In this issue:
Lost City (fwd)
Re: Lost City (fwd)
Today in History -- Oct 06
Re: Today in History -- Oct 06
Etext avail: John Buchan's _A book of escapes and hurried journeys_
Today in History -- Oct 07
Today in History -- Oct 08
A New Home, Who'll Follow?
Re: Today in History -- Oct 08
STRUWWELPETER IN ENGLISH: CONTEMPORARIES & SUCCESSORS
attempted Raffles bibliography
Today in History -- Oct 09
Today in History -- Oct 10
Today in History -- Oct 11
Today in History -- Oct 12
Re: TV alert: Lizzie Borden on _Case Reopened_
Etext avail: Meade and Eustace's _Brotherhood of the Seven Kings_
Today in History -- Oct 13
Re: attempted Raffles bibliography
Waterproofing tweeds <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 12>
Re: Waterproofing tweeds <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 12>
Alfred Dreyfus <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 09>
Boer War anniversary <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 11>
Lewis of Lewis & Clark dies <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 12>
Re: Lewis of Lewis & Clark dies <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 12>
If you read this letter, we have fallen into enemy hands <WAS: Today in
History -- Oct 12> (LONG)
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 17:53:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Lost City (fwd)
I thought Gaslighter might be entertained by the following article from
the _Times_ of London...
Bob C.
October 5 1999 UNITED STATES
DeMille's lost city yields its secrets
FROM GRACE BRADBERRY IN LOS ANGELES
THE locals in Guadalupe, California, call it "the dune that never moves", and
for 75 years this unshifting mass of sand has held one of Hollywood's
strangest secrets.
It was here, overlooking the remote coastal hamlet, that Cecil B. DeMille
chose to reconstruct Ancient Egypt for his 1923 silent epic, The Ten
Commandments.
Paramount Pictures had told him it was too expensive to film on location in
Egypt, so he found another outlet for his extravagance. The land of the
Pharaohs was reconstructed on a monumental scale. Hieroglyph-covered walls
rose ten storeys high, four statues of Rameses II flanked the gates, and
chariots rolled down an avenue lined with 21 sphinxes, each weighing five
tons.
To this day, it is one of the largest film sets ever built. Yet when shooting
was finished, the City of the Pharaohs simply disappeared.
In his memoirs, DeMille left one tantalising clue. "If 1,000 years from now
archaelogists happen to dig beneath the sands of Guadalupe," he wrote, "I
hope they will not rush into print with the amazing news that Egyptian
civilisation extended all the way to the Pacific Coast." It has not taken
nearly so long for the archaeologists to find DeMille's lost city, and now
they are on the brink of securing the funding to conduct an authentic dig of
the quality that would be conducted in Egypt itself.
A third of the set has been destroyed by the elements, but the rest is
believed to be held tight in the wet sand. A ground-penetrating radar has
been used to locate what remains, and John Parker, an archaeologist, has
plotted the precise location of every piece of wood, plaster, metal and
glass. Before anything can be excavated, however, special chemicals must be
used to soak the plaster and harden it.
It is a task as gargantuan as that undertaken by DeMille, who hired 1,600
labourers and gathered them into a tented city dubbed Camp DeMille to
recreate Ancient Egypt 170 miles north of Los Angeles.
Costs escalated to $40,000 (?24,000) a day. When the studio sent
panic-stricken telegrams, DeMille responded: "What do they want me to do?
Stop now and release it as The Five Commandments?"
Afraid that if he left the set standing, rival film-makers would head to
Guadalupe and shoot cheap pictures that would come out before his own, he dug
a big hole and used a horse-drawn bulldozer to topple the edifice into a
ditch. It amounted to a colossal waste of money, but while the film cost $1.4
million it grossed $4 million.
The excavation will also be expensive, which is why it has taken Peter
Brosnan, a documentary film-maker, so long to raise the money.
He first examined the site 14 years ago, discovering exposed bits of concrete
and plaster. He now declares: "This is an important piece of early
20th-century American history."
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Robert L. Champ
rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
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: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 19:20:36 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Lost City (fwd) >I thought Gaslighter might be entertained by the following article from >the _Times_ of London... > >Bob C. > >October 5 1999 UNITED STATES > >DeMille's lost city yields its secrets Wonderful story, Bob. Thanks for posting it. Sounds like a new Theme Park in the works. Carroll
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 00:50:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 06
Interesting things that happened October 6th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1820 Jenny Lind (in Sweden), soprano, nightingale
In 1831 Richard Dedekind, mathematician
In 1846 George Westinghouse, advocate for alternating current in US
In 1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast first program of voice and
music
In 1887 Mart?n Luis Guzm?n, Mexican novelist (The Eagle and the Serpent)
In 1888 Li Ta-chao, cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party
In 1906 Janet Gaynor (in Philadelphia), actress (Sunrise, A Star Is
Born)
In 1909 Carol Lombard, actress
In 1912 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), liked
to sail baskets across oceans
Events worth noting:
In 1863 Dr Charles H. Sheppard opens the first U.S. public bath in Brooklyn.
In 1889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:24:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History -- Oct 06 In a message dated 10/6/99 4:54:03 AM, you wrote: << In 1909 Carol Lombard, actress>> I watched Nothing Sacred, the original one with the great cast of character actors, not too long ago. What a funny film! Anyone else see it lately? It's worth the time. phoebe
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 14:49:40 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: John Buchan's _A book of escapes and hurried journeys_
From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 10/06/99 02:49 PM
To: Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cc:
Subject: Etext avail: John Buchan's _A book of escapes and hurried journeys_
(ESCAPEMN.HTM) (Nonfic, Chronos)
John Buchan's _A book of escapes and hurried journeys_ (1925, 1950 ed.)
escapemn.non
escapeXB.non
escapeXD.non
escapeXF.non
escapeXH.non
John Buchan wrote a English reader for high schools using daring
real life adventures as his subjects. Here we have the chapters
from within our Gaslight period:
II. THE RAILWAY RAID IN GEORGIA
IV. FROM PRETORIA TO THE SEA
VI. TWO AFRICAN JOURNEYS
VIII. THE FLIGHT OF LIEUTENANTS PARER AND
M'INTOSH ACROSS THE WORLD
Altho ch. 4 covers our current subject, the Boer Wars, ch. 6
is a better introduction to the tensions which were ever-
present in South Africa in the 19th C.
To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get escapemn.non
get escapeXB.non
get escapeXD.non
get escapeXF.non
get escapeXH.non
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/escapemn.htm
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:16:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Today in History -- Oct 07 Interesting things that happened October 7th: Birthdays on this date: In 1849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (The Raggedy Man) In 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter, IWW organizer, martyr In 1885 Niels Bohr, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922) In 1888 Henry A. Wallace (D/P), 33rd VP, Progressive pres. candidate In 1899 Jean Grimaldi (in France), French-Canadian stand up comic In 1905 Jean Arthur (or 10-17-08) In 1916 Walt W. Rostow, economist In 1917 June Allyson, actor Events worth noting: In 1826 Granite Railway (first chartered railway in US) begins operations. In 1849 Edgar Allen Poe dies in Baltimore at 40. In 1886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba. In 1908 Crete unites with Greece. In 1915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record).
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 01:48:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 08
Interesting things that happened October 8th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1869 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto built and
operated in the US
In 1873 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
In 1890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator
In 1895 Juan Per?n, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74)
In 1897 Rouben Mamoulian, movie director
In 1909 Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
In 1916 Spark Matsunaga, Democratic Senator from Hawaii
In 1920 Frank Herbert, sci-fi writer (Dune)
Events worth noting:
In 1840 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.
In 1860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
In 1862 Battle of Perryville, KY - Confederate invasion halted.
In 1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains.
In 1869 Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
+ Franklin Peirce 14th president of US, died in Concord, N.H.
In 1871 Nation's worst forest fire starts in Peshtigo, WI. The Great Fire
destroys over 4 sq. miles miles of Chicago. Fires in Michigan
started on the west coast and swept all the way across the state.
In 1896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
In 1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates the first 'permanent wave' for hair, in
London.
In 1918 Sgt. Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans.
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 06:57:50 -0400 (EDT) From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com Subject: A New Home, Who'll Follow? F.O.C. Darley illustrated the fourth edition of Caroline M. Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? (New York, C.S. Francis, 1850). The Library of Congress has digitized the fifth edition, also containing the Darley illustrations. Perversely they did not include an index to the Darley illustrations. (Do a search for Caroline Kirkland at. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html Here is a listing of the six illustrations: "They're coming! They're coming! was the cry" p. 58 Use the page-turner to turn to page image #3. This illustration precedes the title page. ?Behold me then seated on a box in the midst of an anomalous congregation of household goods.? p. 69. Use the page-turner feature to turn to page image #71. "Why law! that's nothing but pride now: folks is often too proud to take comfort. For my part I couldn't do without my pipe to please nobody." p. 89. Use the page-turner to turn to page image #92. "Now if our ponies would only have gone a little faster! But they would not so we were wet to the skin--travelling jets d'eau." p. 138 Use the page-turner feature to turn to page image #142. MRS. CAMPASPE NIPPERS p. 208 Use the page-turner feature to turn to page image #213. "And what's this thing?" twirling the music stool with all his might and getting down on his poor knees to look underneath both these curiosities." p. 284 Use the page-turner feature to turn to page image #290. To print, put page setup at 75% Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com www.focdarley.org
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 09:31:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Today in History -- Oct 08 Another birthday... Emily Blackwell, doctor, hospital administrator -- despite rejection by 11 medical schools (including her famous older sister Elizabeth's) born in 1826 phoebe
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 11:52:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com
Subject: STRUWWELPETER IN ENGLISH: CONTEMPORARIES & SUCCESSORS
Just sent in my registration for this. My son-in-law remembers his
grandmother reading this to him and his sister. We raised our daughter on
CAUTIONARY TALES!
November 19-20, 1999
at Princeton University
A conference organized by:
Walter Sauer, University of Heidelberg
J. D. Stahl, Virginia Tech
Andrea Immel, Cotsen Children's Library
The year 1999 marks the 150th anniversary of "Slovenly Peter," the first
American translation of Heinrich Hoffmann's children's classic, Der
Struwwelpeter. To celebrate the book's advent in the New World, the
Cotsen Children's Library at the Princeton University Library Department
of Rare Books and Special Collections will host an international
conference exploring Struwwelpeter's reception in the English-speaking
world and its many translations, adaptations, and parodies.
PROGRAM
Opening Address:
- - Brian Alderson (UK), "The Cautionary Tale in England before and after
Struwwelpeter"
The American Struwwelpeter:
- - Ruth Bottigheimer (USA), "Struwwelpeter at an American Crossroads"
- - Linda Lapides (USA), "The American Reception of Struwwelpeter"
- - Walter Sauer (Germany), "Struwwelpeter Naturalized: McLoughlin
Imprints of Slovenly Peter and Related Books"
- - J. D. Stahl (USA), "Struwwelpeter and the Development of the American
Children's Book"
Struwwelpeter in England:
- - David Blamires (UK), "Some English Social Parodies of Struwwelpeter"
- - Dennis Butts (UK), "Heinrich Hoffmann and Edward Lear"
- - Emer O'Sullivan (Germany), "English Struwwelpeter Translations"
Genre Studies:
- - Klaus Doderer (Germany), "Struwwelpeter and the Nazis: The Political
Function of a German Picture Book"
- - Astrid Surmatz (Germany), "Animal Struwwelpeteriades"
- - Ulrich Wiedmann (Germany), "The Inflammable Maiden: Some Remarks on
Disobedient Girls"
- - Beate Zekorn-von Bebenburg (Germany), "The Secret of the Soup Tureen,
or Some Remarks on Struwwelpeter and Black Humor in England, America and
Germany"
Closing Address:
- - Ulrich Knoepflmacher (USA), "Validating Defiance: From Twain and
Kipling to Maurice Sendak"
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
There is a $25.00 registration fee. To register, please return the form
below with payment in U.S. dollars to:
Cotsen Children's Library
Princeton University Library
One Washington Road
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-2098
The registration form can be printed off the Cotsen website:
<http://www.princeton.edu/~cotsen>
Carol Digel
LoracLegid(at)aol.com
WWW.FOCDARLEY.ORG
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 17:26:50 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: attempted Raffles bibliography
Here's an attempt to make a Raffles bibliography culled from the titles of E.W.
Hornung, based on books I own, but reinforced by a Raffles page at the following
URL: http://www2.bc.edu/~ivesa/raffleslist.html where the owner has also mounted
some of the Raffles pictures.
1898-jun/nov _In the chains of crime_ in _Cassell's magazine_
The Ides of March
A costume piece
Gentlemen and players
Nine points of the law
The return match
The gift of the emperor
1899 _The amateur cracksman_
Scribner (1910 ed)
The Ides of March
A costume piece
Gentlemen and players
Le premier pas
Wilful murder
Nine points of the law
The return match
The gift of the emperor
1901 _The black mask_ (U.S. title: _The further adventures of Raffles_)
which I believe contains these stories:
No sinecure
A Jubilee present
The fate of Faustina
The last laugh
To catch a thief
An old flame
The knees of the gods
_The amateur cracksman_ and _The black mask_ were later combined
into one volume as _Raffles, the amateur cracksman_, excepting the
story, "The knees of the gods".
1905 A thief in the night
Scribner (1906 ed)
Out of paradise
The chest of silver
The rest cure
The criminologists' club
The field of Philippi
A bad night
A trap to catch a cracksman
The spoils of sacrilege
The Raffles relics
The last word
1909 Mr. Justice Raffles
a novel
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 00:17:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 09
Interesting things that happened October 9th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1835 Camille Saint-Sa?ns, french composer
In 1890 Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher
In 1906 L?opold Senghor, poet, president of Senegal (1960-80)
Events worth noting:
In 1806 Benjamin Banneker, black American astronomer, dies.
In 1855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass. receives a patent for the first
calliope.
In 1876 First 2-way telephone conversation
In 1888 Public admitted to Washington Monument.
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:25:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 10
Interesting things that happened October 10th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
In 1830 Emily Dickinson, poet
In 1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norweg. Arctic explorer, humanitarian (Nobel 1922)
In 1892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslav novelist (Bridge on the Drina) (Nobel '61)
In 1895 Lin Y?-t'ang, Chinese writer (My Country and My People)
In 1900 Helen Hayes, actor (Caesar and Cleopatra, Happy Birthday)
Events worth noting:
In 1845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland.
In 1846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell.
In 1886 Griswold Lorillard wears the first dinner jacket to the Autumn Ball
in Tuxedo Park. Thus the name 'tuxedo.'
In 1911 China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty.
In 1913 Pacific and Atlantic mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam, opening the
Panama Canal
In 1920 Bill Wambsganns unassisted world series triple play.
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:31:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 11
Interesting things that happened October 11th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company
In 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady, crusader
In 1885 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright (Nobel 1952)
In 1910 Joseph Alsop, newspaper columnist
In 1918 Jerome Robbins, choreographer
In 1919 Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers)
Events worth noting:
In 1811 The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
In 1864 Slavery abolished in Maryland.
In 1865 CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens and other cabinet members are
paroled by President Johnson and released from prison.
In 1890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded.
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 01:20:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Today in History -- Oct 12
Interesting things that happened October 12th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1798 Pedro I, first emperor of Brazil (1822-31), king of Portugal
In 1860 Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass
In 1866 Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), British prime minister (1924, 1929-35)
In 1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams (in England), composer
In 1896 Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, translator (Xenia) (Nobel 1975)
Events worth noting:
In 1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats.
In 1860 British and French troops capture Peking.
In 1862 J.E.B. Stuart completes his "Second ride around McClellan".
+ Maj. Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf. troops in
Missisippi.
In 1870 General Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, VA at age 63.
In 1891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated.
In 1920 Man O'War's last race.
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 07:51:32 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)alice.gloaming.com> Subject: Re: TV alert: Lizzie Borden on _Case Reopened_ >Subject: Case Reopened >We challenged Lawrence Block, Ed McBain, and Joseph Wambaugh >The Black Dahlia October 10th >Lizzie Borden October 10th Did anyone get a chance to catch these? I have VCR set to tape the repeats on Saturday but then I remembered some of the details of the Black Dahlia case and I'm not sure I can watch it if it's at all the least bit graphic. Lizzie is bad enough--was there some new information? Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:53:56 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Meade and Eustace's _Brotherhood of the Seven Kings_
From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 10/12/99 04:53 PM
To: Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cc:
Subject: Etext avail: Meade and Eustace's _Brotherhood of the Seven Kings_
(MEADEMEN.HTM) (Fiction, Chronos, Schedule)
L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace's _The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings_ (1899)
bro7kX05.srl to bro7kX09.srl
Here are five more exciting chapters about Madame Koluchy.
Ch. 7: "The iron circlet" is one of her most daring and dastardly
exploits yet related. It will be the subject of our discussion
next week.
These etexts are in the process of being proofread. Please let me know
of any errors which you encounter.
Ch. 10 will not be released until December when we will see a set of
Christmas Gaslight etexts.
To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get bro7kX05.srl
get bro7kX06.srl
get bro7kX07.srl
get bro7kX08.srl
get bro7kX09.srl
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/meademen.htm
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:40:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> Subject: Today in History -- Oct 13 Interesting things that happened October 13rd: Birthdays on this date: In 1853 Lillie Langtry (the Jersey Lily), actress, singer In 1909 Herblock (Herbert L. Block), political cartoonist In 1917 Burr Tillstrom, creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie In 1918 Cornell Wilde, actor In 1920 Laraine Day, actress In 1921 Yves Montand, French actor, singer Events worth noting: In 1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights. In 1843 B'nai B'rith founded in NY. In 1845 Texas ratifies a state constitution.
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:30:52 +0800 (SST) From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22James_St._Andr=E9=22?=" <chsjgsa(at)nus.edu.sg> Subject: Re: attempted Raffles bibliography >Here's an attempt to make a Raffles bibliography culled from the titles of E.W. >Hornung, based on books I own, but reinforced by a Raffles page at the following >URL: http://www2.bc.edu/~ivesa/raffleslist.html where the owner has also mounted >some of the Raffles pictures. Thanks for the URL Stephen. >1901 _The black mask_ (U.S. title: _The further adventures of Raffles_) <snip> > An old flame > The knees of the gods my 1905 Scribner's edition of this book is entitled _Raffles: further adventures of the Amateur Cracksman_. It also includes one story you don't list here: "The Wrong House" between "An Old Flame" and "The Knees of the Gods" >1905 A thief in the night > > Scribner (1906 ed) > Out of paradise <snip> In my 1905 Scribner's edition, the first story is the same as the title of the book "A Thief in the Night" James St. Andre
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 07:03:00 -0600 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Waterproofing tweeds <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 12> Robert C. wrote in regard to 99-oct-12: >Interesting things that happened October 12th: >.... > In 1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats. According to my "How to make 300 (secret) trade recipes", a pamphet of date unknown, c. late 19th. C, one can take the following steps in preference to purchasing a Macintosh. >> To Waterproof Tweed.--Tweed garments may be rendered waterproof and impervious to the heaviest rains if treated as follows:--Into a pail of soft or rain water put 1/2 lb. sugar of lead and the same quantity of powdered alum. Stir every now and then until the mixture becomes quite clear. Pour it off into another vessel and place the garments therein for 24 hours. Hang up to dry without wringing, and any coat immersed in this solution is to be recommended in place of a waterproof or raincoat. << I'm not sure what sugar of lead is, but I think I just loaned my last cup to the neighbours. I can't remember the time period in which _The Swiss Family Robinson_ is set, but don't they experiment with rubberizing clothes? Stephen D mailto:Sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:06:48 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Waterproofing tweeds <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 12> Stephen wonders what sugar of lead is. It's sugar of lead (saccharum saturni: lead acetate, Pb(CH3CO)2.3H2O I found it at http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/archema.html which is an excellent glossary of archaic chemical terms. Kiwi
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:30:50 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Alfred Dreyfus <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 09>
from the History Net ( http://www.thehistorynet.com/today/1009.htm )
>Born on October 9
> 1859 Alfred Dreyfus, French artillery officer who was falsely accused
of giving French
> military secrets to foreign powers
I've mounted on the website a speech given by his lawyer, Fernand Labori,
which I found in _The world's best orations_ (1901), tho I think the speech was
more topical than exemplary when the editor selected it.
The preface says that when Labori represented Dreyfus, he wasn't given much
chance to make a speech. This oration is actually taken from Labori's defence
of Zola, another of Dreyfus' defenders.
(DREYFUSA.HTM) (Nonfic, Chronos)
Fernand Labori's "The conspiracy against Dreyfus" (1898)
dreyfusa.non
Maitre Fernand Labori's defence of Zola in a libel case, connected
with the Dreyfus affair.
What does the title "Maitre" signify?
To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get dreyfusa.non
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/dreyfusa.htm
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:31:06 -0600 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Boer War anniversary <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 11> Also on Oct. 11: 1899 South African Boers, settler from the Netherlands, declare war on Great Britain.
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:31:19 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Lewis of Lewis & Clark dies <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 12>
At the History Net ( http://www.historynet.com/today/1012.htm ), the following
entry piques my curiosity.
>1809 Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies under
mysterious
> circumstances in St. Louis.
Stephen D
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:55:46 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Lewis of Lewis & Clark dies <WAS: Today in History -- Oct 12> There's a lot of speculation that Mr. Lewis killed himself. I think there was a popular book or novel about this a year or so ago. I think there's a murder mystery too, but can't recall for the life of me what the title is. Kiwi
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:41:11 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: If you read this letter, we have fallen into enemy hands <WAS: Today
in History -- Oct 12> (LONG)
Nurse Edith Cavell was executed as a spy on this date in 1915.
Cavell had a stern 19thC. upbringing, but after a few years as a governess in
England and in Belgium, she enrolled in a nursing school in London. This was as
good as being branded unmarriageable in those days. She became head nurse at a
progressive new clinic in Brussels in 1911, and was still there at the beginning
of WWI.
According to Adele de Leeuw, in her book _Edith Cavell: nurse, spy, heroine_
(1968), she wrote a letter to her mother, just before the fall of Brussels in
1914. It reads:
>>If you open this, it will be because that which we fear now has happened, and
Brussels has fallen into the hands of the enemy. They are very near now and it
is doubtful if the Allied armies can stop them. We are prepared for the worst.
I have given dear Gracie and the Sisters a chance to go home, but none of them
will leave. I appreciate their courage, and I want you to let the Jemmetts know
that I did my best to send Gracie home, but she refused firmly to leave me --
she is very quiet and brave....
If I can send my few jewels over, will you divide them between Flor and Lil,
and please send Mrs. McDonnell my long gold chain, which she gave me, and a
keepsake to Marion Hall?
I shall think of you to the last, and you may be sure we shall do our duty
here and die as women of our race should die...."<<
De Leeuw continues:
>>She gave the jewels in a little box to some friends she had met. When it
became clear they could not get away, the box was returned to her. The letter
itself never reached her family. It fell into the hands of a German officer, and
not until he died twenty years later did it become public.<<
Again, according to de Leeuw:
>>To Edith's surprise and delight she recognized now the qualities she had
learned to appreciate during years of living among the Belgians. They did not
bow down to the enemy, but found ways of showing their independence.
It was forbidden to sing the national anthem. But along the streets of
Brussels people were singing it -- one sentence at a time, from house to house.
The German patrols were baffled and furious, but they found it impossible to
punish any specific person. After all, no one person had sung the anthem -- only
a sentence of it!
On more than one occasion groups of citizens -- as if by agreement -- appeared
wearing scraps of white paper in their buttonholes. The Germans had said
contemptuously that the treaty with Belgium was "only a scrap of paper." By some
mysterious conspiracy citizens would agree to set their alarm clocks for a
certain hour. Troops patrolling the quiet, deserted streets would suddenly be
assailed by a terrific clamor of bells. They would rush about, calling orders,
hunting for the cause of the commotion -- and, as suddenly, the bells would
stop. Quiet would return, but at each window would be a grinning face. Other
people found satisfaction in waiting for a patrol to pass, dropping a heavy
saucepan tied to a string onto the pavement with a resounding bang. Before the
patrol could turn, the saucepan was withdrawn.
Though they were small distractions, almost the pranks of children, they
served to keep up spirits. Additional curfews were imposed, yet the incidents
were repeated. If Germans entered a cafe, the Belgians left. In every way they
could the people of Belgium tried to show their contempt for the enemy. The
actual struggle to get the enemy out of the country was something else.<<
Cavell was asked to shelter some Allied soldiers who had been left behind during
the retreat. This became a common practice for her during the next year,
despite the administration of her hospital being in German hands! The locals
must have noticed what was going on, but they did not report her.
Unfortunately one group of British soldiers, despite orders, went out after
curfew and got drunk. Another lucky Englishman was stupid enough to send Cavell
a postcard thanking her for all she had done for him!!! Altho suspicions may
have been growing about Cavell, it was a letter from her to a co-conspirator who
was arrested which was all the evidence the Germans had against her.
After a hasty trial, she told the English chaplain in her cell, "I know now that
patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred and no bitterness towards
anyone." The words became famous as an example of her selflessness.
There is a photo with a capsule description of Cavell's story at:
http://www.thehistorynet.com/picture/1013.htm
from which I quote:
>>Within days of her death, the selfless nurse was elevated to martyr status and
the Germans were internationally condemned as "murdering monsters."<<
The incident drove up enlistment worldwide (this was pre-conscription) and
bolstered the Allied armies.<<
I've also read good articles about Cavell from _British Heritage_ (1996 & 1997)
at the following URLs:
http://thehistorynet.com/MilitaryHistory/articles/08964_cover.htm
http://www.thehistorynet.com/BritishHeritage/articles/1997/05972_text.htm
Here is Cavell's own report on the fall of Brussels:
(CAVELL.HTM) (Nonfic, Chronos)
Edith Cavell's "Report on the fall of Brussels" (1914)
cavell.non
Edith Cavell was a frequent contributor of articles to the
_Nursing Times_. Here she describes the German invasion of
neutral Belgium.
To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get cavell.non
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/cavell.htm
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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