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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. ... ...He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all the goings-on, rep... ...addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire ... ...d the Jamaica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "... ...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 ... ...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... ...r, who committed his atrocities in September-October 1888, was not the tall, gaunt, gothic, dark figure we all "know" from countless movies. Act... ...twice (1922 and 1923), who was 5- foot-7 and weighed 140 pounds (c. 65 kg.). Norman Rockwell, the painter, was on the panel of judges in 1923. Ca...

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... contains I suggest that besides reading it individually you discuss it in groups, together with other people who are enthusiastic about the ideas it... ...e myth and those who embody it, just as what happens, for example, between rock stars and their fans. 15 An artist is someone who makes the impos... ... statue tells the story of David, a young shepherd, who used a single river rock to knock out Goliath the giant and with him the arrogance of the Phi... ...ually and together, not like in the times of the Egyptian pyramids or the Gothic cathedrals, because now, if everyone is an artist, there are no m... ...he comments you made yesterday evening and this morning, both in the small groups and in the big one. Allow me, after having expressed my admiration ... ...enjoy the work of art. Let’s look at an even clearer example. Do you like rock music? I don’t like it, but at this time millions of people like it.... ... didn’t help them become a single great people, instead of a colony of the British Empire. It hadn’t helped them create a soul of a people who were ... ...uclear reaction around a unified center of gravity, just like we do in our groups. 139 The more courage we have, the greater the freedom we will ...

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...as been asserted A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-9560192-0-2 Paperback Printed, bound and distrib... ...r, they instantly forgot what they were doing and hurried over to the big rock where the Storyteller sat. The scarlet light of the three moons glis- ... ...ful, yellow teeth. Before long they had formed a semicircle around the big rock. Late- comers jostled for a place. Those who ended up at the back lash... ... opened his eyes and looked up at the Storyteller. The old man sat on his rock cross-legged as always, but now with his head clasped deep in his han... ...e Park presently they came to the corner of the park. There they saw small groups of people listening to speakers standing on old wooden crates or pl... ...rs overhead, but there was nothing like candlelight to give that sense of gothic drama so appropriate for an old library. They took their seats and ... ... will present the man who found him with a cheque to the value of 100,000 British pounds.’ The crowd gasped, although they knew perfectly well how m...

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...ing uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me to help him, and was soon apologiz... ...sting under trees, I became aware that the crowd had scattered into small groups. How hungry we were! How thirsty! Then more dancing and, with tiny ... ...ate, a Nike on chalcedony, a nude girl on jasper, a fighting lion on rock crystal... Sappho is enjoying her collection: the sun, in her bedr... ...a spear. He can’t believe he’s wounded. It’s not his blood spattering the rocks... “A man lies beside his shield, a hole in his side. He can’t belie... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...ny moment. VOICES FROM THE PAST 314 We eat lunch before a handsome Gothic fireplace. A woodcutter tosses on chunks... I continue working...th... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...contend with it? I will urge Congress to pass an aid bill. I will propose groups of citizenry who can advise. The White House Saturday evening ... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson...

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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... ...s of the large grazing animals. Hominids found that by taking a heavy enough rock and bringing it down with sufficient force onto a thigh bone, the... ...cially difficult task. Simply smash the bone hard enough with a heavy enough rock and it would split. This was the survival technique that saved t... ... upright and had their hands free, learned to create hand-tools by splitting a rock so it has a linear cutting edge which can be used to butcher a ki... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ...lternative The Evil of the Undead Bram Stoker… who stoked the fires of gothic horror… cramming it into English literature… as a new elite cra... ...them. You have no idea of what these undead scum are capable of. All the gothic horror stories seen in movies, all gothic romances and ghost st...

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...h as these, in the nature of the case, cannot be endowed with the fixity of rock-ribbed law. They are meant for the average case, and must be appli... ...ltar, Straits Settlements, Mississippi River, Three Rivers, Laughing Brook, Rocky Mountains, Blue Hills, Pike's Peak, Mount of Olives, Great Desert,... ... White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British Museum, Thatre Fran~ais, Lexington Hotel, Masonic Temple, [Solo... ...oes, etc.: The Beginnings of the Science of Politicd Economy, Vol. I, 'The British School," chap. 2, "John Stuart Mill;" the articles "Cross," "Cru... ...e digits, unless of a statistical or technical charac- ter, or occurring in groups of six or more following each other in close succession: "There ... ...2 pecks of potatoes and a pint of vinegar." Treat all numbers in connected groups alike, as far as possible; do not use figures for some and spell ... ...ybizls saw the f 1906 THE FIRST TIME THAT THE GRAND PROSPE INTERCHANGEABLE GOTHIC SIX POlNT NO. I THC ?#IS1 TIWC THAT THC ORAID CIOSCCCT HAD mCCN... ...STTlM 1906 TWENTY-FOUR POlNT THE FIRST19 Specimens of Types in Use I77 GOTHIC CONDENSED SIX POINT When thoughtful Greeks llke Polyblus saw the... ...lME THAT THE GRA TWENTY-TWO POlNT When thoughtful Greeks 1 906 LIGHT-FACE GOTHIC SIX POlNT When thoughtful Greeb like Polybius saw the fall of Ca...

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...ol Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–19... ...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... ...ry embodi- ment of all that is wrong. (I still cherish a friend’s account of British protesters outside the American Embassy in London singing “D-M-C-... ...uld the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they have devel... ...structions, carry out the desired operations, and write the answer down. The British mathematician Alan T uring imagined something like this—a little ... ...79 you will get a selection of beautiful photos of the lovely piece of faux Gothic architecture that sits about three hundred yards from the office wh...

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...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... ...fought between publishers-librarians over formats (book sizes) and fonts (Gothic versus Roman) were ultimately decided by consumer preferences. Mult... ...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... ...journals are as respectable as any print journal. BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal) is eminently respectable. It offers 100% of its ... ... pioneered the current generation of electronic reading devices with its "Rocket eBook" in 1998) acquired eBookNet and hired me. NuvoMedia supported... ...at has an established base of customers and actual dedicated devices, the Rocket eBook and REB1100 and REB1200s. Gemstar's format actually has a lot ... ...s is a "code of honour" (more reminiscent of the Sicilian Mob than of the British Parliament, let’s say). Violations are punished by excommunication... ...E to the Russian MTS - are becoming regional. Multinationals, such as the British Vodafone and the French Orange - have entered the regional fray. S...

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...me, and in a thou- sand permutations and combinations, belong to four main groups. We have (1) SOLDIERS, and with these I class sail- ors, railway por... ...m mounted or nine afoot in a box for a small price. We three like those of British manufac- ture best; other makes are of incompatible sizes, and we h... ...of a strip of cardboard. Their own island, the one to the south-left, is a rocky wilderness containing caves. Their chief food is the wild-goat, but i... ...atures of wood, in happier days the inhabitants of that Swiss farm. Sunken rocks off this island are indicated by a white foam which takes the form of... ... comes the island nearest to the reader on the left. This also is wild and rocky, inhabited not by negroid blacks, but by Indians, whose tents, made b... ...r on is the big church or cathe- dral. It is built in an extremely debased Gothic style; it re- minds us most of a church we once surveyed during a br...

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... along that road are in the habit of rest- ing. This company, divided into groups that were more or less numerous, presented a collection of such fant... ...t sumptuous, dress of a few individuals dispersed here and there among the groups, where they shone like flowers. In fact, the blue linen trousers of ... ...eads defiantly. They covertly examined the woods, and paths, and masses of rock which flanked the road, after the manner of a dog with his nose to the... ...n their declivities other and lesser valleys full of dewy freshness. These rocky heights made a vast enclosure, circular in form, in the centre of whi... ...old blockhead. A pretty time to choose to let fools sail the ship! English rockets from all the head- lands, and those cursed Chouan cockchafers in th... ...uld be if I allowed that ci-devant, who dares to come from London with his British gold, to trap me like a crow!” On learning these secret circumstanc... ...ua. “For the Gars, the leader sent to the Chouans and the V endeans by the British cabinet; his real name is Marquis de Montauran.” 80 The Chouans Th... ...ached by spiral stairways. T o add to this effect, the rock is capped by a Gothic church, the small spires, clock-tower, and buttresses of which make ... ...oss on the altar, his altar the earth. In place of the carved foliage of a Gothic cathedral, the autumnal trees upheld the sky; instead of a thousand ...

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...rs. All this part of the exterior of the cathedral is very brown, ancient, Gothic, grotesque; Balzac calls the whole place “a desert of stone.” A batt... ... terminating, a little beyond it, in the walk beside the river. An elegant Gothic doorway is let into the rusty- red brick-work, and strange little be... ...s of the Sacred Heart have erected a terribly modern convent here. A large Gothic doorway, in a high fragment of ancient wall, admits you to a garden-... ...iently to explore its recesses. These sacred niches are scooped out of the rock, and will give you an impres- sion if you cannot do without one. You w... ...admirable bridge, and leaning, behind, as it were, against the pedestal of rock on which the dark castle masses itself. The town is so small, the pede... ... castle so high and striking, that the clustered houses at the base of the rock are like the crumbs that have fallen from a well-laden table. You pass... ...ttle suggestion, in the untended aspect of walk and lawns, of the vigilant British gardener. The manor of Azay, as seen to-day, dates from the early p... ...nder the mirror behind the comptoir, was a much more civilized spot than a British public-house, or a “commercial room,” with pipes and whiskey, or ev... ...s of Montpellier. Long before Mentone was discovered or Colorado invented, British invalids travelled down through France in the post-chaise or the pu...

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...e head- 7 Thackeray land into Vigo Bay, passing a grim and tall island of rocky mountains which lies in the centre of the bay. Whether it is that the... ... view in our country. The sun had not yet set, but over the town and lofty rocky castle of Vigo a great ghost of a moon was faintly visible, which bla... ... hundred yards from the little town, with its white houses clambering up a rock, defended by the superior mountain whereon the castle stands. Numbers... ...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...- ging up the hideous perpendicular place, you were to find regi- ments of British grenadiers ready to plunge bayonets into your poor panting stomach,... ...e ragged soldiers leave their pipes to sa- lute him as he passes under the Gothic archway. The astonishing brightness and clearness of the sky under w... ...e noble old towers of the Church of the Sepulchre, with pointed arches and Gothic traceries, rude, but rich and picturesque in design. Here crowds are... ...n it. Look at the fervour with which pilgrims kiss and weep over a tawdry Gothic painting, scarcely better fashioned than an idol in a South Sea Mora...

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...ist- ence for making things clear, counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is... ...btle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach follows them presently upon the same erran... ...nyone who from the perspective of Italy may seem to be a representative of British opinion. If Herbert Spencer had been alive General Radcliffe would ... ..., Austrian shells began to come over. They do not use shrapnel because the rocky soil of Italy makes that unneces- sary. They fire a sort of shell tha... ...te crags, making perhaps a hundred metres of ascent each day, hiding under rocks and in holes in the daylight and receiving fresh provisions and ammun... ...held out invincibly; this was the Castelletto, a great natural fortress of rock standing out at an angle of the mountain in such a position that it co... ..., which is, I sup- pose, the last southward fortress of the Franco-English Gothic. “It was here,” said my host, “that we burnt the German stuff.” “Wha... ...e not been very deeply moved. I suppose that one is a little accustomed to Gothic ruins, and that there is always something monumental about old build... ...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...

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...nvoirlich’s head, The deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance borne, Were heard the clanging ... ...ught the wild heaths of Uam-Var. III. Yelled on the view the opening pack; Rock, glen, and cavern paid them back; T o many a mingled sound at once The... ...up the margin of the lake, Between the precipice and brake, O’er stock and rock their race they take. VIII. The Hunter marked that mountain high, The ... ...h T ombea’s Mary gave T o Norman, heir of Armandave, And, issuing from the Gothic arch, The bridal now resumed their march. In rude but glad processio... ...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... ...ht enable him to do it justice,—I mean my friend Mr. Francis Douce, of the British Museum, whose usual kindness will, I hope, par- don my mentioning h...

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... 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 ... ...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ... he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study of the 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 ... ...venings, with his Zither and “Express his Longing in low Singing,” as Garnham says. On one of these occasions, “suddenly there hovered around the top ... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ...

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...of elegant models; their excessive whiteness, as contrasted with the brown rocks, or the sombre, deep, dull, heavy green of the olive tree; and the pu... ...o hot to have a hand laid on them comfortably. We went, first of all, up a rocky height, to the cathedral: where Mass was performing to an auditory ve... ...om into crisp blue fire. The air was so very clear, that distant hills and rocky points appeared within an hour’s walk; while the town im mediately a... ...e on, nothing daunted, proceeded to entertain him with an ordinance of the British Government, regulating the state he should preserve, and the furnit... ...I am theirs again to morrow! Ariosto’s house, T asso’s prison, a rare old Gothic cathedral, and more churches of course, are the sights of Ferrara. B... ... Past plots of garden, theatres, shrines, prodigious piles of architecture—Gothic— Saracenic—fanciful with all the fancies of all times and coun trie... ...uld gaze upon the favourite comic scene of the travelling English, where a British nobleman (Lord John), with a very loose stomach: dressed in a blue ... ...he highway road to Paris. Or how Strasbourg itself, in its magnificent old Gothic Cathedral, and its ancient houses with their peaked roofs and gables... ...ladder and this man, something like (I should think) a charge of the heavy British cavalry at W aterloo. The man was never brought down, how ever, no...

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...ppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare v... ...tional, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in co... ...uch title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here presen... ...o History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by un- known agen... ...bs,—will depend on the nature of such Architectural Idea: whether Grecian, Gothic, Later Gothic, or altogether Modern, and Parisian or Anglo-Dan- diac... ... us to that joint-stock ve- hicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ...alking, has a grateful effect. Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic- arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an 35 Thomas... ...t of practical Reason’ proceeding by large Intuition over whole systematic groups and kingdoms; whereby, we might say, a noble complexity, almost like... ...despicable firework. Happy, if it indeed proved a Firework, and flamed off rocket-wise, in successive beautiful bursts of splendor, each growing natur...

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...ure invention. I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover appo- site mottoes, and, in the situation of the ... ...d), it includes within its precincts the mountain of Arthur’s Seat and the rocks and pasture land called Salisbury Crags. But yet it is inexpressible ... ...s too extreme to pause for explanation with Janet. On I pushed through the groups of children, of whose sports I had been so often a lazy, lounging sp... ...gs, can only be excused in folly or superannuation. It is like riding on a rocking-horse, where your utmost exertion never carries you a foot forward;... ...ords, when they are unsupported by proofs, are like seed sown on the naked rocks, or like an house biggit on the flitting and faithless sands.” Here I... ... to its name of Castle only from the front windows being finished in acute Gothic arches (being, by the way, the very reverse of the cas- tellated sty... ...abroad a conducteur; or might be compared to the sailing-master on board a British ship of war, who follows out after his own manner the course which ... ...ive tartan, and so named to distinguish them from the scarlet ranks of the British army. In this occupation she spent many hours of each morning and e...

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... was the world’s desire. And tho’ the tempest lashed her oft, And tho’ the rocks had hungry teeth, And lightnings split the masts aloft, And thunders ... ... hue; – The heavy flood of tears unlock, More precious than the Scriptured rock; At least instil a happier mood, And bring them back to womanhood. Ala... ...urs of fretful sloth, Weary with much delay, they hold discourse In sullen groups and cloudy masses, stirred With rage irresolute and whispering plot,... ...the tempest, fierce And eager with tempestuous delight; - He like a moving rock above them all Solemnly towering while fitful gleams Brake from his de... ...ed the sky. THE HEAD OF BRAN THE BLEST I When the Head of Bran Was firm on British shoulders, God made a man! Cried all beholders. Steel could not res... ...iding after. XIII Down the awful aisles, by the fretted walls, Beneath the Gothic arches:– King Skull in the black confessionals Sat rub-a-dub-dubbing... ...cupation Can’t rob you of your own esteem, old rat! I’ll preach you to the British nation. SONG Should thy love die; O bury it not under ice-blue eyes... ...llow flamed the meady sunset; Red runs up the flag of morn. Signal for the British onset Hiccups through the British horn. Down these hillmen pour lik... ...’s club withheld the blow; A milky cloud went all to flame. And there were groups where silvery springs The ethereal forest showed begirt By companies...

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...ing to Croisic for sea-bathing (thought to have greater virtue among those rocks than at Boulogne or Dieppe) is still an immense event. The peasants c... ...rs, inlaid with arabesques of ivory and bought in Venice, with other noble Gothic furniture. Here too are pictures and articles of choice workmanship ... ... and, finally the mighty ocean tossing its foaming fringe upon the granite rocks as if the better to bring out their weird formations—that sight uplif... ...ng. 72 Balzac Instead of entering the room, the young man sat down upon a Gothic seat covered with green velvet, which stood on the landing beneath a... ...me. I am not the dupe of his professed desire to go to Croisic and see the rocks and the dunes and the salt-marshes without me. He meant to leave us a... ...by the window and watch the road to the marshes.” Calyste arranged a great Gothic chair for her near the win- dow, and opened one of the sashes. Camil... ...stinction due to her rank as the wife of a du Guenic and the daughter of a British peer. Mademoiselle des T ouches urged Calyste to see Paris, while s... ...rcase was crowded by fashionable women ranged on the stairs or standing in groups below it, awaiting the an- nouncement of their carriages. Beatrix wa...