...ess Control Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO ... ...4 AM Page vi Acknowledgments ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 The ideas for this book come from the theoretical and practical work I have been doing for the last te... ...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...s, and Carol Rose. Kembrew McLeod and Siva Vaidhyanathan inspired my work on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person w... ...Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bellagio provided an inspiring beginning. The Ford,... ...s the emergence of an area of concern, the coming together of very different groups around a shared problem—an imbalance in the rules that define prop-... ...alized network of hob- byists, amateurs, universities, businesses, volunteer groups, professionals, and retired experts and who knows what else. It is... ...ncti- monious preening of those who cast each junior downloader of corporate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative l... ...efineries first Making a killing off the price of gas He would have been up in Connecticut twice as fast... After all that we’ve been through nothing’s ...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...ve, nonverbal mnemonic methods. They used crude tools, such as sticks, rock, and bone, to draw pictures on the walls of caves. They also notched ... ...ges—perhaps most significantly by helping to unify China‘s diverse ethnic groups. ―Classic Chinese,‖ first written on silk cloth or sheets of ba... ...thmetic—math applied to basic numbers  geometry—math applied to space  music—math applied to the time and sound of harmonics and tuning  astron... ...nd harmonics. I‘ve since noticed how common it is for scientists to enjoy music as a hobby, as did Albert Einstein.) Soon after Alcuin‘s scholarl... ...gles, Saxons and Jutes come in waves The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the... ...cked them into his printer‘s stick, and then inserted space bands between groups of letters to create words. He had to justify each line with smal... ...tor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things from the...

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...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book. In this first chapter the nature...

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...SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTION OF IDEAS: A MICROPROCESS 12 FROM PROBLEMS TO SOCIAL ISSUES TO SOCIAL CHANGE: A MACROPROCESS 14... ...auses 14 SOME CONCEPTS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES 15 INCREASE IN CONCERN WITH IDEAS 17 From Inner to Other-Directedness 17 Voluntary Simplicity 18 SUMM... ...TIVE 67 Theories of Communication 68 Idea Marketing: A Special Case 69 IDEAS AND GROUPS: THE NEED FOR GROUPS TO ACT 69 A Case in Point: The WCTU 7... ...ed in the marketplace. One witnesses a freer proliferation of concepts as minority groups, women and children are becoming emancipated from their fo... ...and. While many Americans abide by the 55 mile per hour speed limit, the state of Connecticut developed a particular reputation for diligence in po... ...n policing speed laws. It's campaign assumed the status of a respected brand, the Connecticut Speed Laws, which stood out among those of neighborin... ...s scholar wrote, "There are many media of communications -- speech, poetry, prose, music, gesture, painting, the dance, scientific formulae and so on... ...vehicle and audience, programming compatibility must be achieved, for example with rock music. On the other hand, classical music is frequently pip... ...le and audience, programming compatibility must be achieved, for example with rock music. On the other hand, classical music is frequently piped in...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...d customs but usually they include ethical or moral attitudes. But within groups in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example ... ...ncepts that we hold in high esteem. For example, do you like classical or rock music, more money or more free time? Or on a higher level it might be ... ...s that we hold in high esteem. For example, do you like classical or rock music, more money or more free time? Or on a higher level it might be the ... ... are preparing for your occupation. When you take courses in art history, music appreciation or tennis you are preparing to enjoy your non-working li... ...ery system, whether primitive or modern, seems to have input from pressure groups, often with great financial sources. Our democratically elected rep... ...ers are merely looking for the shock value of being counter-culture. Some rock bands fit this category. You also sometimes have murderers or child m... ...der v. Bull in 1798.(75) After a probate court hearing the legislature of Connecticut passed a resolution, which probably couldn‘t be called a law. ...

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...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...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 ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ...ifc MURRAY HILL HOTEL M One Block From Qrand Central Station European Plan—Music—Smoker Headquarters in New York for All College and University Athlet... ... THE WILSON North Adams, Mass. Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H.J. Rockwell & .Son The Auto Strop SafetyRaxor Tha One Gomplete Razor Safety Ra... ...M. Moore, Mgr. W, S* Underwood Go. ^ PIANOS, it UlgillS North Adams, Mass. MUSIC PIANO TUNING A SPECIALTY P RATT BROTHERS COLLEGE i SHOES Opp. Wilson ... ...g Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H. J. Rockwell & Son The Auto Strop SafetyRazor The One Comptete Razor Safety Raz... ...hea, of Prof. Russell, to whom the book is dedicated, one campus view, and groups of Gargoyle 1907, of the class fresh- man year, and senior year in c... ...ainst the Oak Hill Gun oinb at Pittsfiold on Satur- day. Nov. 3. The fifth Connecticut Valley Student Mission Conference will be hold on Oct. 26 and 2...

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...988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never any lost books. You could search books using the SEAR...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...tive, nonverbal mnemonic methods. They used crude tools, such as sticks, rock, and bone, to draw pictures on the walls of caves. They also notched ... ...ges—perhaps most significantly by helping to unify China‘s diverse ethnic groups. ―Classic Chinese,‖ first written on silk cloth or sheets of bamb... ...thmetic—math applied to basic numbers  geometry—math applied to space  music—math applied to the time and sound of harmonics and tuning  astron... ...nd harmonics. I‘ve since noticed how common it is for scientists to enjoy music as a hobby, as did Albert Einstein.) Soon after Alcuin‘s scholarly ... ...Angles, Saxons and Jutes come in waves The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the R... ...cked them into his printer‘s stick, and then inserted space bands between groups of letters to create words. He had to justify each line with smalle... ...tor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things from the e...

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...ences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and... ...of the pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Conveniences of living 71 * Triumph of h... ...ving, village landscapes, different languages and dialects, different folk music, the whole diversity of local cultures that has existed on Earth. The... ...ther here in the village. In the evenings, we used to walk along the road, musicians used to play old folk instruments and the others follow them, dan... ...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... ...is resistance to Western entertainment, although people seem to be used to rock music. The table does not show that people’s ideas of what constitute... ...international techno-world. In Lampang, too, youth culture means clubs and rock bands. Teenagers hanging out around supermarkets want to behave and dr... ...Hinterland Relationships in Thailand. Unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, University of Connecticut. Lyotard, Jean-Francois 1986. The Postmodern Condition. Theor...

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...f, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@... ... Internet, has been transformed beyond recognition since March 2000. From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it has evolve... ...nufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet ("soft radio"), or dow... ...le MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they were preceded by radio music broadcasts. But the novelty is that the Internet provides a venue fo... ...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 ... ...r audiences. Trade unions, certain educational institutions and religious groups commenced "public radio" broadcasts. The Commercial Phase When t... ...select musicians eke out a living from their noisy vocation (most of them rock stars who own their labels - George Michael had to fight Sony to do ju... ... pioneered the current generation of electronic reading devices with its "Rocket eBook" in 1998) acquired eBookNet and hired me. NuvoMedia supported... ...e of the states have picked up the slack. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland,...

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... the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemen... ...” Then, after a pause, added: “I did it myself.” By the time I had recovered from the electric surprise of this remark, he was gone. All that evening ... ...rain beat upon the windows, and the wind roared about the eaves and corners. From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory’s enchanting book, ... ...fare and suckled her family. Presently there was a distant blare of military music; it came nearer, still nearer, and soon a noble cavalcade wound int... ...ort of twilight; there was a stone railed gallery at each end, high up, with musicians in the one, and women, clothed in stunning colors, in the other... ...rthur. That is the Lady of the lake, said Merlin; and within that lake is a rock, and therein is as fair a place as any on earth, and richly beseen, ... ... We must camp, of course. I found a good shelter for the demoiselle under a rock, and went off and found an other for myself. But I was obliged to r... ...k from crown to heel with forty seven years of holy ab stinence from water. Groups of gazing pilgrims stood around all and every of these strange obj... ...en in London itself. Traffic had ceased; men did not talk or laugh, or go in groups, or even in couples; they moved aim lessly about, each man by him...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...icult an attempt as to manufacture delicate playthings out of the granite, rocks on which New England is founded. 6 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sCha... ...r. Hooker and Mr. Stone, two ministers, went on foot from Massachusetts to Connecticut, through the pathless woods, taking their whole congrega tion ... ...rable event took place in 1643. The colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a union, for the purpose of assisting eac... ... the mysteri ous page, and read it so skilfully that it sounded like wild music. It seemed as if the forest leaves were singing in the ears of his au... ...ip, and gave him directions how to find the very spot. It was on a reef of rocks, a few leagues from Porto de la Plata. On his arrival in England, the... ... than to wear red coats and march in stately ranks to the sound of regular music. Still was heard the beat of the drum, rub a dub dub! And now a host... ...s began to stray into the town. They went, we will suppose, in parties and groups, here a hundred, there a score, there ten, there three or four, who ...

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...d, by the limited range of his practical knowledge. He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, 4 The Last of the Moh... ... the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself. His language has the r... ... were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated th... ...d. At a respectful distance from this unusual show, were gath- ered divers groups of curious idlers; some admiring the blood and bone of the high-mett... ...ay, I think not of it now; but this strange man amuses me; and if he ‘hath music in his soul’, let us not churlishly reject his company.” She pointed ... ...ou might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling ov... ...out, who approached or re- ceded from the shore, to avoid the fragments of rocks, or deeper parts of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowl... ...tor in the art of psalmody.” “Anan!” “I teach singing to the youths of the Connecticut levy.” “Y ou might be better employed. The young hounds go laug... ...d his eyes around the plain, and beheld with uneasiness the numerous dusky groups of savages, who looked out from the margin of the surrounding woods,...

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... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...following: “THE KNAVE OF BERGEN” “In Frankfort at the Romer was a great mask-ball, at the coronation festival, and in the illuminated saloon, the clan... ... leaving the carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immed... ... army on his head. Last came the Empress of Germany and the Grand Duch- Mark Twain 8 ess of Baden in a closed carriage; these passed through the low-... ...el on the right perched on a precipice overlooking the Neckar—a precipice which is so sumptu- ously cushioned and draped with foliage that no glimpse ... ...rgeon labor awhile, but could not enjoy; it was much less trying to see the wounds given and received than to see them mended; the stir and turmoil, a... ... refresh my own memory, too, for I have never read it before. 69 A Tramp Abroad THE LEGEND LORE (TWO SYLLABLES) was a water nymph who used to sit on ... ...us. Philadelphia Terrapin soup. Butter-beans. Sweet-pota- toes. Oysters roasted in shell—Lettuce. Succotash. Northern style. String-beans. Soft-shell ...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...d from an ash-barrel of a station called Charing Cross. They were to go to Rockett’s—the farm of one Cloke, in the southern counties—where, she assure... ...he assured them, they would meet the genuine England of folklore and song. Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a station, and, so fa... ...e son that was in America?” she asked. “Yes, ma’am. On my uncle’s farm, in Connecticut. He was what they call rood-master there.” “Whereabouts in Conn... ...n they tell why Skim Winsh, who came to his cottage under Dutton Shaw most musically drunk at 10.45 P.M of every Saturday night, as his father had don... ...s on pan, and key and kettle, 68 Actions and Reactions Sweet music that shall make ‘em settle; But when to crown the work h... ...d. Tea was ready in the shade of a promising copper beech, and I could see groups on the lawn of young men and maidens appropriately clothed, playing ...

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...ew moments, was already absorbed in a book. The gentleman had not even needed to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single glance round the apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answ...

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...eded to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single g... ...resenting himself with rather a work a day aspect. Mrs. Luna glanced at him from head to foot, and gave a little smiling sigh, as if he had been a lo... ...with regarding her as a vocalist of exquisite faculty, condemned to sing bad music. How prettily, indeed, she made some of it sound! ‘Of course I only... ...the little taps on table and wall, the little touches on cheek and foot, the music in the air, the rain of flowers, the sense of something mysteriously... ...ugh she had a consciousness of sitting down somewhere—the object creaked and rocked beneath her— and of the table at tea being covered with a cloth st... ... a very talented teacher (indeed her mother had been a teacher too), down in Connecticut. She had always had for Olive a kind of aroma of martyrdom, a... ...ering windows, bristled with the raw delicacy of April, and, in spite of its rockwork grottoes and tunnels, its pavilions and statues, its too numerou... ...ed by painters, announced themselves in signs of large lettering to the sky. Groups of the unemployed, the children of disappointment from beyond the ... ..., of aristocratic support and clever composure. In the outer labyrinth hasty groups, a little scared, were leaving the hall, giving up the game. Ranso...

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...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...e tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks that aid greatly in giving to the country that ro- mantic and picture... ... themselves. CHAPTER III “All that thou see’st is Natures handiwork; Those rocks that upward throw their mossy brawl Like castled pinnacles of elder t... ...er, he continued: “Now, if that young man who was in your sleigh is a real Connecticut set- tler, he will be telling everybody how he saved my horses,... ...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... ...now much divided, the men in the rear having formed themselves into little groups, where they were discussing various matters; among the prin- cipal o...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...f more than Eastern splendour, and filled (but not inconveniently so) with groups of ladies and gentlemen, in the very highest state of enjoyment and ... ..., wrestling, leap ing, diving, jumping, pitching, throbbing, rolling, and rocking: and going through all these movements, some times by turns, and s... ...y of the engine room, comparing notes in whispers. After throwing up a few rockets and firing signal guns in the hope of being hailed from the land, o... ...ell, the pupils all repaired, with out any guide or leader, to a spacious music hall, where they took their seats in an orchestra erected for that pu... ... hours. For tunately, however, the winter having been unusually mild, the Connecticut River was ‘open, ’ or, in other words, not frozen. The captain ... ...h the blankets. There was another: a young man, whose madness was love and music. After playing on the accordion a march he had composed, he was very ... ...n full leaf, must be extremely picturesque. Even in the winter time, these groups of well grown trees, cluster ing among the busy streets and houses ...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...” Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, ... ... Falconer’s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets flew self driven, To hang their momentary fires Amid the vault of hea... ... 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... ...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... ...to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the green; and...

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...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ...im: I should like to see him.” Cecilia was obliged to go to her daughter’s music-les- son, but she assured Rowland that she would arrange for him a me... ...at Bessie’s request, and was playing that he was her baby and that she was rocking him to sleep. She sat beside him, swing- ing the hammock to and fro... ...t to breathe flame and fury at ten o’clock in the evening, and soft, sweet music early on the morrow. It ‘s a very entertaining temper to ob- serve. I... ...lds, and at last found themselves on a grassy elevation studded with mossy rocks and red cedars. Just beneath them, in a great shining curve, flowed t... ...red cedars. Just beneath them, in a great shining curve, flowed the goodly Connecticut. They flung them- selves on the grass and tossed stones into th... ...he grassy desolation of the Campagna. As the season went on and the social groups began to constitute themselves, he found that he knew a great many p...

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...y a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log-hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highe...

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... on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bang... ...ce, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log hut, I ... ... on the stocks. They are light and shapely vessels, calculated for rapid and rocky streams, and to be carried over long portages on men’s shoulders, f... ...eaching seven or eight feet over the water, in order that they may slip over rocks as gently as possible. They are made very slight, only two boards t... ... from fourteen to sixteen dollars. There was something refreshing and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding m... ...following the windings of every inlet and of every cape, and stepping to the music of the surf, — with a desolate fishing town once a week, and a city’... ... of the lumberer. They are of a social habit, growing in “veins,” “clumps,” “groups,” or “communities,” as the explorers call them, distinguishing the... ...rhaps the tent poles. And not long since, similar beds were spread along the Connecticut, the Hudson, and the Delaware, and longer still ago, by the T... ...e prot´ eg´ es of the rivers. These narrow and straggling bands and isolated groups are, in a sense, the pioneers of civilization. Birds, quadrupeds, ...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ........253 BOOK XIX. SEA DRIFT ................257 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ....................................................257 As I Ebb’... ...f Grass –Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn...........................412 Italian Music in Dakota.....................412 With All Thy Gifts.................. .....................414 BOOK XXV.....................................415 Proud Music of the Storm..................415 BOOK XXVI........................... ...ining eidolons. Densities, growth, facades, Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees, Far born, far dying, living long, to leave, Eido... ... Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut! Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks! Land of... ...from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece; The groups of newly come immigrants cover the wharf or levee, As the woolly p... ..., some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women? Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other’s necks? ...

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... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...hrough this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church, its cross, its music, its processions, its Saints’ days and image-worship, we have as it w... ...d mountain summit, and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock. There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the s... ...ghtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological struc- ture was first explained to him. In a c... ...mind are invigorated by hab- its of conversation with nature. The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nat... ..., there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves... ... party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God. And so in groups where debate is earnest, and especially on high questions, the compa... ...variety. What a gallery of art have I here! No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures. Here is the artist himself impr...

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...emn emo- tion— Its ability to overcome unhappiness— Need of such a faculty from the biological point of view. LECTURE III THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN Pe... ...y describe by nega- tives— Sense of union with the Absolute— Mysticism and music— Three conclusions— (1) Mystical states carry authority for him who h... ...logy— Does transcendental idealism fare better? Its principles— Quotations from John Caird— They are good as restatements of religious experience, but... ...ther, not like the emotional effect of some poem, or scene, or blossom, of music, but the sure knowledge of the close presence of a sort of mighty per... ...not as a moralist, and without a trace of sentimental- ism. He never makes groups and departments of the ills, he never spends time in asking whether ... ...ine union. Disease can no longer attack one whose feet are planted on this rock, who feels hourly, mo- mently, the influx of the Deific Breath. If one... ...had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever.” What single-handed man was ever... ...power of the Holy Spirit on the second evening of November, 1829. Madison, Connecticut, 1830. I select this case because it shows how in these in- ner... ... you will read that a man’s ideas, aims, and objects form diverse internal groups and systems, relatively independent of one another. Each ‘aim’ which...