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...Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...irst world war, in 1917, the US War Industries Board called on women to stop buying metal-rich corsets. Some 28,000 tons of metals were thus made av... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...cocaineaddiction.com/history-of-cocaine.htm Columbus, Christopher Columbus was an Italian and lived most of his early life in Portugal, not in Spa... ... Sardinia) as late as 50 years ago, during and after the second world war. The Italian folk dance, "Tarantella" is related to tarantism. It was... ...ntella" is related to tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The ... ...r, who committed his atrocities in September-October 1888, was not the tall, gaunt, gothic, dark figure we all "know" from countless movies. Act... ...ions were trounced by Isaac Shoenberg and his team, set up in 1931 by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). RCA refined its own system, as did the... ...ovico Sforza, was used for target practice by invading French soldiers in 1499. The metal which was supposed to go into this work of art was molded ...

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...e da un universe all’altro ISBN 978-88-95806-04-4 Translated from Italian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig 2009. Chapter XV translated by Alice Pin... ...eir titles are also in English. Some are available as of this time only in Italian: these titles have been translated into English and placed in bra... ... 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 anonymity of the masses. 36 Otherwise, let’s take the example of a musical instrument: a violin, a standup bass or an entire orchestra. Some... ... a melody or a symphony. If we want to, we can imagine our lives like a musical instrument that has four strings: the body, the psyche, the I Per... ...ually and together, not like in the times of the Egyptian pyramids or the Gothic cathedrals, because now, if everyone is an artist, there are no m... ...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 ... ...times we need a huge fire, like a furnace, to melt the I just like we melt metals, and to give it a form that it didn’t have before. The SELF spea...

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... infinitely small-split particles, and then began coming together into larger groups of infinitely small energy particles... to eventually merge tog... ...ines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a musical scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the h... ...roperties of both waves and particles. This is why the main vibration of any musical note exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why... ...the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Because t... ...eparate one wavelength from another. All stringed instruments with frets use metal bars as buffers to separate one particular wavelength from the re... ...ot love the children of their masters more than their own children? Today: Italians are known as a culturally non-violent Nation… They are now on... ...w one of the most peaceful and fun- loving cultures in Europe. Try to find an Italian raised in Italy who is brave physically… try to find a fighter,... ...lternative The Evil of the Undead Bram Stoker… who stoked the fires of gothic horror… cramming it into English literature… as a new elite cra... ...them. You have no idea of what these undead scum are capable of. All the gothic horror stories seen in movies, all gothic romances and ghost st...

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...an't afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing, in large groups and hope that some will send you money. Instead the future belongs ... ...ference between sound and text. In music, what matter are the song or the musical piece. The medium (or carrier, or packing) is marginal and interch... ...r audiences. Trade unions, certain educational institutions and religious groups commenced "public radio" broadcasts. The Commercial Phase When t... ...fought between publishers-librarians over formats (book sizes) and fonts (Gothic versus Roman) were ultimately decided by consumer preferences. Mult... ...udden were not. Friends told me that in Italy, for example, all the great Italian operas that had entered the public domain are no longer there. . . ... ...nguages as hard as I possibly can. So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portu... ...cts similar to his history. It will alert him to movies, TV shows and new musical releases - all within his cultural sphere. If convinced to purchas... ... the Sabines(TM). He became an artist, clad in leather, he started a heavy-metal band called The Garage(TM). It was then that he discovered TV, so he...

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...Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once ...

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...tried—perhaps not very success- fully—to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowl- edge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what... ...e with ignorance, not knowing that I have taken counsel of one of our best musical critics, and had the benefit of your conscientious help. I have, pe... ...lay of marbles, cut into unfading flowers. The furniture, like that of all Italian palaces, was rich with handsome silks, judiciously employed, and va... ...filmy scarf swept aside by the wind and immediately renewed; those bronzed metal figures 6 Massimilla Doni speechlessly inhabiting the silent grove; ... ...ith which this lovely daughter of T uscany wore her French attire; she had Italianized it. A Frenchwoman treats her shirt with the greatest seriousnes... ...msical resemblance to a dog. His complexion, tainted, no doubt, by various metallic in- fusions as prescribed by some Hippocrates, verged on black. A ... ... for the festal allegro? Did you not get a glimpse, as it were, of dancing groups, the dizzy round of a whole nation escaped from danger? And when the... ...erg, the Virgins of the Duomo, at Milan, the whole population of a hundred Gothic Cathe- drals, all the race of beings who burst their mould to visit ...

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...r other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered d...

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...f their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than pape... ...wing and reading, and the blind were, for the most part, set to perform on musical instruments, and got up a con- cert for the visitors. It was then w... ...ible, that even as blind beggars they could hardly get a livelihood in the musical way. 15 Thackeray HENCE WE WERE DRIVEN to the huge palace of Neces... ...ion and liveliness as I have never witnessed before. And the effect of the groups of multitudinous actors in this busy cheerful drama is heightened, a... ...in. But to manufacture European iron into pikes and helmets was a waste of metal:in the shape of piston-rods and furnace-pokers it is irresistible; an... ...e ragged soldiers leave their pipes to sa- lute him as he passes under the Gothic archway. The astonishing brightness and clearness of the sky under w... ...e noble old towers of the Church of the Sepulchre, with pointed arches and Gothic traceries, rude, but rich and picturesque in design. Here crowds are... ... a much more Eastern look than the European quarter, with its Anglo-Gallic-Italian inhab- itants, and Babel-like civilisation. Here and there a large ... ...the town, who conveyed it in a language com- posed of French, Spanish, and Italian, and with a volubility quite worthy of a barber of “Gil Blas. ” The...

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...tanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con-... ... a suggestion that I should go in 1915. I travel badly, I speak French and Italian with incred- ible atrocity, and am an extreme Pacifist. I hate sold... ... onset of wear, and Italy is the most fortunate land in the world for road metal; her mountains are solid road metal, and in this Venetian plain you n... ...war tourist skirts precipices and takes hairpin bends upon tracks of loose metal not an inch too broad for the opera- tion, or it floats for a moment ... ..., which is, I sup- pose, the last southward fortress of the Franco-English Gothic. “It was here,” said my host, “that we burnt the German stuff.” “Wha... ...e not been very deeply moved. I suppose that one is a little accustomed to Gothic ruins, and that there is always something monumental about old build... ...” at all. One finds that the apparent subaltern is really a musician, or a musical critic, or an Egyptologist, or a solicitor, or a cloth manufacturer... ...r their alli- ances, we may count it that the matter rests now between two groups of Allies and one neutral power. So that while on the one hand the d... .... 2 2 2 2 2 In the complex structure of the modern community there are two groups or strata or pockets in which the impulse of social obligation, the ...

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..., to abstain from the discus sion of any such questions with any order of Italians, so I would rather not enter on the inquiry now. During my twelve ... ...ther figures, through a whole fever. Passing through the court yard, among groups of idle sol diers, we turned off by a gate, which this She Goblin u... ... from the heat of the fire, and where the brave Courier plays all sorts of musical instruments of his own manufacture, all the evening long. A mighty ... ...onstantly lying down, and surfeiting them selves with vine leaves—perfect Italian cows enjoying the Dolce Far’ Niente all day long. They are presided... ...I am theirs again to morrow! Ariosto’s house, T asso’s prison, a rare old Gothic cathedral, and more churches of course, are the sights of Ferrara. B... ...; dim with the smoke of incense; costly in treasure of precious stones and metals, glit tering through iron bars; holy with the bodies of deceased sa... ...es of wrought steel and iron, to make the gallant horse a monster cased in metal scales; and one spring weapon (easy to be carried in the breast) desi... ... Past plots of garden, theatres, shrines, prodigious piles of architecture—Gothic— Saracenic—fanciful with all the fancies of all times and coun trie... ...y by the Jura mountains, sprinkled with snow, and lighted by the moon, and musical with falling water, was delightful; or how, below the windows of th...

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... might, by this time, have been centuries old, though ever new. In the dry Italian air, how- ever, Nature had only so far adopted this old pile of sto... ...and yellow wash, which is a sort of renovation very much in vogue with the Italians. Kenyon noticed over a doorway, in the portion of the edifice imme... ...ith his eyes one of the figures, which was repeated many times over in the groups upon the walls and ceiling. It formed the principal link of an alleg... ... those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes; they are especially rich in attitudes of li... ...h gold as we see on the leaf of a bright flower than the burnished glow of metal from the mine. Or, if metallic, it looked airy and unsubstantial, lik... ... hill with its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the ... ...kneeling before an altar. Whenever they found a cathedral, therefore, or a Gothic church, the two travellers were of one mind to enter it. In some of ... ...ichly dressed, scattering forth their laughter, shrill, yet sweet, and the musical babble of their voices, to thicken into an airy tumult over the hea...

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... just to complain of their freakish, unusual characters. Only en masse the metal is all Britannia. In an ugly little mining town we find the odd ones ... ...s something like the keyboard of a piano: more still, like a succession of musical notes. For the rectangular planes of light were of different intens... ... Aaron’s Rod The whole party moved out on to the crimson-carpeted gangway. Groups of people stood about chatting, men and women were passing along, to... ...s, and the same with this Englishman as with a Frenchman or a German or an Italian. Lilly had sat in a cowshed listening to a youth in the north count... ... get out of it? League of Nations?” “Damn all leagues. Damn all masses and groups, anyhow. All I want is to get MYSELF out of their horrible heap: to ... ...HE OPERA SEASON ENDED, Aaron was invited by Cyril Scott to join a group of musical people in a village by the sea. He accepted, and spent a pleasant m... ...suit of clothes and a big black hat, and play outside the best cafe in any Italian town, and you’ll collect enough to get on with.” It was a sporting ... ...ons. Aaron came forward and examined the orders, one after the other. Just metal playthings of curious shiny silver and gilt and enamel. Heavy the Bri... ...ove the cathedral and the tower. I love its pinkness and its paleness. The Gothic souls find fault with it, and say it is gimcrack and tawdry and chea...

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...in their spiritual guide. But as to the preference for oratory—for loud or musical voice—for peculiar views in religion—these things are special: they... ...nds meet or flow into each other. III. Ear-rings of gold, silver, inferior metals, or even horn, were worn by the Hebrew women in all ages; and in the... ...ing chains, which depended so as to strike against clappers fixed into the metallic belts. The pleasant tinkle of the golden belts in collision, the c... ...were either strung upon a thread, or attached by little hooks—singly or in groups, according to their size. This taste was very early established amon... ... realities of angels and archangels are continually combined into the same groups with the fabulous impersonations of the Greek my- thology. Eve is in... ...ge, under the blessing of Heaven, is pretty nearly a tabula rasa.’ In this Gothic expres- sion of self-congratulation upon the extent of his own igno-... ...osts which gathered in the early years of the Revolution on the German and Italian frontiers of France. Yet were these hosts applied, under the perfec... ...pect of ransom; a British nobleman’s son from death or the consequences of Italian barbarity; or a prince, the brother of Napoleon, from having the se... ...ar- mony are essential conditions to their effect. Ruins are be- coming to Gothic buildings—decay is there seen in a grace- ful form; but to an Attic ...

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...ique statues, a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,... ... eyes were somewhat startled. “Donatello, my dear friend,” said Kenyon, in Italian, “pray gratify us all by taking the exact attitude of this statue.”... ...ite repugnance to graves and skulls, and to all that ghastliness which the Gothic mind loves to associate with the idea of death. He shuddered, and lo... ...ot, as you will own, more than half a dozen positively original statues or groups in the world, and these few are of immemorial antiquity. A person fa... ...hing akin to the ideal. So, when the guests collected themselves in little groups, here and there, in the wide saloon, a cheerful and airy gossip be- ... ... once en- joyed, but still longing to enjoy them over again.” “You bring a Gothic horror into this peaceful moonlight scene,” said Hilda. “Nay, I have... ...h gold as we see on the leaf of a bright flower than the burnished glow of metal from the mine. Or, if metallic, it looked airy and unsubstantial, lik... ...ichly dressed, scattering forth their laughter, shrill, yet sweet, and the musical babble of their voices, to thicken into an airy tumult over the hea...

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...y stain Of Moor or Hebrew blood, he traced his source Through the most Gothic gentlemen of Spain; A better cavalier ne’er mounted horse, O... ...unt O’Reilly, Who took Algiers, declares I used him vilely? ‘Did not the Italian Musico Cazzani Sing at my heart six months at least in vain? ... ... that I know by this: That is, some words of Spanish, Turk, and Greek, Italian not at all, having no teachers; Much English I cannot pretend t... ...its hold, The purest ore enclosed the whitest skin That e’er by precious metal was held in. Around, as princess of her father’s land, A like... ... Like a backgammon board the place was dotted With whites and blacks, in groups on show for sale, Though rather more irregularly spotted: So... ...was not; a sort of style that ‘s grown Extremely common in this age, whose metal The devil may decompose, but never settle: I think it may be of... ...en, and the like, Until he reach’d the castellated Rhine:— Ye glorious Gothic scenes! how much ye strike All phantasies, not even excepting ... ... point of heaven, There moans a strange unearthly sound, which then Is musical—a dying accent driven Through the huge arch, which soars and si... ...sions: The ‘Lasciami’s,’ and quavering ‘Addio’s!’ Amongst our own most musical of nations; With ‘Tu mi chamas’s’ from Portingale, To soothe ...

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...sionate and vindictive ambition, placed himself and his reti- nue upon the Italian soil; and, as if by inspiration from Heaven, in one moment involved... ...nd occupied 62 The Cæsars the rest of the day with experiments on certain musical in- struments of recent invention, in which the keys were moved by ... ...n artist to be thus violently snatched away, and on the calamitous fate of musical sci- ence, which then stood on the brink of so dire an eclipse. In ... ...evolt the feelings of sober thinkers. Except, perhaps, in some chapters of Italian history, as, for example, among the most profligate of the Papal ho... ...that, in a single generation, Rome became almost trans- muted into a baser metal; the progeny of those whom the last generation had purchased from the... ...le, Marcus Aurelius raised the first ominous prece- dent in favor of those Gothic, Vandal, and Frankish hives, who were as yet hidden behind a cloud o... ...tonines, making seventeen emperors, compose the first of four nearly equal groups, who occupied the throne in succession until the extinction of the W... ...or instance, in Southey’s Don Roderick there is a cast of sentiment in the Gothic king’s remorse and contri- tion of heart, which has struck many read...

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...eing torn to pieces. Providentially, Nostromo— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was ... ...own, a man who, when I discovered his value, sir, was just the bos’n of an Italian ship, a big Genoese ship, one of the few European ships that ever c... ...into the wall above marble consoles, square spaces of carpet under the two groups of arm- chairs, each presided over by a deep sofa; smaller rugs scat... ... ver mine can be put to, apart from the sordid pro- cess of extracting the metal from under the ground. The father of Charles Gould, for a long time o... ...uld; and by her imaginative estimate of its power she endowed that lump of metal with a justificative conception, as though it were not a mere fact, b... ...hecking the mare almost to a standstill now and then for children, for the groups of people from the distant Campo, who stared after him with admirati... ...knives in their hands and put an end once for all to the Blancos, to these Gothic remnants, to these sinister mummies, these impo- tent paraliticos, w... ...ased the earthenware filter in the corner of the kitchen kept on its swift musical drip, drip into the great porous jar below. Towards sunset he got u...

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...f new fortunes. Glamorganshire was at least a better climate than Bute; no groups of idle or of busy reapers could here stand waiting on the guidance ... ...nse, his momentum depended on velocity of stroke, rather than on weight of metal; “beautifulest sheet-lightning,” as I often said, “not to be condense... ...nery all along the road to Looe; and the House itself, a very unpretending Gothic cottage, stands *Mrs. Anthony Sterling, very lately Miss Charlotte B... ...ves; crossed by roads and human traffic, here inaudible or heard only as a musical hum: and behind all swam, under olive-tinted haze, the illimitable ... ...ught, and drown the world and you!—I have heard Coleridge talk, with eager musical en- ergy, two stricken hours, his face radiant and moist, and commu... ...e given up, and formed (if the room were large enough) secondary hum- ming groups of their own. He began anywhere: you put some question to him, made ... ... goal of it, the journey to be done in company with Calvert, whom also the Italian climate might be made to serve instead of Madeira. One of the livel... ...ather for doing so, as indeed we have had ever since we left Lausanne. The Italian de- scent is greatly more remarkable than the other side. “We slept... ...d except in some of the higher notes harmonious, there was a clear-ringing metallic tone,—which I often thought was wonderfully physiogno- mic. A cert...

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...xpedition and secrecy purchase certain valuable specimens of the Dutch and Italian schools as to which he had received private proposals, and then pre... ... in its homely veracity, its artless artfulness, of the works of the early Italian Renaissance. On the pedestal was cut the name—Barnaby Striker, Esq.... ... sleeping eternally, with his hand on his sword, like an old crusader in a Gothic cathedral. Rowland made no haste to pronounce; too much de- pended o... ...have given a silver tip to leaden days. I don’t say he is of a more useful metal than other people, but he is of a different one. Of course, however, ... ...r falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story!” And with a great, musical roll of his voice he went swing- ing off into the darkness again, a... ...he grassy desolation of the Campagna. As the season went on and the social groups began to constitute themselves, he found that he knew a great many p... ...s therefore surprised at an incident which be- fell one evening at a large musical party. Roderick, as usual, was in the field, and, on the ladies tak...

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...clares it one Lion, equal to “twaindy” bronze Crosses. Unless the ratio of metals is very different here, this latter must be a token coin, and theref... ... and of the methods of intercourse and collective decision that hold human groups together, and finally of government and the State. The eluci- dation... ...red by a substance like soft oilcloth; one warms the mattress (which is of metal with resistance coils threaded to and fro in it); and the others warm... ... be a great multitude of gracious little houses clustering in college-like groups, no doubt about their com- mon kitchens and halls, down and about th... ... chance light on the labour prob- lem—by perforating records for automatic musical ma- chines—no doubt of the Pianotist and Pianola kind—and he spent ... ...ering traditions of Greek temple 133 H G Wells building, and of Roman and Italian palaces; it is simple, unaffected, gracious. The material is some a... ...he dress is varied and graceful; that of the women reminds one most of the Italian fifteenth century; they have an abundance of soft and beautifully-c... ...etal can do, but what a University ought to be, somebody who had found the Gothic spirit enchanted, petrified, in a cathedral, and had set it free.” “... ..., and a compact organisation acting with complete external unity. Like the Gothic cathe- dral, the national idea is never found complete with all its ...

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... the ante-chamber was sup- plied by a huge chandelier of the same precious metal. The floor was covered with a Spanish foot-cloth, or carpet, on which... ...y of plate and porcelain. In the midst of the table stood a salt-cellar of Italian workmanship—a beau- tiful and splendid piece of plate about two fee... ...edle-work, supplied the place of chairs in this apartment, which contained musical instruments, embroidery frames, and other articles for ladies’ past... ..., that as soon as I should commence the grand work of the transmutation of metals, the explosion should transmute the vault and all in it into a heap ... ..., therefore, very unlike the monotonous stone pepperboxes which, in modern Gothic architecture, are em- 141 Sir Walter Scott ployed for the same purp... ...ave it here,” thundered the in- ebriated ruffian— “here, al fresco, as the Italian hath it. No, no, I will not drink with that poisoning devil within ... ...opened on a small projecting balcony of stone, battlemented as is usual in Gothic castles. The Earl undid the lattice, and stepped out into the 362 K... ...n one party entered and traversed the Pleas- ance. But they were in joyous groups of four or five persons together, laughing and jesting in their own ... ...over, but the men, still habited in their masking suits, stood together in groups, like the in- habitants of a city who have been just startled by som...

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...l Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. The towel- rack was a rod of clear glass set in nick... ... to-day it seemed flat—the tiled floor, like a bathroom, the ocher-colored metal ceiling, the faded maps on the hard plaster walls, the chairs of varn... ...to be quiet and firm and deft. The entrance lobby of the Athletic Club was Gothic, the washroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the re... ...r consisted of one half-bottle of Bourbon whisky, a quarter of a bottle of Italian vermouth, and approximately one hundred drops of orange bitters. He... ...ient poor people waiting for the midnight train stared in unenvious wonder—Italian women with shawls, old weary men with broken shoes, roving road-wis... ...y.” The real convention consisted of men muttering in hotel bedrooms or in groups amid the badge-spotted crowd in the hotel-lobby, but there was a sho... ...eligious and civil.” It was built of cheery iron-spot brick in an improved Gothic style, and the main auditorium had indirect lighting from elec- tric... ...were bringing folding chairs up from the basement. There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational di- rector of the... ...ck around with me, old man, and I’ll show you a good time!” They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other 212 Babbitt at the matrimonial jokes ...