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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. ... ...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... ...ium- size enterprises, though it maintained control of the finance, transportation, heavy industry, and foreign trade sectors (the "commanding heigh... ...shtml Nobel Prizes The Nobel prizes are awarded on December 10. In 1911, the Polish-French scientist, Marie Curie, became the first person to... ...n the human body contain mitochondria. Mitochondria are more abundant in cells with heavy energy requirements, like muscle cells. A third type ... ...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 ...

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...Instead of fame, God has blessed me through my publishing houses and writers groups with some of the dearest friends I’ve ever known. Instead of the e... ...ves and our accomplishments as writers, a proper view of ourselves is like a heavy curtain riddled with holes: it allows the sunshine to shine through... ... What a wonderful hope. What a creative commission. Many of the creative and musical arts had their start in religion. For eons, humanity has shown it... ...ead to treasures in this lifetime. There’s a real pressure on new writers to polish their work, join critique groups and quickly submit, as if they ar... .... There’s a real pressure on new writers to polish their work, join critique groups and quickly submit, as if they aren’t validated as writers without... ...of everyone and every idea out there, you’re labeled intolerant. It can be a heavy burden, especially to a writer when he or she is trying to paint a ... ...her side of the desk. As I sought good writers to fill my content quota, and polished their work so little would prevent readers from getting the info... ...he grocery store, the drugstore, the gift shops and restaurants have turning metal racks of books, if 132 not entire rows of them. Can you envision a...

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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... ...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... ...s to 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. Bec... ...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... ...s to 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. Bec... ...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...

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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 ... ...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... ...cluding site maintenance and customer and visitor services. Despite these heavy outlays, site designers are constantly criticized for lack of creati... ... users are still cautious. Studies discovered that no user, no matter how heavy, has consistently re-visited more than 200 sites, a minuscule number... ...r audiences. Trade unions, certain educational institutions and religious groups commenced "public radio" broadcasts. The Commercial Phase When t... ...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...

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...is custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bou...

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...the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; ... ...vercome by the heat of the room, the cheap tobacco, and the effects of his heavy meal, he dropped off to sleep. Late in the afternoon his canary bird,... ...tings took place here and there; a conversation was begun; others arrived; groups were formed; little impromptu receptions were held be- fore the chop... ...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...

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...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...

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...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... ...way faintly into the immea- surable distance. The ship went rolling over a heavy, swelter- ing, calm sea. The breeze was a warm and soft one; quite di... ...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... ...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... ...inhabit hand- some stone palaces, with balconies and projecting windows of heavy carved stone. The lights and shadows, the cries and stenches, the fru... ...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...

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... 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....

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...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 ... ....” “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 ... ...canopy of a delicious dream, which will last perhaps after Sleep, with his heavy finger, has opened the ivory gates of the temple of dreams. “The lady... ...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...

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...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... ... whiteness, as contrasted with the brown rocks, or the sombre, deep, dull, heavy green of the olive tree; and the puny size, and little slow walk of t... ...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... ... the middle of the chamber, describing, with her sunburnt arms, a wheel of heavy blows. Thus it ran round! cries Goblin. Mash, mash, mash! An endless ... ... 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...

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...e court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained glass windo... ...erybody else quickly van ishes too. A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks; the little mad old woman... ...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 ...

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...e court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained glass windo... ...erybody else quickly van ishes too. A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks; the little mad old woman... ...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 ...

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...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... ...is a trifling punishment; this breaks the hearts of his family— which is a heavy one. They comfortably jail and feed a wife beater, and leave his inn... ...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... ...ur Italians in peace. Today four of the ringleaders have been sentenced to heavy punishment of a public sort—and are become local heroes, by consequen... ..., 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 ...

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...uch vigour Had pour’d upon him for the last half hour, Quick, thick, and heavy—as a thunder shower. At first he tried to hammer an excuse, T... ...e Divided in twelve books; each book containing, With love, and war, a heavy gale at sea, A list of ships, and captains, and kings reigning,... ...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 ...

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...r, where good account was taken of it. So tremendous had the force of the sea been when it broke the ship, that it had beaten one great ingot of gold,... ...loured and yellow, looking passively upward from the pillow; the haggard mouth a little dropped, the hand outside the coverlet, so dull and indifferen... ...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...

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...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,... ... in it had been a wavy and attenuated gold wire. His mouth was lost in the heavy moustache; his nose was straight, short, slightly blunted at the end;... ...the flame of the stars. There was no sound along the brig’s decks, and the heavy shadows that lay on it had the aspect, in that silence, of secret pla... ...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...

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...e girls watched him hold back his face—the boughs pricked him. “Is it very heavy?” asked Millicent. “Ay!” he replied, with a little grunt. Then the p... ... just to complain of their freakish, unusual characters. Only en masse the metal is all Britannia. In an ugly little mining town we find the odd ones ... ...stern, prophet-like meditation. As a matter of fact, he was asleep after a heavy meal. Across, seated on a pouffe on the other side of the fire, was a... ...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... ...lew his nose vigor- ously on a large white silk handkerchief, and began to polish 44 Aaron’s Rod his pince nez. Then he turned, and they all bundled ... ... 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... ...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... ...ons. Aaron came forward and examined the orders, one after the other. Just metal playthings of curious shiny silver and gilt and enamel. Heavy the Bri... ...self did his little share of shoe-licking, and swallowed the taste of boot-polish with a grimace, knowing what he was about. The dinner wound gaily to...

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...igs — the light reaching him through a leafless intervening hedge — and the metallic curve of his sheep crook shone silver bright in the same abounding... ...pt sweeping the stack and dislodging all fiery particles. On the ground the groups of villagers were still occupied in doing all they could to keep dow... ...e upper rooms, the main staircase to which was of hard oak, the balusters, heavy as bed posts, being turned and moulded in the quaint fashion of their... ...heir anticipations with a high stretched neck and oblique eye. Among these heavy yeomen a feminine figure glided, the single one of her sex that the ro... ...d the surface of the snow, till it shone in the red eastern light with the polish of marble; how, in some portions of the slope, withered grass bents,... ...RERS threshing floor in the centre, formed of thick oak, black with age and polished by the beating of flails for many generations, till it had grown as... ... Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose vertues were as metals in a mine. The difference between love and respect was markedly show... ...there cannot be, and never were, two opinions. It has been observed in the musical circles of Weatherbury and its vicinity that this melody, at the en... ...a steady smack of drops upon the fallen leaves under the boughs was almost musical in its soothing regularity. lt seemed better FANNY’S REVENGE 255 t...

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...worth half a franc within the confines of Amiens. 7 H G Wells But a large heavy piece of exploded shell that had been thrust very urgently upon my at... ... onset of wear, and Italy is the most fortunate land in the world for road metal; her mountains are solid road metal, and in this Venetian plain you n... ...war tourist skirts precipices and takes hairpin bends upon tracks of loose metal not an inch too broad for the opera- tion, or it floats for a moment ... ...usy, through which there is a perpetual coming and going of processions of heavy vans to the railway sidings. One dodges past a monstrous blue-black g... ...” at all. One finds that the apparent subaltern is really a musician, or a musical critic, or an Egyptologist, or a solicitor, or a cloth manufacturer... ... shaped, cut, fitted with 74 War and the Future copper bands, calibrated, polished, varnished…. Then we go on to another system of machines in which ... ...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... .... 2 2 2 2 2 In the complex structure of the modern community there are two groups or strata or pockets in which the impulse of social obligation, the ... ... autonomous Po- land, with Cracow, Danzig, and Posen brought into the same Polish-speaking ring-fence with W arsaw. What everyone who has looked into ...

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..., which was attempted after this manner:—They seeing the good lady sad and heavy (as one that well knew, by her other handling, that her death was not... ...orbidden ground, without other impediment than the passive resistance of a heavy oak door moving on rusty hinges.” They stood now in an avenue oversha... ...y wainscoted with dark, foreign wood of a brown colour, and bearing a high polish, said to have been brought from the Western Indies, and to have been... ... the ante-chamber was sup- plied by a huge chandelier of the same precious metal. The floor was covered with a Spanish foot-cloth, or carpet, on which... ...edle-work, supplied the place of chairs in this apartment, which contained musical instruments, embroidery frames, and other articles for ladies’ past... ... an armed Moor, who held in his left arm a round buckler of silver, highly polished, interposed betwixt his breast and the light, which was thus brill... ..., that as soon as I should commence the grand work of the transmutation of metals, the explosion should transmute the vault and all in it into a heap ... ...n one party entered and traversed the Pleas- ance. But they were in joyous groups of four or five persons together, laughing and jesting in their own ... ...over, but the men, still habited in their masking suits, stood together in groups, like the in- habitants of a city who have been just startled by som...

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... Wormeley DEDICA DEDICA DEDICA DEDICA DEDICATION TION TION TION TION T o a Polish Lady. Daughter of an enslaved land, angel through love, witch throug... ...his life for hers. The poor fellow, whose eyes were hollowed beneath their heavy lids like the touch- holes of a cannon, whose head overweighted his b... ...ca, and aban- don his own country where persecution was beginning to lay a heavy hand on the soldiers of Napoleon. He went to Havre accompanied by Dum... ...empts at self-instruction came a phenomenon not uncommon to natures with a musical vo- cation; Modeste composed, as far as a person ignorant of the la... ...ly, for at least a month, Modeste had warbled the songs of night- ingales, musical rhapsodies whose poetry and meaning had roused the attention of her... ...ir delivery; which numbers the houses, prints the tax of every tenant on a metal register at the doors (after verifying its particulars), and will soo... ...n public unless punctiliously dressed in black, with spotless gloves, well-polished boots, and otherwise as well apparelled as a lawyer. Imagine the e... ...tscha,” said the duke, smiling. When the people on the quays, attracted in groups by the 165 Balzac splendor of the royal equipage, saw the funny spe... ...her suitors, after the manner of those who dig into the earth in search of metals, coal, tufa, or water. “I shall never,” she said, the evening before...

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...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...e morass, was this man’s remorse when, on leaving Westport, I gave him the heavy golden perquisite, which my mother (unaware of the tricks he had prac... ...ocracy, and standing on a dif- ferent level of culture as to intellect, of polish as to manners, and of interests as to social objects, a notion at al... ... and disdainful English nobility—all so 33 Thomas de Quincey rich, all so polished in manner, all so punctiliously correct in the ritual of bienséanc... ...ws travel in those days, when scientific journals were few, and roads were heavy—that ten years later than this period I knew a case, namely, the case... ...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... ...ers of the Mine (as I am accustomed to call them), or those who dig up the metal of truth, are seldom fitted to be also laborers of the Mint—that is, ... ... are seldom fitted to be also laborers of the Mint—that is, to work up the metal for current use. Besides which, it must not be forgotten that Mr. Ric...