In this issue: Re: "Devils" Re: "Devils" Pushkin poem OT: Hitch centennial Re: Pushkin poem Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic Euphemism Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic -Reply Today in History - April 30 Re: Euphemism Re: Euphemism Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic -Reply Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic Re: Today in History - April 30 the Ruskin Marriage Re: OT: Any suggestions? 1930's Minor British Novelists Re: OT: Any suggestions? 1930's Minor British Novelists brief "out of lurk mode" 2 cents Piltdown Follies/Quatermass/Shakespeare Today in History - May 3 RE: brief "out of lurk mode" 2 cents Re: RE: brief "out of lurk mode" 2 cents Re: Today in History - May 3 Re: Today in History - May 3 Today in History - May 4 Re: Today in History - May 4 Titanic on the Discovery Channel Today in History - May 5 -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:56:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: "Devils" Keen-o Robert! Thanks. phoebe
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:15:50 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: "Devils" Bob C., Thanks for sharing that wonderful Pushkin poem. It reminds me of the Pushkin story "The Snowstorm" on Gaslight, at http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/snow.htm. This is a bit premature, since Stephen has not completed the page yet, however, he has been working on a fantastic Napoleonic poetry page which includes a small piece by Pushkin. Take a look at http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/Poems1.htm Patricia
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:21:17 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Pushkin poem >Storm-clouds hurtle, storm-clouds hover; >Flying snow is set alight >By the moon whose form they cover; >Blurred the heavens, blurred the night. >Swarms of devils come to rally, >Hurtle in the boundless height; >Howling fills the whitening valley, >Doleful screeching rends my heart... > > No no! wait a hold it! that can't be all of the poem! where's the rest of the story? Linda Anderson
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:54:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: OT: Hitch centennial
This is the centennial year of the birthday of screen giant, Alfred
Hitchcock. To celebrate, the New York Times website for today has
put up a good many articles and video clips (requires RealPlayer).
The URL is
http://www.nytimes.com/
Bob C.
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:58:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Pushkin poem
This is the point at which a beautiful angel comes down, dispels the
devils, and leads our travelers to safety. But, then, the fragment
was itself a distinct poetic form for the Romantics, and perhaps
Rushkin could not, after all, do justice to angels.
Bob C.
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Linda Anderson wrote:
> >Storm-clouds hurtle, storm-clouds hover;
> >Flying snow is set alight
> >By the moon whose form they cover;
> >Blurred the heavens, blurred the night.
> >Swarms of devils come to rally,
> >Hurtle in the boundless height;
> >Howling fills the whitening valley,
> >Doleful screeching rends my heart...
> >
> >
>
> No no! wait a hold it! that can't be all of the poem! where's the rest
> of the story?
>
>
> Linda Anderson
>
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lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 08:00:24 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic Bob Champ wrote: >The following poem I picked up from a site devoted to classical Russian >literature. It has about it that aura of fear that being lost in a >snowstorm stirs up in one. And of course a nineteenth-century Russian >must have felt it keenly. > >This poem reminds me a little of Goethe's "The Erl-king." It reminds me of Hans Andersen's "The Snow-Queen." (Brrrrr.) > > But, then, the fragment >was itself a distinct poetic form for the Romantics, and perhaps >Rushkin could not, after all, do justice to angels. I am forever indebted to Bob for introducing that heretofore neglected figure in our study of the Nature of Gothic -- the poet RUSHKIN! What do we know about him, other than his confusion concerning the anatomy of women - and angels? Carroll
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:58:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic
Carroll wrote,
<I am forever indebted to Bob for introducing that heretofore
<neglected figure in our study of the Nature of Gothic -- the poet
<RUSHKIN!
Sorry, that should have been "Pushkin." Rushkin was the name of
a famous art critic--John Rushkin, I believe--who wrote a novel
about a nineteenth-century jewel heist on the Mediterranean
called _The Stones of Venice_. Rushkin was married for a brief
time to a young woman named Euphemia Gray but was so scandalized
by her normality that he ran off to Europe with his ma and pa.
Thereafter he couldn't even say her name but referred to her
indirectly, leading to the creation of the term "euphemism."
Actually, we have read Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" on Gaslight
in the past and discovered what an interesting life he led. You
know that a man has been up to more than playing tiddlewinks when
he gets killed in a duel. It's too bad that _he_ didn't run into
Euphemia Gray.
Bob C.
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Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:03:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic
Obviously this should have been the Adriatic, not the Mediterranean.
>
> Sorry, that should have been "Pushkin." Rushkin was the name of
> a famous art critic--John Rushkin, I believe--who wrote a novel
> about a nineteenth-century jewel heist on the Mediterranean
> called _The Stones of Venice_.
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Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:09:23 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic Bob, the critic and aesthete in question is "Ruskin". I have a copy of The Stones of Venice somewhere. I've read it, and it seemed like pretentious claptrap at the time... Kiwi Carlisle carlislc(at)psychiatry.wustl.edu
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:13:58 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Euphemism I suspect Bob was joshing us when he said the word "euphemism" was coined because John Ruskin couldn't say the name of his wife, Euphemia. (Poor lass had body hair and other features of an adult female, which scared him to death. He was expecting her to look like a statue). Dear old Webster's says... Main Entry: eu?phe?mism Etymology: Greek euphEmismos, from euphEmos auspicious, sounding good, from eu- + phEmE speech, from phanai to speak -- more at BAN Date: circa 1681 Kiwi
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:33:59 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <pteter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic -Reply Bob C. wittily wrote: <<Rushkin was the name of a famous art critic--John Rushkin, I believe--who wrote a novel about a nineteenth-century jewel heist on the Mediterranean called _The Stones of Venice_. [...]Thereafter he couldn't even say her name but referred to her indirectly, leading to the creation of the term "euphemism." >> Ah, yes, Euphemism Rushkin! And speaking of that other bad boy, Pushkin: <<You know that a man has been up to more than playing tiddlewinks when he gets killed in a duel. It's too bad that _he_ didn't run into Euphemia Gray.>> I seem to recall there is a new bio out on Pushkin which looks very good. Has anyone read it yet? Patricia
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:31:30 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 30
1803
The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana
Purchase, which was sold by
France for $15 million.
1812
Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.
1849
Giuseppe Garabaldi, the Italian patriot and guerrilla leader,
repulses a French attack on
Rome.
1864
Work begins on the Dams along the Red River, which will allow
Union General
Nathaniel Banks' troops to sail over the rapids above
Alexandria, Louisiana.
1889
President George Washington's inauguration becomes the first
U.S. national holiday.
Born on April 30
1777
Karl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician who researched
infinitesimal calculus,
algebra and astronomy. He was also a pioneer in topology and
is considered one of the
world's great mathematician .
1858
Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, President Benjamin Harrison's first
lady.
1870
Franz Leh?r, operetta composer best known for The Marry Widow
and The Land of
Smiles.
1877
Alice B. Toklas, expatriate American who was associated with
Gertrude Stein and
wrote The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
1909
Juliana, queen of the Netherlands, who fled during the nazi
occupation. She abdicated in
favor of her daughter Beatrix.
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:59:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Euphemism
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Chris Carlisle wrote:
>
> Dear old Webster's says...
> Main Entry: eu?phe?mism
> Etymology: Greek euphEmismos, from euphEmos auspicious, sounding good, from
eu- +
> phEmE speech, from phanai to speak -- more at BAN
> Date: circa 1681
Thanks for the etymology, Kiwi. As I recall, "euphemism" actually entered
the language through a work by the Elizabethan writer John Lilly called
_Euphues_ (the kind of book that you would have to be an Elizabethan
to enjoy).
I believe that Euphemia Gray went on to a happier life with a painter;
John Ruskin probably died a virgin.
Bob C.
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lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:22:41 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Euphemism >I believe that Euphemia Gray went on to a happier life with a painter; >John Ruskin probably died a virgin. You are correct, she married PRB painter John Everett Millais, later a member of the Royal Academy. Her marriage was annulled due to non-consummation. Ruskin later courted a 14 year old, Rose (Toussant?), whom he waited patiently to come of age but she died too young for that marriage to come to any fruition. This was of some concern to John and Euphemia because her marriage was annulled not just to non-consummation but inability to consummate the wedding. If he had been able to consummate another marriage that could have, legally at that time, made her marriage void and her children illegitimate. It is assumed he died a virgin simply because of the legalities but it is more than likely true since old John was a bit of a prude. The Millais had quite a few children, 8? or more, on the other hand. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:37:38 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic -Reply Pushkin, Rushkin, it was a divine meeting. I couldn't resist combining Bob's angels with Effie Gray, who failed to be one. Pushkin's Eugen Onegin ends with a duel, so I suppose it's not surprising his author did. There was a lot of it going around. Does anyone know where I could find a copy of Pushkin's "Proserpina" in English? Carroll
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:18:15 -0700 From: Jack Kolb <kolb(at)UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: "Devils", Rushkin, the Nature of Gothic I'm so disappointed. I thought Rushkin was the cloned progeny of The Queen of Spades and The French Lieutenant's Woman. Sorry about that. Jack Kolb Dept. of English, UCLA kolb(at)ucla.edu >Carroll wrote, > ><I am forever indebted to Bob for introducing that heretofore ><neglected figure in our study of the Nature of Gothic -- the poet ><RUSHKIN! > >Sorry, that should have been "Pushkin." Rushkin was the name of >a famous art critic--John Rushkin, I believe--who wrote a novel >about a nineteenth-century jewel heist on the Mediterranean >called _The Stones of Venice_. Rushkin was married for a brief >time to a young woman named Euphemia Gray but was so scandalized >by her normality that he ran off to Europe with his ma and pa. >Thereafter he couldn't even say her name but referred to her >indirectly, leading to the creation of the term "euphemism." > >Actually, we have read Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" on Gaslight >in the past and discovered what an interesting life he led. You >know that a man has been up to more than playing tiddlewinks when >he gets killed in a duel. It's too bad that _he_ didn't run into >Euphemia Gray. > >Bob C.
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:27:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History - April 30 Another birthday: Eve Arden, the actress, best known as "Our Miss Brooks," born 1912. phoebe
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:34:57 -0500 From: Ann Hilgeman <eahilg(at)seark.net> Subject: the Ruskin Marriage For an interesting account of the Ruskin marriage, look at PARALLEL LIVES: FIVE VICTORIAN MARRIAGES by Phyllis Rose. The book also includes chapters on Jane and Thomas Carlyle, Harriet and John Stuart Mill, Catherine and Charles Dickens, and George Eliot and George Henry Lewes. Ann Hilgeman
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:36:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: John Woolley <jwoolley(at)dna420.mcit.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Any suggestions? 1930's Minor British Novelists
Some time ago, Kiwi asked:
> I need to find a good source of
> information about minor British novelists of the 1930's, more
> specifically the novelist Richard Oke, best known to posterity
> for several references to his novel, Frolic Wind, in Dorothy L. Sayers'
> Gaudy Night. Does anyone know where I might dig for information
> on this author?
His published works, as reported in _The New Cambridge
Bibliography of English Literature_ (Five volumes. Edited by
George Watson. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1969-
1977):
Frolic wind. 1929, New York 1930. Adapted as play by
R. Pryce, 1935.
Wanton boys. 1932.
India's coral strand. 1934.
The boy from Apulia. 1936. Biography of Frederick II.
Strange island story. 1939.
And this from _Who Was Who among English and European Authors,
1931-1949_ (Three volumes. Detroit : Gale Research, 1978.):
OKE, RICHARD (pen name): (Nigel Stansbury Millett;
Comte de Clerval de Sarcey-Beaupre/): author; b.
London, Eng., Oct., 1904; s. Henry Stansbury Millett
(Marquis de Sarcey-Beaupre [sic]) and Mary Frances
Pierrepont-Barnard; educ. Rugby Sch. DEGREE: B.A.
(Oxon); unmarried. AUTHOR: Frolic Wind, 1929.
General character of writing: fiction. HOME: Newland,
Wolvercote, Oxford, Eng.
There's an Australian guy named "Mervyn Richard Oke Millett",
who has to be a relative, and who wrote several books on
painting and Australian wildlife; but nothing else by or about
Oke or "Nigel Millett" appears anywhere I can find.
- -- Fr. John Woolley
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:48:19 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: OT: Any suggestions? 1930's Minor British Novelists Bless you, John!! I'm not the least bit surprised to learn 1) that the name was a pseudonym, and 2) that he was a French count (if I'm reading that correctly). He also wrote some short fiction about WWI, I have found, but I don't have the titles. Kiwi
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Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 13:13:19 -0700 From: "J. Alec West" <j(at)alecwest.com> Subject: brief "out of lurk mode" 2 cents Gaslighters, The recent "writing helps you breathe" posts bring to mind a recent article in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/focus/he/fohe0117_1.htm This involves "confessional" writing, however. Just wanted to say that the line between science and pseudoscience is sometimes a thin one. In the case of the Newsweek article, the psychological benefits of this type of writing were recently published in a study ... not published in some touchy-feely New Age magazine but in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Read it and form your own opinions. During the Gaslight-era, eugenic criminology (a theory that criminal tendencies were "inherited") was considered valid. Later, when the fields of sociology, psychology and psychiatry became more widely accepted, eugenic criminology theories fell into the disrepute of pseudoscience. Lately, however, some scientists are giving eugenic criminology a new look. Not that scientists believe that "inherited" criminal tendencies are a prime cause of crime ... but possibly one of several factors to be considered as part of the mix. Also during the Gaslight-era, eidetic memory (photographic memory) was considered a "real" thing. In the mid-1940s, Bell Labs conducted testing to see if they could find a methodology behind it. Since the results of this testing were largely inconclusive, and since (as with eugenic criminology) sociology, psychology and psychiatry were becoming more widely accepted as the be-all-end-all of cognitive science, eidetic memory fell largely into the disrepute of pseudoscience. However, in just this decade, molecular biologists have found a possible "biological" key to the mystery of eidetic memory ... that the hippocampal region of the brain produces 2 DNA sub-proteins ... one called CREB-activator, the other CREB-repressor ... and that if CREB-activator output is high, memory retention (to the point of "photographic" memory) in enhanced. Research into this is being conducted at several institutions though probably most known among them is Cold Spring Harbor Labs in New York: http://www.cshl.org I seriously doubt the desired end product of this research is to produce a race of hypermemoried humans <grin>. But, this research may find keys to therapies for those suffering from biologically-induced amnesia (ie., Alzheimer's Disease). So, while "writing helps you breathe" might seem like pseudoscience now, it might not be considered so fanciful a few years from now. In the same way "experts" were absolutely convinced that the sound barrier was called a "barrier" for a reason, modern-day experts may have to rethink their information as newer sciences such as molecular biology become more refined. P.S. When I was younger, I had photographic memory ability. I got into a discussion with a cognitive scientist about the phenomenon (a psychologist). She largely poo-pooed its existence. Hehe. Imagine being someone who has tasted a very nice apple ... being later told by an "expert" that apples don't exist. J. Alec
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Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 23:38:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Donna Goldthwaite <dgold(at)javanet.com> Subject: Piltdown Follies/Quatermass/Shakespeare Greetings, I thought fellow Gaslighters might be interested in the following site: http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html It's an extensive investigation of the Piltdown case, including extracts from original documents and the cases for and against various suspects in the forgery, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Teilhard de Chardin and others. Enjoy. And I'm rather chuffed this week. Just got copies of Quatermass 1 and 2 from Video Yesteryear (reverting to a discussion held several months ago). A very enjoyable weekend is in prospect. I do hope it's not too late to add my yea to Stephen's plan to e-text 19th century documents on the Shakespeare authorship question. Although I'm in the 'of course he wrote them' camp, I've always found the subject fascinating. The Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet site has a nice collection of links devoted to the Authorship "Problem": <her inverted commas, not mine> http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/life.htm#Authorship And the Atlantic Monthly's website, in its Flashbacks section, has articles from a 1991 issue on the question: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/shakes/webintr.htm Best, Donna Goldthwaite dgold(at)javanet.com
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 15:33:22 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - May 3
1855
Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American to be
admitted to the Bar in
Massachusetts.
1859
France declares war on Austria.
1862
Confederates abandon besieged Yorktown, Va.
1863
The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day, as
Confederate Geneneral Robert
E. Lee parries Union General Joseph T. Hooker's thrusts.
Battle of Salem Church, Va.
1865
President Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield,
Illinois.
Born on May 3
1898
Golda Mier, first woman Prime Minister of Israel.
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:52:29 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: brief "out of lurk mode" 2 cents Let me jump in briefly with another tuppence. "The Artist's Way," by Julia Cameron, recommends writing three pages of whatever comes to mind, first thing in the morning, to clear one's mind. The book is constructed like a 12-step program for recovering substance abusers, but I found the writing down of whatever came to mind, and forcing myself to write three pages (8-1/2 x 11) every day helped get me through a difficult period. Borges, I believe, said writing was a guided dream. It certainly helps you look inside, and if that is what you need, it's a good method. Thinking of the personal journals of some misguided souls, that have come to light in the last few years, writing doesn't always contain the monsters. Cheers, Jim Reading is the art of running away without leaving home. (Was on the placemat at the restaurant where I had lunch today.)
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:31:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: RE: brief "out of lurk mode" 2 cents In a message dated 5/3/99 10:53:49 PM, Jim wrote: <<Reading is the art of running away without leaving home. (Was on the placemat at the restaurant where I had lunch today.)>> Oh, I love that! Something to share with my students. The two per cent of them will get it. I've kept a journal since I was about ten. Lots of it is madness. I've wondered if I shouldn't burn it all... but it is fascinating to read. Wowie, the labyrinths I've stumbled around in! My dad kept a journal for at least sixty years. Now that he's not here, it is interesting to read them. Lots of everyday stuff, but the occasional soul of Daddy pops out and makes me smile. I think journal-keeping is good for the soul. lightly, lightly, phoebe
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:40:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zozie(at)aol.com
Subject: Re: Today in History - May 3
In a message dated 5/3/99 9:38:05 PM, you wrote:
<<1865
President Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield,
Illinois.
>>
A propos of Mr Lincoln... I have a CD called Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too: A
Collection of American Political Marches, Songs and Dirges. On it is a piece
composed by one T.M. Brown, written in 1865, called President Lincoln's
Funeral March (A Tribute to President Lincoln). It is an extraordinary piece
of music. Unusual and moving and strange. I share this with my second year
grad students, all of whom are young but very good musicians, and it always
blows their socks off.
Think I got the CD through BMG -- always looking for A/V things to dazzle my
classes. The CD is from Newpot Classic in Providence, RI. If anyone is
interested in more about it -- email me.
Anyone out there know who T. M. Brown was?
best
phoebe
Phoebe Wray
zozie(at)aol.com
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 22:51:15 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Today in History - May 3 >In a message dated 5/3/99 9:38:05 PM, you wrote: > ><<1865 > President Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield, >Illinois. >>> > >A propos of Mr Lincoln... I have a CD called Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too: A >Collection of American Political Marches, Songs and Dirges. On it is a piece >composed by one T.M. Brown, written in 1865, called President Lincoln's >Funeral March (A Tribute to President Lincoln). It is an extraordinary piece >of music. Unusual and moving and strange. I share this with my second year >grad students, all of whom are young but very good musicians, and it always >blows their socks off. > >Think I got the CD through BMG -- always looking for A/V things to dazzle my >classes. The CD is from Newpot Classic in Providence, RI. Phoebe & others: There was a song (I'm trying to remember the author -- Norman Corwin? Earl Robinson? That had the refrain "Lonesome train on a lonesome track" that was about LIncoln's funeral train. Maybe our Champ will know this one. Haven't heard it for years, but this post reminded me. Maybe a 40s or 50s song. Carroll
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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:33:37 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - May 4
1814
Napoleon Bonaparte disembarks at Portoferraio on the island
of Elba in the
Mediterranean.
1863
Battle of Chancellorsville ends when Union Army retreats.
1864
Union General Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his
duel with Robert E Lee.
William T.Sherman begins the Atlanta campaign.
1865
C.S. Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor surrenders army at Citronelle,
Ala.
Born on May 4
1796
Horace Mann, "the father of American Public Education"
educator and author.
1820
Joseph Whitaker, bookseller and publisher who founded
Whitaker's Almanac.
1827
John Hanning Speke, English explorer who discovered Lake
Victoria and the source of
the Nile.
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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 14:41:34 -0600 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Re: Today in History - May 4 Today is quite the day for birthdays, since Reuters also mentions: >1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, British naturalist and >humanist and originator of the word agnostic, born. > >1839 - The Cunard shipping line was founded by Samuel >Cunard of Halifax, Nova Scotia. > >1852 - The inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, Alice >Liddell, was born the daughter of British scholar Henry >Liddell. > >1882 - Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, British painter and >suffragette, born; she was the third member of her >family to fight for votes for women. Stephen D mailto:sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 23:53:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Titanic on the Discovery Channel
The Discovery Channel recently financed its own expedition to the Titanic
(at least this is my understanding) and came away with some data that
contradict what has become (and very lately, too) accepted theory on how
the ship sank.
Among the conclusions of the Channel's scientists are these:
It has been said that Titanic's rivets were weakened because of the slag
content of the metal. The new findings suggest that only 5 to 10 percent
of the rivets were weakened in this way. (Btw, 3,000,000 were required to
build the Titanic.)
The Titanic's steel was strong; the ship sank because of the enormous
water pressure exerted on bow and stern, which no steel could have
survived.
The ship's boilers, once thought to have exploded, were found intact. The
explosions reported by surivors are now thought to have been caused by
trapped air imploding and then exploding. Most likely the air was trapped
in the Titanic's huge refrigeration compartments. These devastating
explosions are the primary reason that the stern is in such terrible
condition while the bow is largely intact.
The ship broke in two, but the two parts (bow and stern) remained
connected until the ship was entirely submerged. The part connecting
them was the keel, which ran 90 and 1/2 feet along the bottom of the ship.
The bent edges of the keel show that it was slowly pulled apart.
Although survivors report seeing the bow of the ship rise almost
perpendicular to the waterline, tests suggest that it could have raised no
more than 12 degrees.
Tests with models show that the ship sank much faster than anyone
had expected. It sank in a swoop down-stall, swoop down-stall motion,
described as a "seesaw" pattern. (Some theories proposed that it sank in a
corkscrew motion.)
The Discovery Channel recently showed a program called "Titanic: Answers
from the Abyss," which lays out these and other findings. No doubt, it
will be shown again. In the meantime, the Channel's website lays out the
above, as well as other discoveries. The URL for the site is
http://www.discovery.com/stories/science/sciencetitanic/tunein.html
Bob C.
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Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 12:00:10 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - May 5
1814
British attack the American forces at Ft. Ontario, Oswego,
New York. Building the
Squadrons.
1821
Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena.
1834
The first mainland railway line opens in Belgium.
1862
Union and Confederate forces clash at the Battle of
Williamsburg, part of the Peninsular
Campaign.
1864
In the Wilderness, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E.
Lee stumbled blindly
toward their first wartime encounter
1865
The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery.
1867
At the Battle of Puebla, Mexicans defeat French-backed
Maximilian's forces.
[Hence the Cinco de Mayo celebration]
1886
A bomb explodes on the fourth day of a workers' strike in
Chicago, Ill.
1912
Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing.
["Pravda" is Russian for truth. "Isvestia" - the other
national Soviet paper - means "news".
The saying was that "In _Isvestia_ there is no pravda and in
_Pravda_ there is no isvestia."]
1916
U.S. Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
1917
Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American
aviator when he earns a
flying certificate with the French Air Service.
Born on May 5
1813
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher who founded
Existentialism. He believed man's
relation to God must be an agonizing experience.
1818
Karl Marx, German philosopher who founded of Communism with
Friedrich Engles.
Together they wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Capital.
1830
John B. Stetson, American hat maker who gave his name to the
wide-brimmed cowboy
hat.
1883
Charles Bender, the only Native American in baseball's Hall
of Fame.
1908
Rex Harrison, actor who starred in My Fair Lady.
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