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...Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...Primary (or compression) and secondary (or shearing) body waves (that travel in the rocks under the surface of the Earth at speeds of up to 7 kilome... ...y Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the pa... ...twice (1922 and 1923), who was 5- foot-7 and weighed 140 pounds (c. 65 kg.). Norman Rockwell, the painter, was on the panel of judges in 1923. Ca... ...th century, both Hernando Cortes (in Mexico) and Christopher Columbus (in the West Indies) described these unusual uses of the snack. Father Bernar... ...atau (Krakatoa) on August 26-27, 1883, a wave 35 meters high swept across the East Indies killing in excess of 36,000 people. Triggered by a submar...

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... contains I suggest that besides reading it individually you discuss it in groups, together with other people who are enthusiastic about the ideas it... ...e myth and those who embody it, just as what happens, for example, between rock stars and their fans. 15 An artist is someone who makes the impos... ... statue tells the story of David, a young shepherd, who used a single river rock to knock out Goliath the giant and with him the arrogance of the Phi... ...he comments you made yesterday evening and this morning, both in the small groups and in the big one. Allow me, after having expressed my admiration ... ...lat, he had thought up a very arduous and ambitious project: to get to the Indies by crossing the ocean instead of by land. Columbus presented hi... ...And when they finally came to land, Christopher Columbus had not found the Indies, but a new continent. I believe that since that day not only a ne... ...lopment of my reflections on the anthropic principle created by a group of American scientists. Anyone who would like to know more about the anthro... ...enjoy the work of art. Let’s look at an even clearer example. Do you like rock music? I don’t like it, but at this time millions of people like it.... ...uclear reaction around a unified center of gravity, just like we do in our groups. 139 The more courage we have, the greater the freedom we will ...

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... with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the merm...

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...avigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonde... ...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...ip of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing o... ... -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- A cit... ... lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the world -- ' Discovery of the West Indies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the younger ... ...nderstanding with the natives -- Hostile natives frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...given in the Sagas, but by the discovery of what is called the Dighton Writing Rock, which was found in the 16th century on the very spot where the No...

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...s of the large grazing animals. Hominids found that by taking a heavy enough rock and bringing it down with sufficient force onto a thigh bone, the... ...cially difficult task. Simply smash the bone hard enough with a heavy enough rock and it would split. This was the survival technique that saved t... ... upright and had their hands free, learned to create hand-tools by splitting a rock so it has a linear cutting edge which can be used to butcher a ki... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...ted to the fact that breadfruit was bound to feed the black slaves of the West Indies and free them from bondage like Christian and his crew were fre... ... Nobody bought the breadfruit. Nobody ate it except a few slaves in the West Indies. Instead; the English World was transfixed by the unbelievable... ...servants to New York, and finally: the shipping of African slaves to the West Indies and America. British ship-culture; was a culture of sadistic c...

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... nimble, ad- hoc networks of entrepreneurship superimposed on ever- shifting product groups and profit and loss centers. Competition used to be ext... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...if they did not participate in the market. If differential pricing is not allowed, groups with small willingness to pay may not be served at all. ... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...n that today control the bulk of intellectual property. Many of them go freelance. Indie music labels, independent cinema, print on demand publishi... ...am Vaknin "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make it its home for life.... ...apitalism and capitalists (big business). Again, the list is dizzying: antibiotics, rocket technology, the internet itself (first developed by the P... ...rning, originally created for the military-industrial complex (for the purposes of rocket navigation) was founded on the observation of the fights ...

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...gs I have a Shorthand System, easily as good as the best now taught in any American Business College, that 1 can teach In twelve (12) evenings. Tui- t... ...aw in Rochester, N. Y. ^ Cbe Richmond Tdc Ulcllington north /Idams. IDass. AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLAN E. M. Moore, Mgr. W. S, Underwood Go. it PIANOS, i... ...Mr Bradman ^ THE HAHflPTON AilJaoBnt to Post Offioo European Plan, $1andUp American Plan, $2m50 to$4 Om Am Koelef, Propm Northampton, Mass. B,K Browni... ... THE WILSON North Adams, Mass. Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H.J. Rockwell & .Son The Auto Strop SafetyRaxor Tha One Gomplete Razor Safety Ra... ...g Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H. J. Rockwell & Son The Auto Strop SafetyRazor The One Comptete Razor Safety Raz... ...ady .Mioy. Mr. Powers impersoniilccl a woniaii, who, th(! hearer is led to Indieve, was of ideal beauty. Her charac, ter is depicted as being very re-... ... Elegant Goes & Stodder 14 School Street, I)os*.on College Shoes I'red E ".rocke. Representative Bemis' every two weeks * Cbe Richmond Tfte iUcllingte... ...foreign countries represented were as fol- lows: Canada 1. England 1, West Indies 1, South America 1, Tur- key 2, and Sandwich Islanda 5. Fifty years ... ..." Mr. Chapman is a famous ornith- ologist and on a recent trip to the West Indies made a study of the flamingoes. The illuatrationa to be used in the ...

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...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ...an't afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing, in large groups and hope that some will send you money. Instead the future belongs ... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...r audiences. Trade unions, certain educational institutions and religious groups commenced "public radio" broadcasts. The Commercial Phase When t... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...select musicians eke out a living from their noisy vocation (most of them rock stars who own their labels - George Michael had to fight Sony to do ju... ... pioneered the current generation of electronic reading devices with its "Rocket eBook" in 1998) acquired eBookNet and hired me. NuvoMedia supported... ...at has an established base of customers and actual dedicated devices, the Rocket eBook and REB1100 and REB1200s. Gemstar's format actually has a lot ... ...day control the bulk of intellectual property. Many of them go freelance. Indie music labels, independent cinema, print on demand publishing - are o...

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... gnarled old thorns in the holiday suit whence they take their name, giant?s nosegays of horse-chestnuts, mighty elms and stalwart oaks, singly or in groups, the aristocracy of the place; while in the background rose wooded coverts, where every tint of early green blended in rich masses of varied foliage....

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... the family, and he and my Aunt Nesbit having been old friends in the West Indies, met at Bath, and cooked up the match. He wanted a fortune for his n... ...have congratulated you on the friend’s capture. A gold- finch of the South American breed is a rare bird.’ Theodora drew up her head, and impetuously ... ..., adorned with sparkling jets d’eau of fantastic forms, gorgeous masses of American plants, the flaming or the snowy azalea, and the noble rhododendro... ...rving outline of the bay ending in the bold Culver Cliffs, and the wall of rocks above, clothed in part with garland-like shrubs and festoons of creep... ...u tell me Theodora came straight from the Palaeologos who died in the West Indies? I always considered that to account for cer- tain idiosyncrasies.’ ... ...ce all the evening, so I may as well see what books she has got. “The West Indies”; “The 245 Yonge Crusaders”—of course! “Geoffroi de Villechardouin”... ...fice of poetry to gild nature by breathing a soul into her. It is what the Americans are trying to do for their new world, still turning to England as... ...7 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 7 ‘Mid sombre shades of evening dim Upon the rock so lone, so drear, Scorning weak frame and sinking limb, My heart grow... ...teenth century, thought Theodora, as she heard them discussing subsoil and rocks, and thought of the poet turned high farmer, and forgetting even love...

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...y, pray?” “Because this crater is evidently filled with lava and burn- ing rocks, and therefore—” “But suppose it is an extinct volcano?” “Extinct?” “... ...s that most resist the action of heat, gold, and platinum, and the hardest rocks, can never be either solid or liquid under such a temperature. I have... ...low, clutching at every step. The keen air made me giddy; I felt the spire rocking with every gust of wind; my knees began to fail; soon I was crawlin... ...the arrival of a vessel from which every one expected something, formed in groups upon the quay. My uncle left in haste his floating prison, or rather... ..., cow-dung, and fishbones. After this little pinch of warmth the different groups retired to their respective rooms. Our hostess hospitably offered us... ...getation was not confined to these 135 Jules Verne fungi. Farther on rose groups of tall trees of colourless foli- age and easy to recognise. They we... ... the human family is of the Japhetic race, which has since spread from the Indies to the Atlantic. Don’t smile, gentlemen.” Nobody was smiling; but th... ...waters which were carrying us away exceeded that of the swiftest rapids in American rivers. Its surface seemed com- posed of a sheaf of arrows hurled ...

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... to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well ... ...ld do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that o... ...aid. They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led t... ...d. At a respectful distance from this unusual show, were gath- ered divers groups of curious idlers; some admiring the blood and bone of the high-mett... ...ou might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling ov... ...out, who approached or re- ceded from the shore, to avoid the fragments of rocks, or deeper parts of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowl... ...r situation more minutely. The river was confined between high and cragged rocks, one of which impended above the spot where the canoe rested. As thes... ...blood in different lands, before duty called me to the islands of the West Indies. There it was my lot to form a connection with one who in time becam... ...d his eyes around the plain, and beheld with uneasiness the numerous dusky groups of savages, who looked out from the margin of the surrounding woods,...

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...he question took quite another shape. The monster became a small island, a rock, a reef, but a reef of indefinite and shifting proportions. On the 5th... ...night in 27º 30' lat. and 72º 15' long., struck on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea. Under the combined effor... ... continued its route without apparent damage. Had it struck on a submerged rock, or on an enormous wreck? They could not tell; but, on examination of ... ...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...This group covers an area of 370 square leagues, and it is formed of sixty groups of islands, among which the Gambier group is remarkable, over which ... ...of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand 94 20,000 Leag... ...ich they had the right of re- ceiving all merchandise coming from the West Indies. Now, to disembark these ingots at the port of Vigo was depriving th...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ... right quarter, or perhaps they are strongly relieved against a curtain of rock, at a distance of some miles, and always ex- hibiting gigantic proport... ... in Portugal, at Lisbon, and at Cintra; next in Madeira; then in the West Indies; sometimes in Jamaica, sometimes in St. Kitt’s; court- ing the suppo... ... when the one side yearned for breakfast, and the other for a respite: the groups, therefore, on or about the bridge, if any at all, were loose in the... ...through fleshly torments. Mine, in the present case, rose suddenly, like a rocket, into their meridian altitude, by means of a hint furnished to my br... ...n Europe; the governor of the Lee- ward Islands, on departing for the West Indies; various depu- tations with petitions, addresses, &c., from islands ... ... hang heavy on our hands, though we were imprisoned, as it were, on a dull rock; for Holyhead itself is a little island of rock, an insu- lated depend...

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...icult an attempt as to manufacture delicate playthings out of the granite, rocks on which New England is founded. 6 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sCha... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...ghened by northern tempests and black ened by the burning sun of the West Indies. He wears an immense periwig, flowing down over his shoulders. His c... ...m England in the Rose Algier, and cruised for nearly two years in the West Indies, endeavoring to find the wreck of the Spanish ship. But the sea is s... ...p tain Phips judged it best to return to England. Before leaving the West Indies, he met with a Spaniard, an old man, who remembered the wreck of the... ...ip, and gave him directions how to find the very spot. It was on a reef of rocks, a few leagues from Porto de la Plata. On his arrival in England, the... ...boat. The boat was intended for the purpose of going closer to the reef of rocks than a large vessel could safely venture. When it was finished, the c... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen...

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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...e tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks that aid greatly in giving to the country that ro- mantic and picture... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ... themselves. CHAPTER III “All that thou see’st is Natures handiwork; Those rocks that upward throw their mossy brawl Like castled pinnacles of elder t... ... Like castled pinnacles of elder times; These venerable stems, that slowly rock Their towering branches in the wintry gale; That field of frost, which... ...y, that you keep in this country; but then you’re so close aboard the West Indies, you make but a small run of it. By the Lord Harry, woman, if Garnse... ...ement of the sugar-bush to me. Here is Mr. Le Quoi—he has been in the West Indies, and has seen sugar made. Let him give an account of how it is made ... ...hy of the thing. Well, monsieur, how is it that you make sugar in the West Indies; anything in Judge T emples fashion?” The gentleman to whom this que...

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...” Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, ... ... Falconer’s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets flew self driven, To hang their momentary fires Amid the vault of hea... ...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust health... ...reat original — the Tyre of this Carthage; — the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aborig... ... word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death for... ...latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been ... ... enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families. Utter confusion exists among the historians of this an...

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... —Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, ... ...Falconer’ s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets blew self driven, To hang their momentary fire Around the vault of ... ...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedes- trian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust health... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ... word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insur- ance Companies pay death-f... ...latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been ... ... enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.... Utter confusion exists among the historians of this...

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...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ... All at once we got into a strong current, which swept us rapidly toward a rocky promontory forming one side of the harbour. The wind had died away; s... ...efore this could be done, the eddies were whirling upon all sides, and the rock so near that it seemed as if one might leap upon it from the masthead.... ...t, the many stories I had heard of ships striking at midnight upon unknown rocks, with all sail set, and a slum- bering crew, often recurred to me, es... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... classic. Its natu- ral features alone distinguish it from the surrounding groups. Two round and lofty promontories, whose mountains rise nine thousan... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...nd perpetually vio- lated laws against licentiousness of all kinds in both groups of islands. It is hardly to be expected that the missionaries would ... ...ate, and of so excellent a quality that Bligh took slips of it to the West Indies. All the plantations went on famously for a while; the natives swarm...

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...unt of a private struggle between himself and a certain path of planks and rock edges called the Bisse of Leysin. This happened in his adolescence. He... ...e it hangs like an eyebrow over nearly or quite vertical walls of pine-set rock. Beside it, on the outer side of it, runs a path, which becomes an off... ...lls corner, which gives the favourite picture postcard from Mon- tana, the rocks project so sharply above the water that the passenger on the gangway ... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...doed another Russian ironclad and a British cruiser was ashore in the East Indies. A man had been found murdered in an empty house in Hoxton and the K... ...more sunken under his brows. He had suffered from yellow fever in the West Indies, and these it seemed were the marks left by that illness. And he was... ...fled gallop- ing of troops through the broad dusty street in the night, of groups of men standing and watching down straight broad roads, roads that e...

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...se, by the occasional interruption of rapids. “There are hidden wonders of rock and precipice and cave, in that dark forest,” said Edward, pointing to... ... but was now overrun by bushes and dwarf pines, among which many huge gray rocks, ineradicable by human art, endeavored to conceal themselves. About h... ...old leafless oak, that formed with its roots an obstruction very common in American streams; but, throwing his line with involuntary skill as he passe... ... face had seen as hot a sun as mine. He has felt the burning breeze of the Indies, East and West, I warrant him. Ah, I see we shall send away the even... ...tile fields on each side of the way, were neat little cottages, from which groups of white-headed children rushed forth to gaze upon the travellers. T... ...of some kind or other had reached the village. The people were gathered in groups, conversing eagerly; and the pale cheeks, uplifted eyebrows, and out... ...any of them seemed to soar to heaven) scarcely surmounted it. This line of rock has a considerable extent, at unequal heights, and with many interrupt...

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... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...he wooden green-houses in ragged 20 The Age of Innocence gardens, and the rocks from which goats surveyed the scene, would vanish before the advance ... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ... mind of man could travel, had been divided into the two great fundamental groups of the Mingotts and Mansons and all their clan, who cared about eati... ...n Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ou... ...bout Beaufort. In the spring he had gone off on a long cruise to the W est Indies in his new steam-yacht, and it was reported that, at various points ... ...s down Narragansett Avenue, crossed Spring Street and drove out toward the rocky moorland beyond. In this unfashionable re- gion Catherine the Great, ... ...th weeping willows. Through their veil Archer caught the glint of the Lime Rock, with its white-washed turret and the tiny house in which the heroic l...