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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. ... .... Moonlight is its mortal enemy: conveniently for its predators, the squid casts a black and moving shadow. To fend off these risks, the squid emit... ...ed "quorum sensing". http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/ http://www.biolum.org/ Black Death AIDS has infected hitherto 42 million people, of whi... ...irst world war, in 1917, the US War Industries Board called on women to stop buying metal-rich corsets. Some 28,000 tons of metals were thus made av... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...pplied to the eyes. The head is smoked, dried, and cured. It is then washed and polished. http://www.guidebookwriters.com/authors/dominic/art... ...shtml Nobel Prizes The Nobel prizes are awarded on December 10. In 1911, the Polish-French scientist, Marie Curie, became the first person to... ...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... ...ovico Sforza, was used for target practice by invading French soldiers in 1499. The metal which was supposed to go into this work of art was molded ...
...2 The Dynamic of Infinite Pemuataions………………………………………………………...………5 Black Holes and Nothingness………………………………………………………………………….7 Dimensions a... ...Condition of Actual Infinity cannot exist inside something that is finite. Black Holes and Nothingness The energy sucked into a black hole is n... ... 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... ...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... ...the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Because t... ...eparate one wavelength from another. All stringed instruments with frets use metal bars as buffers to separate one particular wavelength from the re... ...preserving and maintaining your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s oak table lovingly for twenty fucki... ...e you die, that table will not care one speck about all the hours you wasted polishing it. This is the one-sided, imbalanced insanity of living th...
...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 ... ...sale is a convoluted, multi-layered, highly complex process. It is not a "black box", better left unattended to. It is the same deadly sin all over ... ...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... ...r audiences. Trade unions, certain educational institutions and religious groups commenced "public radio" broadcasts. The Commercial Phase When t... ...user friendly and less reliable (predictable) than television - less of a black box - its potential (and its future) is limited. Television attracts ... ...ch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have texts in Old French, Polish, Russian, Romanian, and Farsi in progress. I wonder if we should co... ... your work. But before that, get an editor or publisher who will help you polish your work until it shines brightly enough to gain popularity once i... ...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... ... the Sabines(TM). He became an artist, clad in leather, he started a heavy-metal band called The Garage(TM). It was then that he discovered TV, so he...
...f their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than pape... ...w face; and above it a cocked hat, that shone so, I thought it was made of polished tin (it may have been that or oilskin), hand- somely laced with bl... ...f polished tin (it may have been that or oilskin), hand- somely laced with black worsted, and ornamented with a shin- ing gold cord. A little squat bo... ...rniture; and, finally, an air of extremely respectable pov- erty. A jolly, black-eyed, yellow-shawled Dulcinea conducted us through the apartment, and... ...wing and reading, and the blind were, for the most part, set to perform on musical instruments, and got up a con- cert for the visitors. It was then w... ...ible, that even as blind beggars they could hardly get a livelihood in the musical way. 15 Thackeray HENCE WE WERE DRIVEN to the huge palace of Neces... ...ion and liveliness as I have never witnessed before. And the effect of the groups of multitudinous actors in this busy cheerful drama is heightened, a... ...s glittering and pure as the Temple of Victory; or a discourse of Plato as polished and calm as yonder mystical portico of the Erechtheum:what treasur... ...in. But to manufacture European iron into pikes and helmets was a waste of metal:in the shape of piston-rods and furnace-pokers it is irresistible; an...
...r other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered d...
...ams, which give transient pleasure, and leave wounds that rankle long, the groups thin out, the mere look- ers on go away, and the waxlights burn down... ...ill be understood, and will not risk staking your gold pieces against base metal. Here, again, secrets neatly betrayed, and talk, light or deep, play ... ...r a devil that she owes the graceful undulation which plays under her long black silk cape, stirs its lace frill, sheds an airy balm, and what I shoul... ....” “T o be such a woman, is it not necessary to be very clever?” asked the Polish Count. “It is necessary to have great taste,” replied the Princesse ... ...e of trifles, the practice of manoeuvring, the important small things, the musical tones and harmony of coloring, the angelic bedevilments and innocen... ...those I came across, happily towards evening I perceived a wretched little Polish farm, of which nothing can give you any idea unless you have seen th... ...s, but prodigiously powerful, active, and clean-limbed as a greyhound. His black hair in abundant curls showed up his complexion, as white as a woman’...
... woman with such a load of diamonds?? Or, after firing off some smart epigrams, which give transient pleasure, and leave wounds that rankle long, the groups thin out, the mere lookers on go away, and the waxlights burn down to the sconces....
...o the eating of ices, and drinking of cool liquids, later in the day; shoe blacks were busy on the bridges; shops were open; carts and waggons clatter... ...ille, leaning out of a low garret window, watching the drying of his newly polished shoes on the little parapet outside (if a gentleman), or the airin... ...in a corner of the yard by himself, with a shovel hat upon his head, and a black gown on his back, and a book in one hand, and an umbrella in the othe... ...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... ... 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 ... ...; dim with the smoke of incense; costly in treasure of precious stones and metals, glit tering through iron bars; holy with the bodies of deceased sa... ...es of wrought steel and iron, to make the gallant horse a monster cased in metal scales; and one spring weapon (easy to be carried in the breast) desi... ...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... ...t jackets; quaint old stomachers, more wicked than the smart est bodices; Polish pelisses, strained and tight as ripe goose berries; tiny Greek caps...
...out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ‘four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye;’ ‘Which pye being open’d they began to sing’ (... ...ted in your wish To supersede all warblers here below, And be the only Blackbird in the dish; And then you overstrain yourself, or so, And... ...its hold, The purest ore enclosed the whitest skin That e’er by precious metal was held in. Around, as princess of her father’s land, A like... ... Like a backgammon board the place was dotted With whites and blacks, in groups on show for sale, Though rather more irregularly spotted: So... ...ess ‘Sufficiently’ (he said) ‘his approbation Of all the customs of this polish’d nation. ‘For his own share—he saw but small objection To s... ...was not; a sort of style that ‘s grown Extremely common in this age, whose metal The devil may decompose, but never settle: I think it may be of... ... Achilles’ self was not more grim and gory Than thousands of this new and polish’d nation, Whose names want nothing but — pronunciation. Still ... ... point of heaven, There moans a strange unearthly sound, which then Is musical—a dying accent driven Through the huge arch, which soars and si... ...sions: The ‘Lasciami’s,’ and quavering ‘Addio’s!’ Amongst our own most musical of nations; With ‘Tu mi chamas’s’ from Portingale, To soothe ...
...case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....
...rted it for the neighbouring school-room, and yielded it up to the dead. The very Com- mandments had been shouldered out of their places, in the bring... ...ons, and to the gratitude of relations and friends, made me very anxious to see some of those letters. I was presently seated before a shipwreck of pa... ...boys and young men among us; we had also many girls and young women. To represent, however, that we did not include a very great number, and a very fa... ...hed as rear- guard. Sharp-eye, I soon had occasion to remark, had a skil- ful and quite professional way of opening doors—touched latches delicately, ... ...e hostelry which no man possessed of a penny was ever known to pass in warm weather. Before its entrance, are certain pleasant, trimmed limes; likewis... ... were comfortable things to see in conjunction with the toll- keeper; also his brisk wakefulness was excellent company when he rattled the change of h... ...the best, had felt as wicked as a Resurrec- tion Man. Every article was blue and furry when brought into his rooms, and he had had, in a murderous and... ...dfather before him.’ Says Chips, ‘I like the copper, and I like the nails, and I don’t mind the pot, but I don’t like the rat.’ Says the Devil, fierce... ... I could only impute it to the beating of the ship. I am not enough of a seaman to describe the manoeuvres by which we were saved, but they made the S...
...................................... 221 Chapter 2.5.XII. Procession of the Black Breeches. .............................................................. ...nal Guards. Also it has to hear not only of Brissot and his Friends of the Blacks, but by and by of a whole St. Domingo blazing skyward; blazing in li... ...y and by Anaxagoras Chaumette, one already descries: mellifluous in street-groups; not now a sea-boy on the high and giddy mast: a mellifluous tribune... ... Pauw, Recherches sur les Grecs, &c.) The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but w... ...e glad people, with moisture and fire in their eyes, ‘spontaneously formed groups, and swore one another, ’ (Newspapers (in Hist. Parl. iv. 445.)—and ... ... he was sneered at by cold worldlings; but did sneer again, being a man of polished sarcasm; and moved to and fro persuasive in coffeehouse and soiree... ... some long-drawn wail of music, and strange new clangour of trombones, and metal- lic dirge-voice; amid the infinite hum of men. In the Church of Sain... ... this gilding; it was he who ground these lus- tres, Venetian mirrors; who polished this inlaying, this veneering and or-moulu; and made it, by rubbin... ...rim melody and rhythm; into his Hymn or March of the Marseillese: luckiest musical-composition ever promulgated. The sound of which will make the bloo...
...zard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full grown snowflakes—go... ...eeches tied with ribbons, and gaiters or stockings. One peculiarity of his black clothes and of his black stockings, be they silk or worsted, is that ... ...w, and the sun, so red but yielding so little heat, and the ice, dark like metal where the skaters and sliders had brushed the snow away. There was a ... ...He has shown nothing but his shell. As easily might the tone of a delicate musical instrument be inferred from its case, as the tone of Mr. T ulkingho... ... to Allegory and meditation. By this time the news has got into the court. Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts o... ...n, and the hall was blocked up by a grand piano, a harp, and several other musical instru ments in cases, all in progress of removal, and all looking... ...e pupils, “will look leniently on the deficiencies here. We do our best to polish—polish—polish!” He sat down beside me, taking some pains to sit on t... ...s illustrious model on the sofa. And really he did look very like it. “T o polish—polish—polish!” he repeated, taking a pinch of snuff and gently flut... ... that he thought it much the same as doing it. If he had had those bits of metal or thin paper to which mankind attached so much importance to put in ...
... at her. Her face was pale and her eyes were very dark; her hair hung down black as ebony against her white cheeks; her lips were full and red. Beyond... ...nd here in 28 A Set of Six the old patriarchal head, white as silver, the black eyes humorously twinkled—“if we are all brothers, all the women are n... ...e I had before me a kind of rare monster. It is true that this monster was polished and in a sense even ex- quisite. His beautiful unruffled manner wa... ...lusion that there must be some untrustworthy elements amongst the Lon- don groups. And I came over to see what could be done quietly. “My first step w... ...ll. At the Marañon he lived apart from the station, in a small shed with a metal roof and straw walls, which he called mon atelier. He had a work-benc... ....” Meantime, Lieut. Feraud, splendid in his new dol- man and the extremely polished boots of his calling, sat on a chair within a foot of the couch, o... ... that it dated from the time they were holding garrison in Strasbourg. The musical surgeon shook his head at that. It went much farther back, he thoug... ...hed out sweet sounds mingled with bursts of brassy roar, sudden clashes of metal, and grave, vibrating thuds. As he walked on, all these noises combin... ...ut the band had broken up, and were entering the alley in small conversing groups. The Count sat up straight and tried to think calmly of what had hap...
...ls of which a steam en gine is made? Young Man. Iron, steel, brass, white metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a ... ...nd? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.M. No—in ores. O.M. Are the metals suddenly deposited in the ores? Y.M. No—it is the patient work of co... ... and preaches Christ and Him crucified every day and every night to little groups of half civilized foreign paupers who scoff at him. But he rejoices ... ... father. He had a young sister with a remarkable voice—he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self supporting might be grat... ...ast and weep, utter ing no word. Did my mind stop to mourn with that nude black sister of mine? No—it was far away from that scene in an instant, and... ... call the children back and hear them romp again with George—that peerless black ex slave and children’s idol who came one day—a flitting stranger—to ... ...ng to remain one. T raining, experi ence, association, can temporarily so polish him, improve Mark T wain 91 him, exalt him that people will think h... ..., and had secured lodg ings and opera seats months in advance. I am not a musical critic, and did not come here to write essays about the operas and ... ...how to translate entrails. Caesar Augustus’s education received this final polish. All through his life, whenever he had poultry on the menu he saved ...
...er thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the property of the king.” —Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond un- errin... ...re the cheapest, if not the cheeriest inns. Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a ... ...eing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I con- cluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, wh... ...of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had anywhere.... ... 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... ...eyond which few mortals will go. Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and ever when most ob- scu... ...eel; the jagged edge galls me so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull, mine; the sort that needs no helmet 167 Herman Me... ...ING and weaving away when I started at a sound so strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my ha... ...Here we go again. This wooden mallet is the cork, and I’m the professor of musical glasses—tap, tap!” (Ahab to himself.) “There’s a sight! There’s a s...
...cific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 112 The Blacksmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 113 The ... ...er thrown ashore or caught near the coasts, are the property of the king.” Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring ... ...eing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, whic... ...of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had anywhere.... ... 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... ...yond which few mortals will go. Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun metal, stands his mast head in Trafalgar Square; and even when most obscure... ...eel; the jagged edge galls me so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull, mine; the sort that needs no helmet in the most br... ...ing and weaving away when I started at a sound so strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my ha... ...Here we go again. This wooden mallet is the cork, and I’m the professor of musical glasses — tap, tap!” (Ahab to himself.) “There’s a sight! There’s a...
...nsinuates dishonour, Mr. Beltham.’ ‘Damn your fine speeches, and keep your blackguardly hands off that boy,’ the squire thundered. ‘Mind, if you take ... ... smell of dark corners, in a street where all the house-doors were painted black, and shut with a bang. Italian organ-men and milk- men paraded the st... ...apid, never high or low, and then a slide of similar tones all round, —not musical, but catching and incessant,— gave me an idea that I had fallen upo... ...st the male half of our county, William. And a damned good test of a man’s metal, I say it is! What are you going to do to-day?’ ‘I am going to get dr... ... lovely view,’ said I. ‘Lovely view,’ she repeated. She ran on in the most musical tongue, to my thinking, ever heard: ‘ And see my little pensioners’... ...e, intoxicated me. And the statue was superb-horse and rider in new bronze polished by sunlight. ‘It is life-like! it is really noble! it is a true Pr... ... I knew it was my father, but my father with death and strangeness, earth, metal, about him; and his voice was like a human cry contending with earth ... ...ys, and others, all bending to roses, to admire, smell, or pluck. Charming groups of ladies were here and there; and T emple whispered as we passed th... ...han myself, a handsome, intelligent, high-spirited girl, rather wanting in polish, and perhaps in the protecting sense of decorum. She was well-born, ...
...ld “Heart of Darkness” be put off; for the practi- cal reason that Mr. Wm. Blackwood having requested me to write something for the No. M of his maga-... ...nd broken, tormented and abrupt; the sea smooth and inviting with its easy polish of con- tinuous surface to wanderings facile and endless. There was ... ...her head had swung slowly to the west- ward and the end of her slender and polished jib- boom, projecting boldly beyond the graceful curve of the bow,... ...hisper of the sea, that slipped past in vanishing bubbles along the smooth black-painted sides of his craft. What passed in such moments of thoughtful... ...n clock tick distinctly, in pul- sating beats, as though a little heart of metal behind the dial had been started into sudden palpitation. “A gunboat!... ...ds, sitting in a row on the stern settee, looked very splendid with costly metals and flawed jewels. The talk conducted with hearty friendship on Ling... ...as the man. Swift and trim she flitted amongst the islands of little known groups. She could be descried afar from lonely headlands, a white speck tra... ...thrown in for each speci- men—marked to suit your re-quirements. Sup- pose—musical instruments, this side up with care— how’s that for your taste? No,... ...rs. Travers lowered the glass. All at once behind her back she heard a low musical voice beginning to pour out incomprehen- sible words in a tone of p...
...so that the damsel’s colour distinctly counted for dark. She became nearly black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian ... ...t, as far as I know. Ormont’s not likely to be hooked by garrison women or blacks. Those coloured women—some of ours too—send the nose to the clouds; ... ...ything you have done for us. It will stop the Memoirs, or else give them a polish. Your young friend has made me laugh over stuff taken for literature... ...hort space until their fate should be decided, were a story sharply cut on metal. Several times she surprised herself in an interest- ing pursuit of t... ... be stubborn to resist a softness. Now she cared no more for the hackneyed musical word; friendship was her desire. If it is not life’s poetry, it is ... ... old housewives in doorways, gaffer goodman meeting his crony on the path, groups of boys and girls. She would take the girls, Matthew Weyburn the boy... ... 250 Lord Ormont and His Aminta ‘You may be feeling tired presently.’ The musical sincerity of her ‘Oh no, not I!’ sped through his limbs; he had a w...
...uld think him a most elegant scholar.’ ‘And a deep one. He has studied and polished his acquire- ments to the utmost. I assure you, Winifred, I mean t... ...—and light streaming from it. ‘Here is your home, Albinia,’ said that deep musical voice that she loved the better for the subdued melancholy of the t... ...eet her. She alone inherited her father’s fine straight profile, and large black eyes, but she had the heaviness of feature that some- times goes with... ...lexions. The white frock did not become her brown neck and arms, her thick black hair was arranged in too womanly a manner, and her head and face look... ...ine quoted somewhere else. In such a controversy, lightened by perpetually polished poems, by a fair amount of modern literature, select college frien... ...our guests.’ Sophy gave a black look, and she retreated, but presently the groups coalesced, and Maria Drury and Sophy ran out to call Genevieve into ... ... emerged on the bowling-green, where stood the two bright targets, and the groups of archers, whose shafts, for the most part, flew far and wide. ‘Whe... ...II CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XVIII IT WA S A BEAUTIFUL July afternoon, the air musical with mid- summer hum, the flowers basking in the sunshine, the turf... ... tion, renewed the battle of consistency with a whole broad- side of heavy metal. When the diners-out came home, they found the war rag- ing as hotly ...
...tings took place here and there; a conversation was begun; others arrived; groups were formed; little impromptu receptions were held be- fore the chop... ... her hair that one’s attention was most attracted. Heaps and heaps of blue-black coils and braids, a royal crown of swarthy bands, a veritable sable t... ...- ing poise, innocent, confiding, almost infantile. She was dressed all in black, very modest and plain. The effect of her pale face in all this contr... ...back room, cooking some sort of a meal over an alcohol stove. Zerkow was a Polish Jew—curiously enough his hair was fiery red. He was a dry, shrivelle... ...ery in- stant he seemed to feel the generous solid weight of the crude fat metal in his palms. The glint of it was constantly in his eyes; the jangle ... ...- 33 Frank Norris denly flashed in Maria’s palm. There it was, the virgin metal, the pure, unalloyed ore, his dream, his consuming desire. His finger... ...e fury of it. “Go on, go on,” he whispered; “let’s have it all over again. Polished like a mirror, hey, and heavy? Yes, I know, I know. A punch-bowl w... ...re by the orchestra, after which came “The Gleasons, in their mirth-moving musical farce, entitled ‘McMonnigal’s Court-ship.’” This was to be followed... ...ter this came a great array of other “artists” and “specialty performers,” musical wonders, acro- bats, lightning artists, ventriloquists, and last of...