American poet Dixon Lanier Merritt's well-known limerick is about what bird?

Dixon Lanier Merritt - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki More info on Dixon Lanier Merritt   Wikis Advertisements    Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879 – 1972) was a poet and humorist . He was a newspaper editor for the Tennessean, Nashville 's morning paper, and President of the American Press Humorists Association. He penned this well-known limerick in 1910: [1] A wonderful bird is the pelican , His bill will hold more than his belican, He can take in his beak Enough food for a week But I'm damned if I see how the helican! or A funny old bird is a pelican. His beak can hold more than his bellican. Food for a week He can hold in his beak, But I don't know how the hellican. The limerick, inspired by a post card sent to him by a female reader of his newspaper column who was visiting Florida beaches. It is often misattributed to Ogden Nash and is widely misquoted as demonstrated above. It is quoted in a number of scholarly works on ornithology , including "Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function," by Noble S. Proctor and Patrick J. Lynch, and several others. He served as Tennessee State Director of Public Safety, taught at Cumberland University and was editor of the "The Tennessean" and "Lebanon Democrat" newspapers and later contributed a column for many years called "Our Folks". During the 1920s he was the Southern correspondent for "Outlook" magazine, a weekly newsmagazine aimed at rural readers. He edited a comprehensive "History of Wilson County (Tennessee)" in his eighties. He worked for the U.S. federal government twice, around the time of both World Wars, and ultimately retired from the Rural Electrification Administration's telephone program office. Merritt was a founding member of the Tennessee Ornithological Society . A nature center at the Tennessee Cedars of Lebanon State Park is named for him. He served as President of the Society of American Press Humorists. Following World War I he returned to the familial farm near Lebanon, TN and using portions of various cedar log cabins nearly one hundred years old assembled a new structure on a hill which he dubbed "Cabincroft". Croft being a Scottish word for a place of shelter. He maintained a working farm into his seventies preferring natural methods. Born Dixon Lanier Abernathy, his parents divorced while he was a child and one of his five uncles subsequently adopted him. Upon achieving majority at age 21 Dixon legally changed his surname to Merritt, something he said he regreted later in life. Dixon Merritt was married twice, first to Hatton [need maiden name] Merritt of Kentucky ending in divorce with issue of a son and daughter (all deceased) and the second to Ruth Yates of New York with issue of two sons (still living as of January 2009). References


"Algernon Blackwood's 1907 story, called by H. P. Lovecraft as the ""finest supernatural tale in English literature"" is titled after what type of trees? (hint: cricket)"

Species You May Rp As - Forums - MyAnimeList.net Species You May Rp As Species You May Rp As Must be a Club Member to Reply  Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 1776 Below will post a species you can rp your chara as. You may use whatever you wish it does come with an explanation to what they are if you do not know.   Posts: 1776 Biographies : Cambions Cambions are considered to be the result of breeding a devil with mortal females. The offspring of a mortal male and a succubus is a different creature known as an alu-fiend. In general, a cambion is described as any humanoid creature that is half-fiend. Scholars have differed over the years as to the exact meaning of the term "cambion". Past scholars used the term to denote "the union of a planetouched woman (usually a tiefling) and a tanar'ri" . They also further delineated this terminology to create "noble cambions": Marquis and Baron cambions are similarly sired by a demon lord father and a female humanoid half-fiend. In more recent times (since the Spellplague), the terminology and usage of this term has shifted to mean the union of a mortal female and a devil. Physiology The mothers of true cambions always die in childbirth, serving to strand the newborn on the Material Plane where it will be orphaned, or in the Abyss where it will be abused by the demons who look down upon such children. Never accepted by either societies, cambions invariably grow up bitter and twisted but, due to their powers, they often become exceptional assassins. Many though, have been made the ambassadors to the worshipers of various demonic powers, usually Graz'zt, Demogorgon, Orcus and Lolth Loners by nature, they like to get lost in the crowds of large cities, especially in places where people don't ask questions. Good-aligned cambions are rare, but sometimes, if their mother was good or neutral-aligned, they take on her nonevil nature and are subsequently doomed to a life of loneliness as not even their demonic patrons will accept them. Cambions excel in luring mortals to the Abyss, the only demons better at it are succubi. They then warn demons of the mortals' approach and let them do what they do best so the souls can be turned into larvae or manes. Cambions are very ambitious and always put as much effort as they can into whatever they try to do, maybe either to prove themselves to a parent or to themselves, but regardless, they make great leaders, information brokers, etc. and are often catalysts for major events. Known Cambions Kaanyr Vhok the Sceptered One. Leader of the Scoured Legion Asbeel Isair and Madae, the children of Belhifet and leaders of the Legion of the Chimera in the game Icewind Dale II Thraxxia, though described as resembling an alu-fiend, is the daughter of Graz'zt and a mortal female, and thus a cambion by most definitions of the word. [In 1st and 2nd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and by extension the Forgotten Realms, cambion was a term that meant the offspring of a demon (other than a succubus) and a human. In 3rd edition, it was a synonym for any half-fiend (according to the Monster Manual 3rd edition). The Expedition to the Demonweb Pits adventure threw in a third definition, claiming that a cambion was the child of a demon and a tiefling. Now with the 4th edition we are given a fourth meaning yet: the child of a human and a devil.] Cambions breed true with each other, but they often prefer to seek out humanoid mates to create tiefling children.   Posts: 1776 Biographies : Homunculus Homunculus (masculine, Latin for "little human", plural: "homunculi"; from the diminutive of homo) is a term used, generally, in various fields of study to refer to any representation of a human being. Historically, it referred specifically to the concept of a miniature though fully formed human body, for example, in the studies of alchemy and preformationism. Currently, in scientific fields, a homunculus may refer to any scale model of the human body that, in some way, illustrates physiological, psychological, or other abstract human characteristics or functions. In Carl Jung's studies of alc


Polynesia the parrot teaches animal language to what literary character?

Chapter 2: Animal Language | The Story of Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting | Lit2Go ETC The Story of Doctor Dolittle Source: Lofting, H. (1920). The Story of Doctor Dolittle . New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Readability: Chicago Lofting, H. (1920). Chapter 2: Animal Language. The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved January 19, 2017, from http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/221/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/5616/chapter-2-animal-language/ Lofting, Hugh. "Chapter 2: Animal Language." The Story of Doctor Dolittle. Lit2Go Edition. 1920. Web. <http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/221/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/5616/chapter-2-animal-language/>. January 19, 2017. Hugh Lofting, "Chapter 2: Animal Language," The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Lit2Go Edition, (1920), accessed January 19, 2017, http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/221/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle/5616/chapter-2-animal-language/. Next The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! It happened one day that the Doctor was sitting in his kitchen talking with the Cat's–meat–Man who had come to see him with a stomach–ache. "Why don't you give up being a people's doctor, and be an animal–doctor?" asked the Cat's–meat–Man. The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor–song to herself. She stopped singing and started to listen. "You see, Doctor," the Cat's–meat–Man went on, "you know all about animals—much more than what these here vets do. That book you wrote—about cats, why, it's wonderful! I can't read or write myself—or maybe I'D write some books. But my wife, Theodosia, she's a scholar, she is. And she read your book to me. Well, it's wonderful—that's all can be said—wonderful. You might have been a cat yourself. You know the way they think. And listen: you can make a lot of money doctoring animals. Do you know that? You see, I'd send all the old women who had sick cats or dogs to you. And if they didn't get sick fast enough, I could put something in the meat I sell 'em to make 'em sick, see?" "Oh, no," said the Doctor quickly. "You mustn't do that. That wouldn't be right." "Oh, I didn't mean real sick," answered the Cat's–meat–Man. "Just a little something to make them droopy–like was what I had reference to. But as you say, maybe it ain't quite fair on the animals. But they'll get sick anyway, because the old women always give 'em too much to eat. And look, all the farmers 'round about who had lame horses and weak lambs—they'd come. Be an animal–doctor." When the Cat's–meat–Man had gone the parrot flew off the window on to the Doctor's table and said, "That man's got sense. That's what you ought to do. Be an animal–doctor. Give the silly people up—if they haven't brains enough to see you're the best doctor in the world. Take care of animals instead—THEY'll soon find it out. Be an animal–doctor." "Oh, there are plenty of animal–doctors," said John Dolittle, putting the flower–pots outside on the window–sill to get the rain. "Yes, there ARE plenty," said Polynesia. "But none of them are any good at all. Now listen, Doctor, and I'll tell you something. Did you know that animals can talk?" "I knew that parrots can talk," said the Doctor. "Oh, we parrots can talk in two languages—people's language and bird–language," said Polynesia proudly. "If I say, 'Polly wants a cracker,' you understand me. But hear this: Ka–ka oi–ee, fee–fee?" "Good Gracious!" cried the Doctor. "What does that mean?" "That means, 'Is the porridge hot yet?'—in bird–language." "My! You don't say so!" said the Doctor. "You never talked that way to me before." "What would have been the good?" said Polynesia, dusting some cracker–crumbs off her left wing. "You wouldn't have understood me if I had." "Tell me some more," said the Doctor, all excited; and he rushed over to the dresser–drawer and came back with the butcher's book and a pencil. "Now don't go too fast—and I'll write it down. This is interesting—very interesting—something quite new. Give me the Birds' A.B.C. first—slowly now." So tha


Which prolific author created a men-only dining group called The Black Widowers for a series of mystery stories?

Black Widowers (Literature) - TV Tropes Black Widowers You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share YMMV The Black Widowers is a fictional men-only dining club created by Isaac Asimov for a series of sixty-six mystery stories that he started writing in 1971. Most of the stories follow the same basic convention: the six club members meet once a month at a private room at the Milano restaurant in New York. Each one takes a turn to act as host for the evening and brings along a guest for the occasion. The guest may be a friend, relative or colleague from work (women are not allowed). The meal is served by the incomparable waiter Henry Jackson ï¿½ almost invariably referred to as simply Henry ï¿½ whom the regulars look upon with high regard and even consider an actual member. After the main course, the brandy is served and the host rattles his spoon on his water glass for silence. One of the other Widowers is appointed as "griller" and begins the questioning, most often by asking the guest to "justify his existence". In the course of the subsequent conversation, it always comes out that the guest has a problem, varying from personal issues to problems at work to actual crimes. The club members try to solve the problem, raising various related aspects in the course of the conversation, but are unable to come to a conclusion or resolution. In the end, it is Henry who provides the correct, and usually very simple, answer, obtained from details mentioned in the conversation. The Black Widowers were based on a literary dining club Asimov belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. Members of the Widowers were based on real-life Spiders, some of them famous writers in their own right: Geoffrey Avalon, a patent attorney (based on L. Sprague de Camp ) Emmanuel Rubin, a mystery novelist and acquaintance of Isaac Asimov (based on Lester del Rey ) James Drake, a chemist (based on Dr. John D. Clark) Thomas Trumbull, an expert in cryptography for the United States government (based on Gilbert Cant) Mario Gonzalo, an artist, who usually draws a portrait of the evening's guest (based on Lin Carter) Roger Halsted, a high school mathematics teacher, fond of jokes and limericks (based on Don Bensen) Tropes used in the Black Widowers stories include: Apple of Discord : In "To The Barest," the late ex-Widower Ralph Ottur invokes this and alludes to the mythological example by leaving a sum of money in his will "to the barest" of the current Black Widowers, whatever that means ï¿½ with the additional caveat that if they are smart enough to refuse to argue, the money will go to the American Nazi Party. (For extra points, Ottur deliberately chose a lawyer named Parris as his executor.) Clock Discrepancy : In one of the Black Widowers mysteries, where a character is woken up by a phone call at a time that is actually an hour later than he thinks it is (because he hasn't yet set his clock forward for Daylight Savings Time) and thus unwittingly provides a false alibi. In another Black Widowers story, a discrepancy between 5:50 (which would exonerate the accused) and "half past five" (which incriminates him) is resolved in favor of the former — the witness reporting the latter was an accountant used to decimal numbers who unconsciously interpreted the digital clock display as "five and a half". Distracted by My Own Sexy : In "No Smoking", the guest is a man whose specialty is job interviews. He keeps a variety of objects on his desk, and judges people's character by how they interact with those objects. The fashion-conscious Mario Gonzalo asks how he did on his interview, and the guest replies that he never reveals his secrets, but he will mention one thing: "There was a mirror in the room." Doing In the Wizard : Asimov does this in this series, especially in "The Obvious Factor" and "The Haunted Cabin". Another short story, "The Cross of Lorraine" features a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of the Amazing Randi, who does this for a living. Dying Clue : In "The Sports Page", the guest relates the tale of a Russian spy (that is, a Ru


The phrase 'motiveless malignity' was used by S. T. Coleridge to describe which diabolic villain of literature?

"The Motive-Hunting of Motiveless Malignity" A Note on "The Motive-Hunting of Motiveless Malignity"      The famous phrase, "The motive-hunting of motiveless Malignity," occurs in a note Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in his copy of Shakespeare, as he was preparing a series of lectures delivered in the winter of 1818-1819. The note concerns the end of Act 1, Scene 3 of Othello in which Iago takes leave of Roderigo, saying, "Go to, farewell. Put money enough in your purse," and then delivers the soliloquy beginning " Thus do I ever make my fool my purse ." Here is Coleridge's note: The triumph! again, put money after the effect has been fully produced.The last Speech, the motive-hunting of motiveless Malignityhow awful! In itself fiendishwhile yet he was allowed to bear the divine image, too fiendish for his own steady View.A being next to Devilonly not quite Devil& this Shakespeare has attemptedexecutedwithout disgust, without Scandal!    (Lectures 1808-1819 On Literature 2: 315)      Coleridge's phrase is often taken to mean that Iago has no real motive and does evil only because he is evil. This is not far from what Coleridge meant, but he almost certainly wasn't using the word "motive" in the same way as it's now used. We use it to mean "an emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action" ( The Free Dictionary by Farlex: Motive ). This definition equates "motive" and "impulse"; Coleridge, however, thought the two quite different. He makes this distinction in an entry he wrote for Omniana, a collection of sayings assembled by his friend Robert Southey and published in 1812. Here is what Coleridge wrote: 119. Motives and Impulses. It is a matter of infinite difficulty, but fortunately of comparative indifference, to determine what a man's motive may have been for this or that particular action. Rather seek to learn what his objects in general are!What does he habitually wish? habitually pursue?and thence deduce his impulses, which are commonly the true efficient causes of men's conduct; and without which the motive itself would not have become a motive. Let a haunch of venison represent the motive, and the keen appetite of health and exercise the impulse: then place the same or some more favourite dish, before the same man, sick, dyspeptic, and stomach-worn, and we may then weigh the comparative influences of motives and impulses. Without the perception of this truth, it is impossible to understand the character of Iago, who is represented as now assigning one, and then another, and again a third, motive for his conduct, all alike the mere fictions of his own restless nature, distempered by a keen sense of his intellectual superiority, and haunted by the love of exerting power, on those especially who are his superiors in practical and moral excellence. Yet how many among our modern critics have attributed to the profound author this, the appropriate inconsistency of the character itself!   (Shorter Works and Fragments 1: 310) Thus Coleridge asserts that Iago's motives (in our sense) were his "keen sense of his intellectual superiority" and his "love of exerting power." And so Iago's malignity is "motiveless" because his motives (in Coleridge's sense)  revenge for being passed over for promotion, and for being cuckolded by both Othello and Cassio  are merely rationalizations. Works Cited Colderidge, Samuel Taylor. Lectures 1808-1819 On Literature. Ed. R. A. Foakes. Volume 2. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. (Lectures 1808-1819 On Literature is Number 5 in The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Colderidge. Ed. Kathleen Coburn. 13 numbers to date. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1969.) Colderidge, Samuel Taylor. Shorter Works and Fragments. Ed. H. J. Jackson and J. R. de J. Jackson.Volume 1. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995. (Shorter Works and Fragments is Number 11 in The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Colderidge. Ed. Kathleen Coburn. 13 numbers to date. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Un


A 1978 contemplative travel book of Peter Matthiessen concerned him tracking what elusive creature of the Himalayas?

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists Shelves: aere-perennius , 2014 “The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.” ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard I'm a little embarrassed to say I hadn't paid attention to much of Matthiessen's work before he died. I had Shadow Country on my shelf and every intention o “The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.” ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard I'm a little embarrassed to say I hadn't paid attention to much of Matthiessen's work before he died. I had Shadow Country on my shelf and every intention of getting to it soon, but didn't realize he had this whole other nonfiction output. I read the Snow Leopard after I read his obit three weeks ago and discovered he was the only person (?) to win the National Book Award for BOTH fiction and nonfiction. OK, so, maybe it was time to throw off my veil of ignorance and start reading some Matthiessen. I figured 'The Snow Leopard' was a good place to start. I loved it. Part travel writing, part nature writing, part spiritual journey, this book has it all. It is beautifully written, and seems to float the reader up and down the mountains. At its heart Matthiessen is traveling with his field biologist friend George Schaller (GS) into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Blue Sheep and hopefully see the elusive snow leopard (and hell, maybe a Yeti). Matthiessen was also on a spiritual journey after the loss of his wife to find the Lama of Shey and to find a path through the difficulties associated with the impermanence and suffering of life. His journey is a melting into the now, a search for the present, and an acceptance of finding and not finding the thing(s) you think you seek. ...more Shelves: travel This is one of the more beautifully written books I can remember reading. Descriptions of the flora, fauna and Himalayan villages were all very well done. Matthiessen's writing made it very easy for me to imagine the high reaching peaks and snow covered passes that gave the expedition so much trouble. His descriptions of the villages really made me pause to consider the hardships that such a life would entail. We also get to meet some fun characters along the way. GS is an interesting guy, but i This is one of the more beautifully written books I can remember reading. Descriptions of the flora, fauna and Himalayan villages were all very well done. Matthiessen's writing made it very easy for me to imagine the high reaching peaks and snow covered passes that gave the expedition so much trouble. His descriptions of the villages really made me pause to consider the hardships that such a life would entail. We also get to meet some fun characters along the way. GS is an interesting guy, but it was the Sherpas (and their upbeat approach to life) that really stood out to me. For the most part this book moves along smoothly, but there were a few times when I found myself getting bogged down just a little bit. Mostly, these moments occurred during pages discussing spirituality and the history of Buddhism. While I initially enjoyed learning as much as possible about a religion/philosophy I know very little about, the author spent too much time on the topic for my taste and it eventually grew tedious at times. Even during these stretches, however, Matthiessen’s amazing prose kept me going. I really loved the few pages Matthiessen spent discussing his relationship with his late wife. As a newly wed I found those chapters heart breaking but also highly informative. Matthiessen is not afraid to lay


In Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta the anarchist wears a mask of which real-life person?

V for Vendetta (Comic Book) - TV Tropes V for Vendetta You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share Comic Book / V for Vendetta × Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. V for Vendetta is a comic by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Starting in March, 1982, it ran for 10 issues, originally in a British anthology comic called Warrior, and later in its own comic published by DC. It features several of Alan Moore's trademarks: Anarchy portrayed as a positive force, mixing fiction and historical fact, and large amounts of cynicism . It's the late 1990s in an alternate history, and Britain is ruled by a fascist government that came into power after the world went right to hell. Cameras are on every corner, surveillance vans roam the streets, and the government has long since rounded up any deviants or undesirable citizens that would otherwise taint the purity of Britain. On November 5th, 1997, a young woman named Evey Hammond, with a job that pays too little to live on and no prospect of anything better, goes out after curfew to try her hand at prostitution. A run-in with a few rapist policemen is interrupted by a mysterious man in a Guy Fawkes mask, a man who kills several of the policemen and move quickly Evey away to safety. He takes Evey to a nearby rooftop, giving her a spectacular view of his next act: blowing up the Houses of Parliament. He later brings Evey to his Elaborate Underground Base , where he introduces himself as V. Though frightened by the man at first, Evey decides to join in his campaign against the ruling powers of Britain, one that quickly spirals from a few acts of destruction into something that threatens to plunge the entire country into anarchy - which is, of course, exactly what V wants. Also featured in the story are several government officials and the people that surround them, and how the acts perpetrated by V affect their professional and personal lives. The regular citizens of Britain are also featured, for what V does to those in power affects them as well, directly or otherwise. As noted by David Lloyd in his foreword in the collected edition, this is a story for people who don't switch off the news. A film adaptation was released in 2006 with reasonably good reviews and box office success, though Moore, as with all other film adaptations of his works, publicly disowned it and asked to have his name removed from the credits. This series provides examples of: Actual Pacifist : Evey refuses to help V when she realises he's murdering people, and at the end she says of the rioting Londoners, "I won't help them kill. But I will help them build." Minor subversion, as Evey was about to shoot Alistair Harper for murdering her lover before she was captured by a disguised V. Added Alliterative Appeal : After Finch takes acid he comes up with: V: Vaulting, veering, vomiting up the values that victimized me, feeling vast, feeling virginal... was this how he felt? This verve, this vitality... this vision... La voie... la vérité... la vie.'' The name of every chapter in the novel is a word starting with the letter 'V'. After the End : Specifically, a nuclear war in 1988. While the state of the world as a whole is never directly addressed, Europe and Africa in particular are said to be "gone". Given that Africa contains little or nothing of interest to a nuclear power's targeteers, it may be surmised that the war's aftereffects have ravaged the world even more thoroughly than the weapons themselves must have. Age-Inappropriate Dress : Evey's prostitute outfit. She is only sixteen at the start of the comic and is turning to prostitution to make a living. All There in the Manual : The musical interlude, This Vicious Cabaret, pretty much outlines all of V's plans, but the initial reading makes it look like a summary of the preceding chapters. Anarchy Is Chaos : Averted . V explains in detail that traditional anarchy is not without order. There is far too much information to cover here b


What French novel is said to based on an epidemic that hit the Algerian city of Oran in 1849?

Good novels about the plague? - MobileRead Forums Good novels about the plague? User Name Tip Got Facebook? Join our MobileRead Facebook Fan Page ! Page 1 of 3 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App Good novels about the plague? I just finished Domesday Book by Connie Willis and loved it. Can anyone recommend some other good novels based around the plague?   Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you? i would recommend The Plague, by Camus. (actually, i recommend anything at all by Camus ). from wikipedia : Quote: The Plague (Fr. La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague epidemic. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace. The novel is believed to be based on the bubonic plague epidemic that killed a large percentage of Oran's population in 1849 following French colonization. Oran and its environs were struck by the plague multiple times before Camus published this novel. According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 (185 cases), 1931 (76 cases), and 1944 (95 cases), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel. The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label. The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, where individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition. Camus included a dim-witted character misreading The Trial as a mystery novel as an oblique homage. The novel has been read as a metaphorical treatment of the French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II. Although Camus's approach in the book is severe, his narrator emphasizes the ideas that we ultimately have no control, irrationality of life is inevitable, and he further illustrates the human reaction towards the ‘absurd’. The Plague represents how the world deals with the philosophical notion of the Absurd, a theory which Camus himself helped to define.


The award winning 2005 children's book And Tango Makes Three has been subject to much controversy as it was seen to be highlighting what behavior in the animal kingdom?

Banned Books A -- M Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)  ("Vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind."). Adolescents Today (1986) by John S. Dacey. The Advancement of Learning (1605) by Sir Francis Bacon. The Adventures of Captain Underpants (1997) by Dav Pilkey ("Causes unruly behavior.") The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain ("Racist." "Degrading, insensitive, and oppressive." "Use of the word 'nigger.'" Banned in 1885 in the Concord, Massachusetts library for being what the Public Library Committee called "trash". From a newspaper clipping: Boston Evening Transcript March 17, 1885 p. 6 "Huckleberry Finn" Barred Out. The Concord (Mass.) Public Library committee has decided to exclude Mark Twain's latest book from the library. One member of the committee says that, while he does not wish to call it immoral, he thinks it contains but little humor, and that of a very coarse type. He regards it as the veriest trash. The librarian and the other members of the committee entertain similar views, characterizing it as rough, coarse and inelegant, dealing with a series of experiences not elevating, the whole book being more suited to the slums that to intelligent, respectable people." Read other press items HERE . Challenged in the Normal, Illinois Community high school’s sophomore literature class in 2003 as being degrading to African Americans. Pulled from the reading lists at the three Renton, Washington high schools in 2004 after an African American student said the book degraded her and her culture. The novel, which is not required reading in Renton schools but is on a supplemental list of approved books, was eventually retained for classroom usage. Pulled from classes in Taylor, Michigan, schools [2006] because of complaints about its liberal use of common racial slurs. Challenged as required reading at Cactus High in Peoria, Arizona [2006]. The student and mother have threatened to file a civil-rights complaint because of alleged racial treatment, the segregation of the student, and the use of a racial slur in the classroom. Challenged in the Lakeville, Minnesota High School [2007] and St. Louis Park High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota [2007] as required reading for sophomores. Retained in the Manchester, Connecticut School District [2008] with the requirement that teachers attend seminars on how to deal with issues of race before teaching the book in their classrooms.) The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby (2002) by Dav Pilkey (Challenged, but retained in the Riverside, California Union School District classrooms and libraries in 2003 despite a complaint of the book's "inappropriate scatological storyline.") The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain ("Racist, dangerous." "Too full of racially charged language.") Adventures in English Literature. Aesop's Fables by Aesop (According to the legend, the Greek slave and storyteller was flung from the cliffs at Delphi for sacrilege.) A Feast for the Seaweeds (1983) by Haidar Haidar (Banned in Egypt and several other Arab states, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of Al-Azhar University upon reprinting in Egypt in the year 2000. The clerics issued a fatwa banning the novel and accused Haidar of heresy and offending Islam. Al-Azhar University students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation. -- wikipedia.) The Affluent Society (1958) by John Kenneth Galbraith ("I will do anything to thwart permissive liberalism." They should be "balanced by at least four books with conservative viewpoints.") After the First Death (1979) by Robert Cormier. The Age of Reason (1794) by Thomas Paine (More than one publisher was prosecuted for printing this book, which argues for Deism and against Christianity and Atheism. "Blasphemous." Theodore Roosevelt called Paine "a filthy little atheist.") The Agony of Alice (1985) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Alan and Naomi (1977) by Myron Levoy ("Has a sad ending.") Alas, Babylon (1959) by Pat Frank. The Alfred Summer (1980) by Jan Slepian. Alice Alone (20


In March 1989, Britain and Iran broke diplomatic relations over what reason related to literature?

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - Author Biography • Education—M.A., King's College, Cambridge, UK • Awards—Booker Prize, 1981 (named the best novel to win    the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years in 1993);    Whitbread Prize, 1988 and 1995 • Currently—lives in New York, New York Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on February 14, 1989. Rushdie was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States, where he has worked at the Emory University and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the Satanic Verses controversy. Career Rushdie's first career was as a copywriter, working for the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, where he came up with "irresistibubble" for Aero and "Naughty but Nice" for cream cakes, and for the agency Ayer Barker, for whom he wrote the memorable line "That'll do nicely" for American Express. It was while he was at Ogilvy that he wrote Midnight's Children, before becoming a full-time writer. John Hegarty of Bartle Bogle Hegarty has criticised Rushdie for not referring to his copywriting past frequently enough, although conceding: "He did write crap ads...admittedly." His first novel, Grimus, a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and literary critics. His next novel, Midnight's Children, catapulted him to literary notability. This work won the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Bookers as the best novel to have received the prize during its first 25 and 40 years. Midnight's Children follows the life of a child, born at the stroke of midnight as India gained its independence, who is endowed with special powers and a connection to other children born at the dawn of a new and tumultuous age in the history of the Indian sub-continent and the birth of the modern nation of India. The character of Saleem Sinai has been compared to Rushdie. However, the author has refuted the idea of having written any of his characters as autobiographical, stating... People assume that because certain things in the character are drawn from your own experience, it just becomes you. In that sense, I’ve never felt that I’ve written an autobiographical character. After Midnight's Children, Rushdie wrote Shame, in which he depicts the political turmoil in Pakistan, basing his characters on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Shame won France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book) and was a close runner-up for the Booker Prize. Both these works of postcolonial literature are characterised by a style of magic realism and the immigrant outlook that Rushdie is very conscious of as a member of the Indian diaspora. Rushdie wrote a non-fiction book about Nicaragua in 1987 called The Jaguar Smile. This book has a political focus and is based on his first-hand experiences and research at the scene of Sandinista political experiments. His most controversial work, The Satanic Verses, was published in 1988 (see below). Rushdie has published many short stories, including those collected in East, West (1994). The Moor's Last Sigh, a family epic ranging over some 100 years of India's histor


Polydactyl cats (born with more than the usual number of toes) are associated with which writer who was known for his love for them?

Polydactyl Cats | PoC Polydactyl Cats by Michael Broad Polydactyl cats have more than the usual number of toes. The normal number is five on each of the paws of the front limbs and four on each of the paws of the hind limbs. Polydactyl cats have 6 or 7 on the front and 5 on the rear. They have strikingly over-sized paws and Catherine has described her cat, Big Foot , who certainly has one of the biggest paws that I have seen. It seems that the extra toes can lead some cats to being more dextrous with their paws. Valley Girl lives with a polydactyl Maine Coon, Tootsie, and talks about this (new window). It is said that the extra dexterity comes from opposable inner toes in some polydactyl cats. Human thumbs are opposable because they can touch the fingers. They move in a different direction (towards the fingers) which allows us to grasp things. The same applies to cats that are polydactyl. Is it possible that this ability to be more dexterous has indirectly made these cats smarter through using their paws to grasp objects etc.? See too: Cat Intelligence . I think that there are four natural topics to discuss on this subject: their origins, what causes polydactylism, whether there are any associated health problems and what about the breeding of this cat? Incidentally, two other names (there are more) for cats with more than the usual number of toes are: Cardi cats – named after Cardiganshire in South West Wales (UK) where there is a higher than average population of polydactyl cats. This is perhaps because this was and is a shipping area and sailors considered these cats better mousers and so they were ships cats. Hemingway cats – the author Ernest Hemingway who kept cats one of which was polydactyl. These is now a colony of them. See American Polydactyl Cats (new window). Origin of Polydactyl cats Well, some Americans say that they are unique to the United States, which is not true – sorry – I hope the special relationship is not damaged. They are found in the UK and in Europe generally and why not? Genetic mutations of domestic cats have no reason to be confined to North America, surely. There is the argument that they were imported with the Puritan settlers that landed near Boston. Although others argue that these cats were already there. However, it is now accepted that the domestic cat comes from the European and African-Asian, wildcats. This being the case it would mean that the importation theory must be correct. The importation theory is supported by clusters of polydactyl cats in places where ships from Boston would have travelled to at the time (1600s and later), namely Yarmouth, Massachusetts and Halifax, Nova Scotia . See map below: Charles Darwin referred to six-toed cats in his book The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1. The book was published in the 1850s apparently. Although the cat fancy had yet to really start deliberate cat breeding at this time, breeding was probably taking place in England before then. It is said breeding of cats in Paraguay started 300 years earlier! How – genes Polydactyl cats carry a mutated dominant gene – Pd – that causes this congenital defect, charming though it is. Although this (according to Robinson’s Genetics) is the only known gene, implying there may be others. The authors of Robinson’s genetics say that this condition may not be caused by a single mutant gene There are two forms (a) extra digits on the inside (thumb side) and (b) on the outside. This is a dominant gene with variable expression. One of the expressions of the gene causes harmful medical conditions such as radial hypoplasia . There is a cat type called the Twisty Cat that is controversial and which is an example of one of the various types of expression of this gene. Polydactyl hind feet only exist when the condition is present in the forelimbs. Breeding There are breeders who want to create a distinct breed from polydactyl cats. There is the American Polydactyl Cat for instance and another is the Ithacats. One breeder I think worth mentioning is Polypaws (new window). They seem


What is the name of the castle in Mervyn Peake's series of fantasy novels that has now come to mean any sprawling complex?

Titus Groan Audiobook | Mervyn Peake | Audible.com "Count Me Among the Peake Fans" As others have noted, Peake is often spoken of in the same breath as Tolkein. They are undoubtedly two of the greatest English fantasy novelists of the twentieth century. But rather than thinking of Peake as similar to Tolkein, it's perhaps best to think of him as the anti-Tolkein. Both Peake and Tolkein are great at what they do, but they're up to rather different things. If The Lord of the Rings is a basically celebratory series that focuses on plot, Peake's Gormenghast books (not, by design, a trilogy, but the first three books of a longer series cut short by Peake's untimely death) are deeply cynical and are about character and, above all, setting. While Tolkein's world is full of magic, monsters, and a variety of non-human races, Peake's is largely without all these things. I'm a longtime Tolkein fan who is now also a Peake fan. Plenty of people appreciate the qualities of both authors. But others love one and detest the other. For example, the great British novelist Michael Moorcock is a proponent of Peake and a detractor of Tolkein. At any rate, this book is a classic that deserves a listen by those prepared for something un-Middle Earth-y. And Robert Whitfield's reading is truly outstanding, as he effectively brings to life the many characters who populate Peake's book. "A great book ,no cliches, worth the effort" I completely understand why a lot of readers would give this book a low rating. Many readers, and especially readers of fantasy, get very comfortable with the presence of cliches, and this book just doesn't give them any. Titus Groan doesn't have a grand good vs evil narrative, there is no sword play, nor wizards, nor damsels in distress, nor teenager-saves-the-world narrative. You get none of the usual formulas. The action is sparse, the language is thick, and the world is just sort of weird. It's not something that an average teenage fantasy fan will enjoy. With that said, Titus Groan is a fantasy masterpiece. In its weird way, it's every bit as rich as Tolkien or Rowling. The characters are bizarrely entertaining, and the challenges they face are, if not quite the all-encompassing fight for civilization, nonetheless poignant and intriguing. As strange as the novel is, it feels more real than most fantasy. Titus Groan is a novel without a contrived road-map, and it is as much high literature as it is fantasy. Good literature is challenging: it forces you to think, and if you engage in it, it is far more rewarding than a thousand sword and sorcerer novels. Readers who think in cliches will either fail to understand the novel or will grow frustrated at the meandering plot. But for those who like a challenge, who enjoy reading about a fantastical world for its own sake, and who have an attention span that hasn't been crippled by frenetic, pop-culture oriented fantasies, this book is well worth it. It's strange and rich and utterly unlike anything you're ever going to see again. It's beautiful. "The Pleasures of a Rich & Vivid Baroque Nightmare" Mervyn Peake???s Titus Groan (1946) is unique. Dense, funny, sad, hermetic, and epic, it stands alone in the landscape of literature, like the labyrinthine, ???umbrageous,??? and craggy castle Gormenghast, in which the Groan family of earls and their servants and workers are ruled by iron tradition and obscure ritual. The novel begins with the birth of Titus, the unsmiling son of Sepulchrave, the 76th Earl, and with the escape of Steerpike, the amoral, clever, and ambitious kitchen boy. These events initiate ???that most unforgivable of all heresies,??? change. Peake writes the stifled life of the decaying castle and its grotesque inhabitants with humor and empathy. And with intense detail, so that it might be difficult for a first time reader/listener to enter Peake???s world of baroque descriptions and bizarre yet apt metaphors. But the persevering reader drawn more to the strange pleasures of a poet-painter???s skewed imagination than to the familiar excitements


Chekov's play Three Sisters is said to have been inspired by which real life siblings?

Three Sisters - under the skin | The Independent Features Three Sisters - under the skin A radical version of Chekhov's classic of family ennui premieres tonight. Alice Jones meets the actresses following in famous footsteps Friday 7 September 2012 23:00 BST Click to follow Three Sisters - under the skin 1/2 Three Sisters Three Sisters Three Sisters Traditionalists should look away now. Or at least have the smelling salts to hand. Tonight a radical new version of Three Sisters opens at the Young Vic in London, with three rapidly rising stars – Mariah Gale, Vanessa Kirby and Gala Gordon – in the lead roles. The director is Benedict Andrews, celebrated wild child of the Sydney theatre scene, now making a name for himself over here with his ultra-modern, iconoclastic productions. In the last year he has put Cate Blanchett in a tutu and had her pirouette across the Barbican's stage in Gross und Klein, retooled Caligula as a gold-Kalashnikov-toting cross between Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi at the ENO, and given Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses the Tarantino treatment at the Young Vic. The last time he tackled Chekhov – The Seagull at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney last summer – he set the action in a shack on Bondi Beach and had the characters call each other “mate”. So it's safe to assume that his Three Sisters will not be a museum piece. A trailer online which shows the three sisters dressed to kill in designer ball-gowns, sloshing vodka into each other's mouths, pawing at cake, and whirling around like blissed-out ravers, suggests a more sophisticated name-day party for Irina than the traditional samovar and spinning top. And then there's Andrews's script, which has Masha bemoaning her “mindless fucking boredom,” replaces lines from Pushkin's “Ruslan and Ludmila” with Bowie's “Golden Years” and peppers speeches with references to the telly and Leonard Cohen lyrics. “I expect it will be met by a certain degree of consternation. Or even anger,” says Gale, who plays the oldest sister, Olga. “But why not take a risk? Why not do a Marmite production that you might love or hate?” chips in Gordon, aka little sister Irina. “Yes. Why do you want to watch people going round in corsets, [then] leave at the end of the evening thinking: 'What a story. They were sad, weren't they?'” asks Vanessa Kirby, middle sister Masha. So they won't be wearing corsets? “No!” Aside from Andrews's bold staging, this feisty threesome is the main reason to get excited by the latest Chekhov revival. It's not a casting coup along the lines of the Cusack siblings or the Redgrave relatives (see box), but it's an exciting prospect nonetheless. Gale, 33, is an accomplished Shakespearean actress best known for playing a superlative Ophelia to David Tennant's Hamlet in 2008, and, more recently, a Converse-wearing Juliet at the RSC (her Romeo, Sam Troughton, also appears in Three Sisters, as Tuzenbach). Kirby, 24, was last seen on stage in The Acid Test at the Royal Court but is known to most from her television roles, including a brief but memorable debut as the murdered debutante in The Hour and as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations, opposite Douglas Booth (who subsequently became her boyfriend). Gordon, 21, is the baby of the family, fresh out of drama school. She finished at Guildhall in July and started rehearsals on this, her professional debut, three weeks later. Today, tumbling out of the rehearsal room on their lunch break, all barefoot, with long hair messily piled up, they don't look particularly alike but you can see exactly why Andrews cast them. Gordon, half South American, is the dark-eyed, sincere one, Kirby the blonde, feline one, prone to wild outbursts, Gale the regally still one – pale, thoughtful and softly spoken. “Benedict said he looked for the essence of the character in whoever walked through the door,” she says. “And I think he got it really well.” “Gemma Arterton came out of the room before my audition and I thought, 'there is no way in hell I'm getting this role,'” gossips Kirby, through a mouthful of sush


Misselthwaite Manor is the chief locale of what beloved children's novel that tells the coming of age story of Mary Lennox?

Gardens, Products and The secret garden on Pinterest "It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.” - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett #franceshodgsonburnett #fanart See More


The year 1819 is significant for lovers of English poetry because of the publication of six famous odes by whom?

John Keats - John Keats Poems - Poem Hunter John Keats - John Keats Poems - Poem Hunter Do you like this poet? John Keats Poems A Thing Of Beauty (Endymion)  A thing of beauty is a joy for ... Bright Star   Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou ... When I Have Fears  When I have fears that I may cease to be ... Ode On A Grecian Urn   Thou still unravish'd bride of ... His Last Sonnet  Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou ... All poems of John Keats » Search in the poems of John Keats: John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death. Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life, his reputation grew after his death, so that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life. The poetry of Keats ... more » Click here to add this poet to your My Favorite Poets. Quotations more quotations » ''Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.'' John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Oct. 9, 1818. Letters of John Keats, no. 90, ed. Frederick Page (1954).  Despite Shelley's assertion ... I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religionI have shuddered at it. I shudder no moreI could be martyred for my religionLove is my religionI could die for tha... John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Oct. 13, 1819, to his fiancée Fanny Brawne. Letters of John Keats, no. 160, ed. Frederick Page (1954). ''Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?'' John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Feb. 14-May 3, 1819, to his brother and sister-in-law, George and Georgiana Keats. Letters of John Keats... ''It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.'' John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Feb. 19, 1818. Letters of John Keats, no. 48, ed. Frederick Page (1954). ''You speak of Lord Byron and methere is this great difference between us. He describes what he seesI describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.'' John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Sept. 17-27, 1819, to his brother and sister-in-law George and Georgiana Keats. The Letters of John Keat...


Which writer wrote the introduction for Robert Frank's influential photography book The Americans (1958) that contained images from Frank's travels across the US?

Robert Frank | Art Blart | Page 2 Exhibition dates: 13th September – 11th December 2013 . “I’m not trying to do something to you, I’m trying to do something with you.” . American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett at a concert in Melbourne, 1970s . . LEE FRIEDLANDER IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHERS THAT HAS EVER LIVED. The vision of this man is incredible. His complex, classical photographs in such books as  Letters from the People (1993), Flowers and Trees (1981),  The American Monument  (1976) and America by Car (2010) have redefined the (photographic) landscape. The artist is constantly reinventing himself, reinventing pictorial space – cutting, distorting, reflecting it back onto itself – to create layered images (after Eugène Atget and Walker Evans). These self-reflective spaces are as much about the artist and his nature as they are about the world in which he lives. They have become the basis of Friedlander’s visual language. Here is a love of the medium and of the world that is a reflection of Self. I don’t see these cars (or photographs) as illusion factories. For me, this series of work is akin to a tri-view self-portrait. Instead of the artist painting the sitter (as in the triple portrait of Cardinal Richelieu, 1627 below), a vision, an energy of Self emanates outwards from behind the bulwark of the car steering wheel and dash. It is a Self and its relationship to the world split into multifaceted angles and views. He looks out the left window, the front window, the side window – and then he splits his views between side and front windows using the A pillar of the car as a dividing, framing tool. Sometimes he throws in the reflections of him/self with camera in the rear view mirror for good measure. There is wit, humour and irony in these photographs. There is cinematic panorama and moments of intimacy. There is greatness in these images. Friedlander is not trying to do something to you, but something with you, for he is showing you something that you inherently know but may not be aware of. Like a Zen master, he asks you questions but also shows you the way. If you understand the path of life and the energy of the cosmos, you understand what a journey this is. Dr Marcus Bunyan for the Art Blart blog . Many thankx to Foam for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. . From the series America by Car, 1995-2009 Gelatin silver print 15 × 15 in. (38.1 × 38.1 cm) Collection of the artist; courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco . . “The automobile has come to symbolise the American dream and the associated urge for freedom. It is therefore no surprise that cars play a central role in the series America by Car and The New Cars 1964 by renowned American photographer Lee Friedlander (1934, US), now receiving their first showing in the Netherlands. . Road Trip America by Car documents Friedlander’s countless wanderings around the United States over the past decade. In this he follows a trail laid down by numerous photographers, film makers and writers like Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Jack Kerouac. Friedlander nevertheless succeeds in giving the theme of the American road trip his own very original twist, using the cars’ windscreens and dashboards to frame the familiar American landscape, as well as exploiting the reflections found in their wing and rear view mirrors. It is a simple starting point which results in complex and layered images that are typical for Friedlander’s visual language. He also has a sharp eye for the ironic detail. He makes free use of text on billboards and symbols on store signs to add further meaning to his work. His images are so layered that new information continues to surface with every glance, making America by Car a unique evocation of contemporary America. . Car portraits The New Cars 1964 is a much older series. Friedlander had been commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar to photograph all the new models of automobile introduced in 1964. Rather t


In Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola, the children's tale of magic gone awry, a town in Italy is buried in an avalanche of what?

⋙Read Strega Nona (Strega Nona #1) by Tomie dePaola Online Download - SOUKOVS.REVIEW Soukovs.review Strega Nona (Strega Nona #1) by Tomie dePaola Strega Nona (Strega Nona #1) Title : Strega Nona (Strega Nona #1) ISBN : 8424133498 (ISBN13: 9788424133498 ) Strega Nona (Strega Nona #1) Summary Published March 28th 1999 by Everest De Ediciones Y Distribucion (first published January 1st 1975) When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works. Download: Strega Nona (Strega Nona #1) Advertisements Strega Nona (Strega Nona #1) Reviews Ronyell “Strega Nona” created in 1975 by Tomie dePaola, was the author’s first book about the kind and elderly “grandma witch.” This book has since been a popular favorite among children and has won the Caldecott Honor Book Award for its excellence in writing and in its drawing. Strega Nona is sure to be a hit with both children and adults. Tomie dePaola does an awesome job at creating a story that is humorous and exciting at the same time. Big Anthony humorously plays the role of a tragic hero as he at first was able to feed the townspeople all the pasta they desired, but then ends up nearly destroying the town when he did not listen to Strega Nona’s warnings about the pasta pot. Strega Nona also acted as a savior to the people when she saved the town from the pasta and therefore saving their lives. Tomie dePaola’s illustrations are simply delightful as he illustrates Strega Nona as a helpful and intelligent old woman with an old-fashioned apron around her and Big Anthony as a big and klutzy man who seems to have wild blond hair. “Strega Nona” is a wonderful story about the consequences of not listening to certain warnings that could endanger people’s lives. Also, this book shows the importance of respecting one’s elders as the villagers respect Strega Nona’s wisdom on cures and life. “Strega Nona” is surely an excellent book for learning about folktales around the world, since the story is supposedly from Italy and will enchant adults and children five years or older for many generations. Review is also on: Rabbit Ears Book Blog Lisa Vegan Listen, pay attention, and follow instructions, or there may be negative consequences; in this case, pasta might take over the world. I have enjoyed this author/illustrator’s other books and his illustrations work so well in this story. I love that this tale isn’t scary, doesn’t have any villains, and that there is a positive message. The story really is very amusing, and it’s fun to read aloud. I never knew a book that makes pasta look both so appealing and unappealing. I love the magic pot! My kind of cooking! Chris What's not to love about this book? It's a great story. My acquitance with this book occured, not when I was at the targeted age, but when my brother was. My brother loved spagetti as a young child (he still loves it). He had so many books that dealt with spagetti, including a real annoying one More Spaghetti, I Say!. He had to be read these books constantly. Honestly, I can still recite parts of them by heart. The words are burnt into what passes for my brain. There was one huge but. When you read a story to my brother, you couldn't say spagetti. Nope, you couldn't say it at all. You had to say "getti getti". If you didn't say getti getti bad things happened. The sky darkened. The sun and moon traded places. The rivers ran backward. The fish ate oranges. The spagetti getti getti would be undercooked. Bad things. Real bad things. The one really, really, really good thing about Strega Nona was that it is a charming story that doesn't get old. A charming story that is still charming even with the use of the word getti getti. I still like this book despite having to read one too many times. midnightfaerie A book that didn't hold my children's attention as well as I would have liked. It's a Caldecott award winner and deserving of it, the pictures detailed and fun, but for the most part, I think maybe it used too many of the same color scheme, because many of the pages looked


"What 1949 American work that is now a benchmark of the ecological movement is best known for the quote ""A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.""?"

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists Nov 19, 2009 Chris rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition How is it possible that I earned a BS in natural resources (and slipping toward an MS in wildlife) without being required to read this book? Aldo Leopold is often called the father of wildlife management. But Sand County Almanac is not a text book, with nary a glossary, set of models, or flow chart within its pages. It does contain some pretty drawings, and some spellbinding imagery. Leopold goes beyond vividly describing a scene of chopping wood or canoeing a river; he pans back to ecological c How is it possible that I earned a BS in natural resources (and slipping toward an MS in wildlife) without being required to read this book? Aldo Leopold is often called the father of wildlife management. But Sand County Almanac is not a text book, with nary a glossary, set of models, or flow chart within its pages. It does contain some pretty drawings, and some spellbinding imagery. Leopold goes beyond vividly describing a scene of chopping wood or canoeing a river; he pans back to ecological connectivity or the aesthetic importance of the natural world to humanity. He talks about the need for a land ethic, and it sounds very logical and obvious-- I have to remind myself that he wrote these essays before such a mindset was commonplace. Even if his views were not completely original for the time, he is undoubtedly remembered for being so darn eloquent. A master of the one-liner, it's no wonder that all of my nat res classes seemed to quote him several times each semester (and some classes on a weekly basis). I feel sheepish for not reading it much earlier in my career, but I'm very glad I picked it up. He was a remarkable naturalist and writer. I can see him clearly, squatting in ice-crusted mud before dawn breaks over the marsh, his shotgun poking through the reeds and ears open to the sounds of approaching waterfowl, all the while silently creating poetry. ...more Mar 02, 2009 Adeline rated it really liked it Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac is a compelling blend of beautiful depictions of nature, personal opinion and reflection, and political commentary. Leopold extols the beauty of nature and emphasizes how much humans are a part of it. As members of the natural world, humans have a dramatic effect on the environment, and Leopold does not shy away from this issue. Rather than advocate for total preservation of wilderness, Leopold expresses the value of hunting and using the resources present in Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac is a compelling blend of beautiful depictions of nature, personal opinion and reflection, and political commentary. Leopold extols the beauty of nature and emphasizes how much humans are a part of it. As members of the natural world, humans have a dramatic effect on the environment, and Leopold does not shy away from this issue. Rather than advocate for total preservation of wilderness, Leopold expresses the value of hunting and using the resources present in the wild. Hunting, he argues, is actually a way to become more attuned to the subtleties of a natural environment. Leopold's commentary about how nature should be used is one of the most striking things about the book, second only to the reverent appreciation of nature that he expresses. Leopold depicts hunting as a meditative process in which the hunter becomes part of his environment and develops an understanding of and respect for his prey. This seems reasonable, despite my personal instinct that an environmentalist must be against hunting. Of course, Leopold cannot condone all methods of hunting. The new age of “gadgeteers” (214) and the hunters who buy their wares are not in tune with nature. Leopold wonders if they are “absorbing cultural value” or “just feeding minks” with the birds missed by their hasty shots (215). It is interesting to hear someone with such respect for nature also acknowledge that he enjoys killing animals. I didn't particularly respect t


What 300 BC book from ancient Greece that was essential reading for students for centuries was said to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published?

Euclid's Elements : Map (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki Wikipedia article: Map showing all locations mentioned on Wikipedia article: Euclid's Elements ( Greek : ) is a mathematical and geometric treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria circa 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates ( axioms ), propositions ( theorems and constructions ), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. The thirteen books cover Euclidean geometry and the ancient Greek version of elementary number theory . With the exception of Autolycus' On the Moving Sphere, the Elements is one of the oldest extant Greek mathematical treatises and it is the oldest extant axiomatic deductive treatment of mathematics . It has proven instrumental in the development of logic and modern science . Euclid's Elements is the most successful and influential textbook ever written. Being first set in type in Venice in 1482, it is one of the very earliest mathematical works to be printed after the invention of the printing press and is estimated to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published, with the number reaching well over one thousand. It was used as the basic text on geometry throughout the Western world for about 2,000 years. For centuries, when the quadrivium was included in the curriculum of all university students, knowledge of at least part of Euclid's Elements was required of all students. Not until the 20th century, by which time its content was universally taught through school books, did it cease to be considered something all educated people had read. History Basis in earlier work Scholars believe that the Elements is largely a collection of theorems proved by other mathematicians supplemented by some original work. Proclus , a Greek mathematician who lived several centuries after Euclid, wrote in his commentary of the Elements: "Euclid, who put together the Elements, collecting many of Eudoxus ' theorems, perfecting many of Theaetetus ', and also bringing to irrefragable demonstration the things which were only somewhat loosely proved by his predecessors". Pythagoras was probably the source of most of books I and II, Hippocrates of book III, and Eudoxus book V, while books IV, VI, XI, and XII probably came from other Pythagorean or Athenian mathematicians. Euclid often replaced fallacious proofs with his own, more rigorous versions. The use of definitions, postulates, and axioms dated back to Plato . The Elements may have been based on an earlier textbook by Hippocrates of Chios (not the better known Hippocrates of Kos ), who also may have originated the use of letters to refer to figures. Transmission of the text In the fourth century C.E. Theon of Alexandria produced an edition of Euclid which was so widely used that it became the only surviving source until François Peyrard 's 1808 discovery at the Vatican of a manuscript not derived from Theon's. Although known to, for instance, Cicero , there is no extant record of the text having been translated into Latin prior to Boethius in the fifth or sixth century. The Arabs received the Elements from the Byzantines in approximately 760; this version, by a pupil of Euclid called Proclo , was translated into Arabic under Harun al Rashid circa 800 AD. The Byzantine scholar Arethas commissioned the copying of one of the extant Greek manuscripts of Euclid in the late ninth century. Although known in Byzantium, the Elements was lost to Western Europe until ca. 1120, when the English monk Adelard of Bath translated it into Latin from an Arabic translation. The first printed edition appeared in 1482 (based on Giovanni Campano's 1260 edition), and since then it has been translated into many languages and published in about a thousand different editions. Theon's Greek edition was recovered in 1533. In 1570, John Dee provided a widely respected "Mathematical Preface", along with copious notes and supplementary material, to the first English edition by Henry Billingsley . Copies of the Greek text still exist, some of which can be found in the


A controversial 1994 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein whose premise is that genes and environment are predictors of intelligence is titled after what statistical function?

Upstream: Upstream: Issues: Bell Curve: Sowell IQ Since "The Bell Curve" Christopher F. Chabris THIS PAST January, Governor Zell Miller of Georgia asked his legislature for enough money to give a cassette or CD of classical music to every newborn child in the state. The governor cited scientific evidence to support this unusual budget request. "There's even a study," he declared in his State of the State address, "that showed that after college students listened to a Mozart piano sonata for ten minutes, their IQ scores increased by nine points." And he added: "Some argue that it didn't last, but no one doubts that listening to music, especially at a very early age, affects the spatial-temporal reasoning that underlies math, engineering, and chess." The so-called "Mozart effect" is one of the most publicized recent examples of our ongoing preoccupation with intelligence, a subject that not only refuses to go away but continues to raise whirlwinds of controversy. The largest such controversy, of course, surrounds The Bell Curve (1994), by the late Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. A mountain of essays and books purporting to refute that work and its conclusions grows and grows to this day. But now we also have the magnum opus of Arthur Jensen,1 a leading figure in IQ research and, like Herrnstein and Murray, a favorite target of academic liberals, as well as a posthumous volume by another leading IQ researcher, Hans Eysenck.2 So it is a good moment to look again at what we know, what we do not know, and what we think we know about this vexed subject. IN The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray set out to prove that American society was becoming increasingly meritocratic, in the sense that wealth and other positive social outcomes were being distributed more and more according to people's intelligence and less and less according to their social backgrounds. Furthermore, to the extent that intelligence was not subject to easy environmental control, but was instead difficult to modify and even in part inherited, genetic differences among individuals, Herrnstein and Murray posited, would contribute significantly to their futures. The evidence for this thesis came largely from an analysis of data compiled in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), an ongoing federal project that tested over 10,000 Americans in 1980, with follow-up interviews regularly thereafter. Each participant completed the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT)--which, like any diverse test of mental ability, can be used as a measure of intelligence--and was then evaluated for subsequent social outcomes (including high-school graduation, level of income, likelihood of being in jail, likelihood of getting divorced, and so forth). As a rule, a person's intelligence turned out to predict such outcomes more strongly than did the socio economic status of his parents. This relationship held for all ethnic groups; indeed, when intelligence was statistically controlled, many "outcome" differences among ethnic groups vanished. Herrnstein, a professor of psychology at Harvard with an impeccable reputation for scientific integrity, died of cancer just a week before The Bell Curve arrived in bookstores. This in itself may have had something to do with the frenzy of the public response. Had Herrnstein lived to participate in the debate, critics might have found the book harder to malign than it became when Murray, whose training was not in psychology but in sociology, was left to promote and defend it by himself. Not that Murray, the author of Losing Ground (1984) and a vocal critic of the liberal welfare state, failed to do so energetically. But his lack of credentials as a hard scientist, and his overabundant credentials as a scourge of liberalism, made him a tempting target for an attack that was itself motivated as much by political as by scientific differences, and that was almost entirely focused on a side-issue in the book. That side-issue was differences in intelligence not among individuals but among groups--and specifically between whites and blacks


The central character of which 1919 novel is the reporter George Willard to whom the denizens of a certain American Midwest town confide their secrets?

American Lit. Outline by Douglas Chandler - issuu issuu Chapter One Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales, and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures. There was no written literature among the more than 500 different Indian languages and tribal cultures that existed in North America before the first Europeans arrived. As a result, Native American oral literature is quite diverse. Narratives from quasi-nomadic hunting cultures like the Navajo are different from stories of settled agricultural tribes such as the pueblo-dwelling Acoma; the stories of northern lakeside dwellers such as the Ojibwa often differ radically from stories of desert tribes like the Hopi. Tribes maintained their own religions -- worshipping gods, animals, plants, or sacred persons. Systems of government ranged from democracies to councils of elders to theocracies. These tribal variations enter into the oral literature as well. Still, it is possible to make a few generalizations. Indian stories, for example, glow with reverence for nature as a spiritual as well as physical mother. Nature is alive and endowed with spiritual forces; main characters may be animals or plants, often totems associated with a tribe, group, or individual. The closest to the Indian sense of holiness in later American literature is Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendental "Over-Soul," which pervades all of life. The Mexican tribes revered the divine Quetzalcoatl, a god of the Toltecs and Aztecs, and some tales of a high god or culture were told elsewhere. However, there are no long, standardized religious cycles about one supreme divinity. The closest equivalents to Old World spiritual narratives are often accounts of shamans initiations and voyages. Apart from these, there are stories about culture heroes such as the Ojibwa tribe's Manabozho or the Navajo tribe's Coyote. These tricksters are treated with varying degrees of respect. In one tale they may act like heroes, while in another they may seem selfish or foolish. Although past authorities, such as the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, have deprecated trickster tales as expressing the inferior, amoral side of the psyche, contemporary scholars -- some of them Native Americans -- point out that Odysseus and Prometheus, the revered Greek heroes, are essentially tricksters as well. Examples of almost every oral genre can be found in American Indian literature: lyrics, chants, myths, fairy tales, humorous anecdotes, incantations, riddles, proverbs, epics, and legendary histories. Accounts of migrations and ancestors abound, as do vision or healing songs and tricksters' tales. Certain creation stories are particularly popular. In one well-known creation story, told with variations among many tribes, a turtle holds up the world. In a Cheyenne version, the creator, Maheo, has four chances to fashion the world from a watery universe. He sends four water birds diving to try to bring up earth from the bottom. The snow goose, loon, and mallard soar high into the sky and sweep down in a dive, but cannot reach bottom; but the little coot, who cannot fly, succeeds in bringing up some mud in his bill. Only one creature, humble Grandmother Turtle, is the right shape to support the mud world Maheo shapes on her shell -- hence the Indian name for America, "Turtle Island." The songs or poetry, like the narratives, range from the sacred to the light and humorous: There are lullabies, war chants, love songs, and special songs for children's games, gambling, various chores, magic, or dance ceremonials. Generally the songs are repetitive. Short poem-songs given in dreams sometimes have the clear imagery and subtle mood associated with Japanese haiku or Eastern-influenced imagistic poetry. A Chippewa song runs: A loon I thought it was But it was My love's splashing oar. Vision songs, often very short, are another distinctive form. Appearing in dreams or visions, sometimes with no warning, they may be healing, hunting, or love songs. Often they are personal, as in this Mod


The text of what ancient classic is a set of oracular statements represented by 64 sets of six hexagrams, with each hexagram in turn composed of six lines of Yangs or Yins?

Sequence of the Hexagrams [Archive] - I Ching Community rosada January 13th, 2008, 02:43 PM In my recent efforts to memorize the IMAGES as translated by Wilhelm I have been becoming more aware of the sequence and the story it appears to tell. However, I understand the standard sequence we all use is not the only one considered valid. Can anyone give me a little background on why we use the sequence we do and any thoughts on alternative patterns? sergio January 14th, 2008, 06:56 PM Hello Rosada; there is a lot of excellentinformation about sequences in Steve Marshall's site and I'm pretty sure there was a very interesting blog by Hilary on that subject not so long ago.Also check Richard S.Cook on "Chinese Combinatorics" if you understand and speak fluid gibberish(the book is probably understood by Cook and his close friends only) and a series of very interesting thoughts on it by Frank Keegan.Also J Van de Berghe's site tackles the subject admirably.Nobody has arrived (yet)to a satisfactory answer to that question you posed.With all due respect from a junior member to a senior member I thought you already knew about all this.In any case ,check all this avenues and you will have some answers and many more questions.But I agree with Hilary on this one:the sequence is irrelevant.Historically there seems to be -or had been -three different sequences.The one we use now is the received sequence from the Imperial edition-Kang SHI -1715.Have fun! Sergio rosada January 15th, 2008, 03:50 AM Thank you Sergio. I was able to check out the Steve Marshall site but all I came up with was explanations of why the arrangement of the hexagrams made sence mathmatically. (I may not have explored his site sufficiently.) What I am wanting to know is if there is an agreed upon plot line to the hexagram sequence. Wilhelm gives an explanation for why each hexagram follows the one before it in the second half of his translation but I don't find these explanations very satisfactory. They seem far fetched. For example, in discribing why 5.Waiting should follow 4.Youthful Folly we're told, "When things are still small, one must not leave them without nourishment. Hence there follows the hexagram Hsu. Hsu means the way to eating and drinking." This just doesn't satisfy me. I mean, I don't think the obvious next step when one is dealing with Folly is to say, "Well give the kid a sandwich." I can come up with my own reason for linking Youthful Folly to Waiting. I would say "When one is new to a situation asking questions wont always bring clarity. Sometimes when you are young or new you just have to be patient, you just have to Wait until you see a pattern that shows you what to do next." And perhaps you could add that when you are waiting you might as well enjoy yourself, hense the eating and drinking and good cheer... And then look at the next explanation Wilhelm gives for why 5. Waiting leads to 6. Conflict, "Over meat and drink there is certain to be conflict." Come on, that's just plain not true. In my version, I would say Waiting leads to the resolution of Conflict. That is when things are not moving ahead and we find we're stalled, having to wait gives an opportunity to discuss our plans and intentions, to go back as Conflict's IMAGE advises and, "Carefully consider the beginning," that is review original intentions so we can figure out why our intentions are manefesting as they are, understand what is causing the delay, the conflict, and thus see what we need to do to disentangle the blockage. Thus: 4. the Young Fool who can't get his questions answered is guided to 5. Wait until things become a bit more clear by themselves and they will become more clear if he   considers that 6.the world around him is the manefestation of his own original intention. Once he recognizes that, once the Fool realizes he created the delays and conflicts with his own half completed mixed signals, then he knows how to... 7. Get personally involved so as to sort out the confusion. Is Wilhelm giving his own ideas when he talks about The Sequence, or is this a transla


What is the better known nickname of Greg Heffley whose hilarious memoirs are now a hit book franchise?

Easylib: Librarian to Bangalore, Hyderabad, and more - India's first online library Look who’s playing first base by Matt Christopher Soccer Scoop by Matt Christopher The Witches by Roald Dahl The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and six more Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Matilda by Roald Dahl Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J Sobol Funny and Funnier by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Goosebumps by R L Stine Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Roderick Rules by Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a Novel in Cartoons by Jeff Kinney X Men by Paul Mantell Who is Stealing the 12 Days of Christmas by Martha Freeman Homer Price by Robert McClosekey Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty Pressure Play by Matt Christopher Windmill Windup by Matt Christopher The BFG by Roald Dahl The Wolfbay Wings by Bruce Brooks Five Go Down to Sea by Enid Blyton Kristy’s Great Idea by Ann M Martin Mary Ann Saves the Day by Ann M Martin Dawn and the School Spirit War by Ann M Martin Jessi and the Jewel Thieves by Ann M Martin The Fire of Friendship by Elizabeth Lenhard Five go to Demon’s Rocks by Enid Blyton Five Have a Mystery to Solve by Enid Blyton Kristy and the Missing Child by Ann M Martin Five Go Adventuring Again by Enid Blyton Jessi and the Troublemaker by Ann M Martin Dawn and the Surfer Ghost by Ann M Martin Jessi’s Babysitter by Ann M Martin Claudia and The Phantom Phone Calls by Ann M Martin The Truth About Stacy by Ann M Martin Claudia and the World’s Cutest Baby by Ann M Martin The Hardy Boys- The Pentagon Spy by Franklin W Dickson The Hardy Boys- Training for Trouble by Franklin W Dickson How to Read a Person Like a Book by Gerald I The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Dr Arthur Conan Doyle King Lear by William Shakespeare Great Ignited Minds by A.P.J Abdul Kalam The Three Investigators by Alfred Hitchcock Tell me Where? Collins Pub. Ramayana by Swami Chinmadbhavananda Full House Michelle- My Fourth grade Mess by Cathy E D Full House Michelle- The Substitute Teacher by Cathy E D Full House Stephanie- Modeling Contest by Nino Alexander Stella the Star Fairy by Daisy Meadows Blubber by Judy Blume Beazus and Ramona by Beverly Clearly Surfs Up by Christie Perry Junie. B Jones- Aloha-Ha-Ha by Barbara Park My Secret Unicorn- Friends Forever by Linda Chapman Ballet Surprise by Jean Waricha Full House Michelle- My Best Friend is a Movie Star by Cathy E D Double Truoble by Sue Bentley Jasmine Trots Ahead by Bonnie Bryant Holly the Christmas fairy by Daisy Meadows Kylie the Carnival Fairy by Daisy Meadows Full House Michelle- The Babysitting by Cathy E D Karen’s Pizza Party by Ann M Martin Karen’s Newspaper by Ann M Martin Heidi by John Spyri Black Beauty by Anna Sewell A to Z Mysteries- Lucky Lottery by Ron Roy Big Bug Fun by Joanne Oppenheim A to Z Mysteries- The Bald Bandit by Ron Roy Magic Tree House- Tonight on the Titanic by Mary Pope Osborne Nate the Great- Snowy Trail by Majorie Sharmat Horrible Harry in Room 28 by Suzz Mystery Vacation by Doug Cushman Clumay Crocodile by Felecity Everett Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off-Club Arthur Accused by Mare Brown Monkey Boy by Alexander McCall Smith Nate the Great- Boring Beach Bag The Guard Dog by Dick King Smith Billy the Bird by Dick King Smith The Adventurous Snail by Dick King Smith Nate the Great- Crunchy Christmas by Majorie Sharmat The Mystery of the Silver Dolphin by Elspeth Campbell A Jigsaw Jones Mystery- The Case of the Great Sled Race by James Prellar Hattie the Homeless Puppy by Jenny Dale Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel Nate the Great- Tardy Tortoise by Majorie Sharmat The Littles Give a Party by John Peterson Tim and Charlotte by Edward Ardizzone We Scream for Ice Cream by Bernice Chardiet and Grace Maccarone Long ago and Far away The Musicians of Bremen by Brothers Grimm The Lost Giant and Bigger Biggest Best b


"What is the opening sentence of the book that ends with ""It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.""?"

Moby-Dick/Epilogue - Wikisource, the free online library Moby-Dick/Epilogue “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” Job. The drama’s done.  Why then here does any one step forth?— Because one did survive the wreck. It so chanced, that after the Parsee’s disappearance, I was he whom the Fates ordained to take the place of Ahab’s bowsman, when that bowsman assumed the vacant post; the same, who, when on the last day the three men were tossed from out of the rocking boat, was dropped astern.  So, floating on the margin of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it, when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex.  When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool.  Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve.  Till, gaining that vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and now, liberated by reason of its cunning spring, and, owing to its great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin life-buoy shot lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and floated by my side.  Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirgelike main.  The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks.  On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last.  It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.   ETYMOLOGY   (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now.  He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world.  He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.   “While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.”      —HACKLUYT   “WHALE. ...  Sw. and Dan. hval.  This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.”      —WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY   “WHALE. ...  It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger.  Wallen; A.S.  Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.”      —RICHARDSON’S DICTIONARY KETOS,        Greek. CETUS,        Latin. WHOEL,        Anglo-Saxon. HVALT,        Danish. WAL,         Dutch. HWAL,        Swedish. WHALE,        Icelandic. WHALE,        English. BALEINE,       French. BALLENA,       Spanish. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE,   Fegee. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE,   Erromangoan.   EXTRACTS   (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian) It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.  Far from it.  As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird’s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own. So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am.  Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses,


What ambiguous 1898 ghost story ends with the governess of Bly House holding the body of a dead child in her hands?

Free James The Turn of the Screw Essays and Papers Color Rating   Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw": Are The Ghosts Actually Real? - Through out the short novella, 'The Turn of the Screw,' by Henry James, the governess continually has encounters with apparitions that seem to only appear to her. As Miles' behavior in school worsens so that he is prevented from returning, and as Flora becomes ill with a fever, the governess blames these ghosts for corrupting the children, Miles and Flora, and labels them as evil and manipulative forces in their lives. But why is it that these ghosts only seem to appear to the governess even when the children are present at the time of the sightings by the governess....   [tags: Turn of the Screw, Henry James] 956 words [preview] Henry James' The Turn of the Screw - Henry James' The Turn of the Screw  Peter G. Beidler informs us that there have been “hundreds” of analyses of Henry James’ spine-tingling novella, The Turn of the Screw (189). Norman Macleod suggests that James himself seems to be “an author intent on establishing a text that cannot be interpreted in a definite way” (Qtd in Beidler 198). Yet, the vast majority of analyses of The Turn of the Screw seem to revolve around two sub-themes: the reality of the ghosts and the death of Miles both of which are used to answer the question of the governess’s mental stability: is she a hero or a deranged lunatic....   [tags: Henry James Turn Screw Essays] :: 5 Works Cited [preview] Deconstructing Henry James' The Turn of the Screw - Deconstructing Henry James's The Turn of the Screw      To those readers uninitiated to the infinite guises of critical literary theory, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw might be interpreted as a textbook case of an anxiety-ridden Governess fleeing an unpromising reality and running right into the vaporous arms of her imaginary ghosts. But to the seriously literate, the text is more than the story does or does not tell; it can be read in light of many - not just one - literary theories....   [tags: James Turn of the Screw Essays] 550 words [preview] Things are Not What they Seem to Be in Henry James’s The Turn of The Screw - Hidden subjects, the corruption of innocence, gender, and the destructiveness of heroism, can all be argued to be the main theme of The Turn of The Screw but only one can really bring the truest theme out of the story by Henry James. Many argue that there is no theme, or more than one but I believe that Forbidden subjects is truly the source that really captures what the story is all about. We can easily come to this conclusion by looking at the items in the story and piecing them together. For example, the young male child named Miles suddenly gets kicked out of school, but the reason for the expulsion is never uncovered....   [tags: The Turn of The Screw, Henry James] :: 6 Works Cited [preview] Ghosts in Henry James Turn of the Screw - The Turn of the Screw: Ghosts      Lawrence Kramer poses some interesting ideas about Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw mainly by discussing the ghosts in the story. He refers to the ghosts as revenants; “a specter, a ghost, a phantom, one who haunts, who returns, who walks again.” First, he implies that these revenants can only work when a person believes they exist. There must be something that makes a former person want to return to the living world from a state of death. However, this longing by the former person is not enough to make it a worthy revenant....   [tags: Henry James Turn Screw Essays] 633 words [preview] Narrative Frames and Ambiguity in Henry James' The Turn of The Screw - Narrative "frames" and Ambiguity in The Turn of The Screw              Since it was written, Henry James' The Turn of The Screw has been acclaimed by numerous critics to be one of the most immaculate, engrossing and terrifying ghost stories ever produced. Harriet Waters Preston described it as, "a sheer mortal horror, like the evil dream of a man under the spell of a deadly drug"1, and Gertrude Atherton said, "[it] is the most horrifying


If 221B Baker Street is to Sherlock Holmes, 9 Bywater Street, Chelsea is to whom?

9 and 10 Bywater Street, Chelsea - George Smiley's flat - London CyberPunk Tourist Guide London CyberPunk Tourist Guide to interesting locations in central London by Memetic Engineer 9 and 10 Bywater Street, Chelsea - George Smiley's flat By on December 13, 2009 10:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) In the classic fictional espionage novel and TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy by John le Carré, the central character George Smiley , has a London flat at Number 9 Bywater Street, just off the King's Road, Chelsea, which features in several important parts of the story. The neighbouring Number 10, was actually used in the filming of the BBC TV series (source: IMDb.com ). Latitude:   N51:29:25 (51.490249)


The global think tank that attracted considerable attention with its 1972 publication of The Limits of Growth is called 'The Club of' what European city?

Club of Rome - 必应 The most important documents we publish are “Reports to the Club of Rome”. These are peer-reviewed studies commissioned by the Executive Committee, or suggested ... www.clubofrome.org/activities/reports The Club of Rome is lead by an Executive Committee. The members of the Executive Committee are appointed for three years and are eligible for re- election. ABOUT US. www.clubofrome.org/membership Hotel Club House Roma is in a quiet area, 325 ft from Rome's Cornelia Metro Station and 3 stops from the Vatican City. www.booking.com/hotel/it/club-house-roma.html Club. Partners Stadio della ... AS Roma Newsletter . Sign up today to receive regular updates, information and offers direct to your inbox. I agree to the Terms of ... www.asroma.com/en The Club of Rome is saddened by the passing away of our former member Jay W. Forrester, a pioneer in computer modeling and creator of the World Dynamics Model, ... www.facebook.com/clubofrome Only members of Club Rome and Applicants awaiting verification for membership to Club Rome website, will be granted access to the club. www.clubrome.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&...