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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. ... ... About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of r... ...to introduce her in court, but George V was outraged. Upon his death, the Prince of Wales became King on January 20, 1936. Ernest Simpson - who was... ...u (The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, journalists, 116,000 visit... ...ryplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not include the 27 books of New Testament in their Bible. The factoids below relate to the v... ... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...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...

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...Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of... ...ugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour patterns of gender equality and... ...hines and they are very good. Although I have heard that somewhere in the south, where they started using machines earlier, they have found that ric... ...d buffalo calves from Phayao, and then I raised them and sold them in the south, in Kamhaeng Phet. Today, hardly anyone in this village keeps buffalo... ...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... ...s do not have the characteristic timbre of the old way of singing, and the musical scale is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same st... ... music Yupho 1960. Morton 1974; 1976. Phutharaporn 1998. 44. Davis 1976. Wales 1983. Rajadhon 1961; 1968. Tambiah 1969; 1970. Davis 1976. Klausner ... ... music Yupho 1960. Morton 1974; 1976. Phutharaporn 1998. 44. Davis 1976. Wales 1983. Rajadhon 1961; 1968. Tambiah 1969; 1970. Davis 1976. Klausner ... ...ion and Equality. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. Yupho, Dhanit 1960. Thai Musical Instruments. Transl. from Thai by David Morton. Siva Phorn Ldt., Ba...

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... 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...

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...e The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Pag... ...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... ...n Wilbanks at Science Commons, neither organization would exist today. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and another Creative Commons board member, al... ...” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their ... ...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-... ...nment official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to use. The official was not o... ... 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... ...e sold. Region 1 is the United States and Canada. Region 2 is Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and—bizarrely—Greenland. Region 3 is South... ...3n29. Waldfogel, Joel, 74, 102, 273n28, 276n12. Waldron, Jeremy, 36, 262n51. Wales, Jimmy, ix. Wall, Larry, 185. Walsh, John P ., 161, 252, 283, 284, ...

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...Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and di... ...g a full circle from considering the Internet to be the next big thing in New Media delivery - to frantic efforts to contain the red ink it oozed al... ...an't afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing, in large groups and hope that some will send you money. Instead the future belongs ... ...ference between sound and text. In music, what matter are the song or the musical piece. The medium (or carrier, or packing) is marginal and interch... ...Commerce System) and OeBF (Open e-Book). Companies ,like Enpia Systems of South Korea (a DOI Registration Agency), have already implemented a DOI-cu... ...tial pricing (as pharmaceutical companies were forced to do in Brazil and South Africa). A Macedonian with an average monthly income of 160 USD clear... ...ence is that correspondence with and complaints to Wikimedia and to Jimmy Wales go unanswered or stonewalled by a variety of minions. Even when (rar... ...hence the anarchy) - but edit they do. This fact and recent statements by Wales to the effect that the Wikipedia is actually regularly edited may pr... ...cts similar to his history. It will alert him to movies, TV shows and new musical releases - all within his cultural sphere. If convinced to purchas...

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... of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.carav... ...et with an extraordinary potential for growth, and pushing the industry to a new level of competition in ways to connect us to each other and to the W... ...echnologies and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose, rather than in th... ... 4 8 1 2 Germany 7 3 3 2 4 3 France 9 4 14 4 3 4 United Kingdom 4 13 9 3 6 6 South Korea 12 9 2 9 11 9 Canada 5 23 5 7 10 5 Spain 13 5 15 16 5 7 Taiwa... ... way that millions of dollars can go into production and marketing for a new musical recording 39 while a gifted unknown musician hums an original tun... ...t in preferred outlet. Mozart might have turned to painting if there were no musical instruments for which to compose, but there is no particular reas... ...bara van Schewick, Adrian Vermuele, Eric von Hippel, Fred von Lohmann, Jimbo Wales, Ginny Walters, David Weinberger, Yorick Wilks, Ruth Zittrain, and ... ...&emc rss; Choe Sang-Hun, Mi- crosoft Settles Antitrust Suit over Windows in South Korea, N.Y. T, Nov. 12, 2005, at C3; News Release, No. 45/04, E... ...itlers” to describe cats that look like Hitler). 19. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales underscores that Bomis, his dot-com search engine business, was not...

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...he population. Religious questioningis now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new religiouscreeds and organizations. It sometimes feels as if there are as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Chri...

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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...rince. At various times I redrafted a parallel dedication to the Prince of Wales, to the Emperor William, to Mr. Evesham, to a certain news- paper pro... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ...s manifest she followed the domestic events in the life of the Princess of Wales, who is now Queen Mother, with peculiar interest and sympathy. “Pray ... ..., 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 ... ...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 ...

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...obert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsy... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ng and capable exterior. They were divided into two 59 New Arabian Nights groups, one about a roulette board, and the other surround- ing a table at ... ...plosive and revengeful to the same degree; he combined the vivacity of the south with the sustained and deadly hatreds of the north; and both traits w... ..., he desired to bury his existence and escape to one of the islands in the South Pacific, and it was in Northmour’s yacht, the Red Earl, that he desig... ...e designed to go. The yacht picked them up clandestinely upon the coast of Wales, and had once more deposited them at Graden, till she could be refitt... ...was still lurking between Manchester and Liverpool, or along the border of Wales; and the day after, a telegram would announce his arrival in Cuba or ... ...us inclination of the head. Partly from the smile, partly from the strange musical mur- mur with which the Sire prefaced his observation, Denis felt a... ...d to limp about the apartment, clearing his throat the while with that odd musical chirp which had already grown so irritating in the ears of Denis de...

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...hat of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-for... ... violate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them. A. D. had no conc... ... rarely exposed him to be singled out for such distinction. He was a great musical ama- teur in his way -after business; and had a paternal affection ... ... he answered, looking up with his widest and almost sudden smile; ‘humming musical recollections— of his last night’ s quartette party , I suppose—thr... ... 342 Dombey & Son governing inclination towards the north, east, west, or south, but inclined to all four quarters of the compass, and to every point... ...ow in com- ing to the plants, this morning. The weather was warm, the wind southerly; and there was a sigh of the summer-time In Princess’s Place, tha... ... steal away , I’ d do my duty as a mother by him, till he was covered with wales!’ The young Alexander, interpreting this into a positive prom- ise, t... ...ion, and had been intently stared at from the opposite side of the way, by groups of hungry gazers, at any time between sunrise and sunset. The idlers... .... Of steam- ing on at last into smooth water, and mooring to a pier whence groups of people looked down, greeting friends on board. Of disembarking, p...

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...miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an erra...

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... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...s chilled and checked. Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in the opening ... ...le inactive, but there were a lot of people standing dispersedly in little groups, and with a general direction towards the gates of the Bantock Burde... ...ysentery and bad poetry, and a few hundred deaths in battle, conquered the South African Boers at a gross cost of about three thousand pounds per head... ... like a free fight, and off with a rush and clatter east, west, north, and south. The interest passes outwardly; the men from the little rooms are goi... ...stened sullenly to his talk with Miss Ramell, and saw only, as they say in Wales, with the front of my eyes, the small flat drawer that had, it seemed... ... decorative crock- ery, and hangings, and embroideries, and bad music, and musical instruments shared this fate. And books, countless books, too, and ...

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...n have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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... of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornel... ...a guinea a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life... ...d money he broke away entirely from his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on... ...es, which ac- cordingly appeared in the London Magazine in that year. This new sensation eclipsed Lamb’s Essays of Elia, which were ap- pearing in the... ...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... ... mail-coach trav- ellers where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles apart, met... ...) iden- tified in an instant an old friend of mine whom I had known in the south for some years as the most masterly of mail- coachmen. He was the man... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled dream is circumstantially reported in Section ...

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...rly twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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.... Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the ... ...pers: but now it was a clean white shirt, and his best black trousers, and new pink and white braces. He sat under the gas-jet of the back kitchen, lo... ...s something like the keyboard of a piano: more still, like a succession of musical notes. For the rectangular planes of light were of different intens... ... Aaron’s Rod The whole party moved out on to the crimson-carpeted gangway. Groups of people stood about chatting, men and women were passing along, to... ...etter than Asiatics, though they are wallowers— the American races—and the South Sea Islanders—the Marquesans, the Maori blood. That was the true bloo... ...blind. Awful affair. But the children are awfully nice children. Prince of Wales awfully nice, almost too nice. Prince Henry smart boy, too—oh, a smar... ... wonderful—Queen Victoria?” And so, by light transitions, to the Prince of Wales at the front, and thus into the trenches. And then Herbertson was on ... ...HE OPERA SEASON ENDED, Aaron was invited by Cyril Scott to join a group of musical people in a village by the sea. He accepted, and spent a pleasant m... ...ashed about, rather bewildered, having crossed the Alps in their migration southwards. Aaron noted with gratification a certain big magnificence, a ce...

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...hout any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, ...

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...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...2) were in themselves, for dramatic effect, the most impressive on record. Southey pronounced their preeminence when he said to me that they ranked am... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...ot uniform; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whate... ...lasquez, who had in 1623 executed a portrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those who in the three or four following years minister... ...old to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and no- bler life. Occupied originally by no shadow of any earthly inte... ...ssing the violated equi- librium to our feelings, we subscribed throughout Wales to extort six horses from the astonished innkeepers, most of whom dec... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...and returning homewards at intervals, with anxious and dissatisfied looks. Groups of both sexes were collected at every corner of the wider streets, k...

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...and bigger and rounder and rounder—balloons in course of inflation for the South of England Aero Club’s Saturday-afternoon ascent. “They goes up every... ...e under notice to quit, the last patch of country in a district flooded by new and prbaa things. He did his best to console himself, to imagine matter... ... and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shops, more competition, plate-glass ... ...rench artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zeala... ...University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s suffrage, she h... ...t to them. They handled a line of cheap gramophones, and did a little with musical boxes. The staple of their business was, however, the letting of bi... ... ourselves—the Desert Dervishes.” They bowed profoundly. The few scattered groups upon the beach regarded them with horror for the most part, but some... ... it seemed like a hand-to-hand scuffle in the sky. Then they broke up into groups and duels. The descent of German air-ships towards the lower sky inc... ...rifting along, and such encounters became more fre- quent as he got out of Wales into England. Amidst all this wreckage they were still campaigning. H...

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... of all the scientific faculties he had;—very strange mystery indeed, this new arrival, and fresh deni- zen of our Universe: “Wull’t eat a-body?” said... ...- toration we find him again, safe, and as was natural, flour- ishing with new splendor; gifted, recompensed with lands;—settled, in short, on fair re... ...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 ... ...e or bigger hills, in the pleasant plain of Glamorgan; a short mile to the south of Cowbridge, to which smart little town it is properly a kind of sub... ...ange of moun- tains to it, if even one: certainly the central Mountains of Wales do gradually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it... ...ually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it; but on the south are no mountains, not even land, only the Bristol Channel, and far of... ...ligently surveying his ground;— returned for his family, who were still in Wales but ready to move, in the beginning of August; took them immedi- atel... ...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...

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... by Mark Twain Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From t... ...t every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wa... ...revellers making merry around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, who lay lapped in silks and s... ... the king my father hath taken from the monks and given for a home for ever for poor and forsaken chil- dren, and new-named it Christ’s Church. Right ... ...on to saloon, “The prince hath gone mad, the prince hath gone mad!” Soon every saloon, every marble hall, had its groups of glittering lords and ladie... ...estly together in whispers, and every face had in it dismay. Presently a splendid official came marching by these groups, making solemn proclama- tion... ...s the last linen-draper’s shop on the bridge, let him tarry there till the others be come, then will we flee into Southwark together.” At this moment ... ...s a line of bonfires stretching as far as one could see, up and down the Thames; London Bridge was illumi- nated; Southwark Bridge likewise; the entir... ...hen such a shout went up— “Long live the true King!” For five minutes the air quaked with shouts and the crash of musical instruments, and was white w...

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... James Coleridge, of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Colonel of the South Devon Vol- unteers. He was the eldest of the numerous family of the R... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ... work and play, enjoying the pageantry of the christening of the Prince of Wales, and cheering himself hoarse and half-fran- tic when the King of Prus... ...anner of saying the prayers was exceedingly good: his voice very sweet and musical; without seeming loud, it was fully audible, and gave assurance of ... ... and seriously considered of offering himself to assist in the work in the Southern Hemisphere. He discussed the matter seriously with his friend, Mr.... ...which had been taken in hand by a Scot- tish Presbyterian Mission; but the groups which seem to form 100 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the third fr... ...in those private classes that he exercised such wonderful in- fluence; his musical voice, his holy face, his gentle manner, all helping doubtless to i... ... between Sir William Wiseman and Sir John Young, the Governor of New South Wales, resulting in an offer from the latter of a grant of land on Norfolk ...

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... ‘There you’re wrong; nor wouldn’t be.’ ‘What’s that?’ was the gentleman’s musical inquiry. ‘That’s flat, as you was half a minute ago,’ the man re- j... ... the infinitely little while threading his way to a haberdasher’s shop for new white waistcoats. Under the shadow of the rep- resentative statue of Ci... ...,’ exclaimed Mr. Radnor. ‘He informed me that Mrs. Burman has heard of the new mansion.’ ‘My place at Lakelands?’ Mr. Radnor’s clear-water eyes harden... ...ld like to think of the lengthened tide-flux of pedestrian citizens facing South-westward, as being drawn by devout attraction to our nourishing lumin... ...as to meet the friends with whom her feelings were at home, among whom her musical gifts gave her station: they liked her for herself; they helped her... ...t the taint of gambling, a beneficent speculator. The Montgomery colony in South Af- rica, and his dealings with the natives in India, and his Rail- w... ...hey are called, can’t and won’t forgive injuries; look at Ireland, look at Wales, and the Keltic Scot. Have you heard them talk? It happened in the ye... ...g may have helped; he had it from Fenellan; and he was among the principal groups, claiming or making acquaintances, as a lawyer should do. The Concer... ...grey for flights through enchantment. Cottage-chil- dren, wherever seen in groups, she wreathed above with an- gels to watch them. Her mind all the wh...