...Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...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 ... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ... ...) - which represents 38,000 mental health professionals - joined other professional groups in supporting the right of homosexual (gay and lesbian) ... ...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... ...owner. Like Puccini, Verdi lived, out of wedlock, with the common-law wife of a musical agent, the prima donna Giuseppina Strepponi. When she me...

... 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... ...n we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or with creatures, machines, or groups able to survive and thrive in extremely hostile environme... ...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount...

...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 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... ... create out of thin air. Perhaps he or she is deeply embedded in a literary, musical, cultural, or scientific tra- dition that would not flourish if tre... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ...ghts about human nature, the periodic table, Ohm’s law, the sonnet form, the musical scale. Would you have paid to purchase access to each of these? I... ... I do not mean to trivialize them. I worked with a couple of civil liberties groups in opposing the hapless Communications Decency Act, The Internet T... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c...

... copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today's policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its...

...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 ... ...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... ...—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... ... he wants himself. The coast of Labrador ooi^ti- Continued on page 5. Next Musical Clubs at Troy Wednesday The annual Troy concert given by the musica... ...y true in tlie case of the Islands of the South Sea. Attempts were made by Scottish missionaries to establish missions in the New Hebrides as early as... ...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... ... — .3 J^ 11 IV— "~ ^- |i' ."_ such us town iimetiiigs, social set- tlement groups or lumber camps. The change from recitation room work to practical a...

... 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... ...to be 360 days instead of 365. Why? Because they divided their numbers into groups of 20 called ‘toons’… not 10, and because they regarded the num... ...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... ...e exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why the totality of a musical octave contains twelve notes. This is why the Earth’s Crust ha... ...welve minor organs of your body, it is the Totality of the twelve major nerve groups leading into your cranium… your twelve ribs, etc…. all put toget... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ...s the Franciscan steeple reel? And see! upon the crowded street, In motley groups what masquers meet! Banner and pageant, pipe and drum, And merry mor... ...w (cf. vi. 488), and sometimes = precipice. 73. On the lone wood. Note the musical variation in the measure here; the 1st, 3d, and 4th syllables being... ...5 below. 523. In better time. That is, in better times or days; not in the musical sense. 524. Chime. Accord, sing; a poetical use of the word. Cf. vi... ... for him. The maniacs or poetry have indeed had a prescriptive right to be musical, since the days of Ophelia downwards; but it is rather a rash exten...

... a strict sense, the very awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the ... ...true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely wi... ... In this way grew up that twofold revolution which has been convulsing the Scottish church since 1834; first, the audacious attempt to disturb the set... ...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... ...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... ... realities of angels and archangels are continually combined into the same groups with the fabulous impersonations of the Greek my- thology. Eve is in... ...oint of just taste, to the combination of such fabulous beings in the same groups with glorified saints and angels, as there is to the combination, by...

... reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back; and, like the inquir... ...ng to our definition, in spite of its proved and naked insuffi- ciency. Mr. Jenkin was not so easily pleased, and readily dis- covered that the heroic... ...readily dis- covered that the heroic line consists of four groups, or, if you prefer the phrase, contains four pauses: ‘All night | the dreadless | an... ...erse is made at the same time to read in fives and to read in fours. *Milton. 11 The Art of Writing But again, four is not necessary. We do not, inde... ... Writing and groups, logic and metre – harmonious in diversity: com- mon to both, the task of artfully combining the prime ele- ments of language into... ...it again upon a foot of fairy lightness; and I believe this first suggested to me the idea of the Chevalier Burke for a narrator. It was at first inte...

...rt the Bruce and of his son David. He was one of the chief of that band of Scottish chiv- alry who accompanied James, the Good Lord Douglas, on 6 The... ...Spain, and was killed there. Lockhart proceeded to the Holy Land with such Scottish knights as had escaped the fate of their leader and assisted for s... ..., and the Saracen matron testified so much haste to recover it as gave the Scottish knight a high idea of its value, when compared with gold or silver... ...ean proficient in the art of minstrelsy—had instantly discovered, that the musical strains, namely, which had reached their ears, were produced by the... ..., “that your Grace finds the mule a useful slave, though his voice be less musical than horse-hair or wire.” “What, thou canst not yet digest that qui... ... lately a solitary fountain, distinguished only amid the waste by solitary groups of palm- trees, was now the centre of an encampment, the embroi- der...

...modest. I knew I liked Mr. Jones from the moment I saw him. I thought him by his face to be Scottish; nor could his accent undeceive me. For as there ... ...fficult to keep ones footing on the deck. I have spoken of our con- certs. We were indeed a musical ship’s company, and cheered our way into exile wit... ...ile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the so... ...th generous applause. Once or twice, a recita- tion, very spiritedly rendered in a powerful Scottish accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sough... ... work of Richelieu complete. It is a people of lace-makers. The women sit in the streets by groups of five or six; and the noise of the bobbins is au-... ...eet where I was then living, their song, which was not much louder than a bee’s, but airily musical, kept me in a perpetual good humour. I put the cag... ...whence, going you cannot imagine whither, and belonging to every degree in the hierarchy of musical art, from the recognised performer who announces a...

...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...she uttered that might be proposed in example to ladies of much supe- rior musical talent. Her natural good sense taught her, that if, as we are assur... ...ibility to poetry, and power of combining its expression with those of the musical notes, that her singing gave more plea- sure to all the unlearned i... ...l effects either upon the brain or constitution. At length the fluctuating groups began to swim before the eyes of our hero as they gradually closed; ... ...de still a moving picture upon the narrow plain, forming various changeful groups, their feathers and loose plaids wav- ing in the morning breeze, and... ...ect of the people who traversed the street in haste, or stood assembled in groups, with eyes elevated, and hands uplifted, announced that some extraor...

...d schemes were formed, as desperate as they were adventurous. Thus a young Scottishman of rank is said to have stooped so low as to plot the surprisal... ...s on the Law of Scotland Resolved and Answered,’ are works of authority in Scottish jurisprudence. As is generally the case, the doubts are held more ... ...ill of late years, every advocate who catered at the 15 Sir W alter Scott Scottish bar made a Latin address to the Court, faculty, and audience, in s... ...d, well-made, white-ankled Thetis, who had obtained me manumission from my musical task. This was nothing less than the sudden appearance of the old w... ...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...

...t have been in Europe; the moun- tain forms behind modelled in little from the Alps, and the forest which clustered on their ramparts a growth no more... ...ir plantations. How plausible! And yet the Marquesans are dying out in the same houses where their fathers multi- plied. Or take opium. The Marquesas ... ...ny one interested in the subject ought to read this tract, which contains real information; and yet Mr. Bishop’s views would have been changed by an a... ...s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mostly French... ...own 49 Robert Louis Stevenson loses itself in a low wood of many species of acacia; and deep in the wood a ruinous wall encloses the cemetery of the ... ...call in return for his sandal-wood. As he came behind us down the vale he sounded upon this continually. And continually, from the wayside houses, the... ...ucted, or seem- ing so by contrast. There was much variety of measure, and towards the end of each piece, when the fun became fast and furious, a reco... ... fled; and when at length the leader found the wit or the author- ity to get his troop in motion and revive the singing, it was with much diminished f... ...y dear for the closing of the well; that our breath was in the king’s nos- trils; that if the king should by any chance be bludgeoned in a taro-patch,...

...ion, in the emphatic words, ‘Hang them a’!’ Unanimity is not required in a Scottish jury, so the verdict of guilty was returned. Jean was present, and... ...ed tempore Caroli primi was, says my authority, Sir Robert Douglas, in his Scottish Baronage (see the title Ellangowan), “a steady loyalist, and full ... ...was very gloomy. Equipt in a habit which mingled the national dress of the Scottish com- mon people with something of an Eastern costume, she spun a t... ...e, its variety of lights, and the eternally changing bustle of its hundred groups, offers, by night espe- cially, a spectacle, which, though composed ... ...w, so we must make the most of our conquest to-night.” This led to another musical trial of skill, and that to lively conversation. At length, when th...

...b owner, about whom one needed not to trouble one’s head, a most excellent Scottish ship—for she was that from the keep up—excellent sea-boat, easy to... ... along on the thick mats to meet me in the broad central passage. He had a Scottish name, but his complexion was of a rich olive hue, his short beard ... ...vage face of that old seaman. However, I noticed that she was holding some musical instru- ment—guitar or mandoline—in her hand. Perhaps that was the ... ...nds of faint tapping on the deck. They could be heard single, in pairs, in groups. While I wondered at this mysterious dev- ilry, I received a slight ...

...an away,—a slight jar was thus given to the else triumphal effect of these musical ovations. Once having ut- tered my protest, however, willingly I ga... ... when the one side yearned for breakfast, and the other for a respite: the groups, therefore, on or about the bridge, if any at all, were loose in the... ...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ...was a family of amiable children, who were more skilfully trained in their musical studies than at that day was usual. They sang the old English glees... ...- bility to music, had also, as may be supposed, the most en- tire want of musical knowledge. No blunders could do much to mar my pleasure. There firs... ...n churches in the Society, Friendly, and Sandwich Islands—as well as other groups less known in the South Seas; Admiral H. A., on assuming the command... ... from independent states, in all quarters of the earth, with how many more groups might the spectacle have been crowded, and especially of those who f...

...me dis- tinction very carefully in an excellent article contributed to the Scottish Art Review. In a prefatory note to ‘Mardi’ (1849), Melville declar... ...s might be seen numbers of cocoanuts floating closely together in circular groups, and bobbing up and down with every wave. By some inexplicable means... ...peans to designate the Islanders. In the various dialects of the principal groups it is simply a sexual designation applied to the males; but it is no... ...along with spear. When we moved off in this order, the natives struck up a musical recitative, which with various alternations, they con- tinued until... ...ngs in golden spheres from every branch, the islanders assemble in harvest groups, and garner in the abundance which sur- rounds them. The trees are s... ...enge, and, as soon as our palms met, he bent to- wards me, and murmured in musical accents—’How you do?’ ‘How long you been in this bay?’ ‘You like th... ...th produces at every stroke of its hard, heavy wood, a clear, ringing, and musical sound, capable of being heard at a great distance. When sev- eral o...

...ther figures, through a whole fever. Passing through the court yard, among groups of idle sol diers, we turned off by a gate, which this She Goblin u... ...trewn with people fast asleep in every little slip of shade, and with lazy groups, half asleep and half awake, who were waiting until the sun should b... ... from the heat of the fire, and where the brave Courier plays all sorts of musical instruments of his own manufacture, all the evening long. A mighty ... ...dow, I looked down on boats and barks; on masts, sails, cordage, flags; on groups of busy sail ors, working at the cargoes of these vessels; on wide ... ...y by the Jura mountains, sprinkled with snow, and lighted by the moon, and musical with falling water, was delightful; or how, below the windows of th... ...becoming bleaker and wilder, until it be came as bare and desolate as any Scottish moors. Soon after dark, we halted for the night, at the osteria of... ... of skeletons, helmets of guards and warriors; little household bells, yet musical with their old domestic tones. The least among these objects, lends...

...hters of the family; but Edward was the only son;—descended, too, from the Scottish hero Wallace, as the old gentleman would sometimes ad- monish him;... ...f new fortunes. Glamorganshire was at least a better climate than Bute; no groups of idle or of busy reapers could here stand waiting on the guidance ... ...ves; crossed by roads and human traffic, here inaudible or heard only as a musical hum: and behind all swam, under olive-tinted haze, the illimitable ... ...ught, and drown the world and you!—I have heard Coleridge talk, with eager musical en- ergy, two stricken hours, his face radiant and moist, and commu... ...e given up, and formed (if the room were large enough) secondary hum- ming groups of their own. He began anywhere: you put some question to him, made ... ...the blest and the intelligible:—on which occasions those secondary humming groups would all cease humming, and hang breathless upon the eloquent words... ...all her gayety gone, the dimpling softness be- come liquid sorrow, and the musical ringing voice one wail of woe, “burst into tears,”—so I have it on ... ...ioned. In those very days while Arthur Coningsby was getting read amid the Scottish moors, “in June, 1833,” Sterling, at Bonn in the Rhine-country, fe...

...f the original subject is lost. De Quincey divides his writings into three groups: first, that class which “proposes primarily to amuse the reader, bu... ...tobiographic Sketches and the Literary Reminiscences. As a second class he groups “those papers which address them- selves purely to the understanding... ... animation of frank social intercourse—have disarmed the guard. Beyond the Scottish border, the regulation was so far relaxed as to allow of four outs... ...nical yet natural, in great national tidings,—for revelations of faces and groups that could not offer themselves amongst the fluc- tuating mobs of a ... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...ut Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish woods 3 sommers days to take. 68 27 PUCELLE D’ORLÉANS: Maid of...