soft fiddle pervaded. Juneau played it‚ fiddling his own song. Although he was the son of a lumberjack‚ he loved to play the fiddle. Juneau’s aunt gave it to him. Rather‚ she wrote in her will that he would inherit her fiddle as a gift. It was only posthumous to her life that this part of her will was fulfilled. Written to atone for ghastly works‚ the song he played ranked as a favorite. He enjoyed playing that song‚ as he did it seemingly for the birds‚ because of the intricate diapason after the
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On the cartoon Batman: The Brave and the Bold (and in DC Comics)‚ Bwana Beast is one of the Dark Knight’s crime-fighting colleagues. The raymond mill and cement mill never appeared in this cartoon. He’s a D-list superhero whose powers enable him to combine two animals into one: a mosquito gets crossed with a buffalo into a flying‚ stinging‚ ramming monster—that kind of thing. He wears a pointy mask and an animal-skin loincloth. My son‚ five years old‚ watches this iteration of Batman religiously—we
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Even today‚ Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is read by every class from kings to common people. The book is a universal classic‚ meaning it can be related to at any time‚ by anyone. The philosophies included in his book have spanned the centuries‚ and Meditations remains to be one of the most influential books ever written. Marcus Aurelius was born on April 20‚ 121 AD into a family of royalty. His uncle and adoptive father‚ Antoninus Pius‚ was the emperor of Rome. Aurelius‚ too‚ was trained
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Considered by many to be the greatest American female poet of all time‚ Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th‚ 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. She was the second of three children and spent much of her life with her family (“Emily Elizabeth”). Although she partook in social events during her young adult years‚ the world remembers her as a recluse. Dickinson never married‚ yet there are many speculative theories about her love life. Some critics claim that she was perhaps America’s first lesbian
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through the eyes of one of his closest friends‚ identified in the score before each variation by initials or a nickname. The identities of each individual were revealed by Elgar himself in program notes for various performances‚ as well as in his posthumous publication My Friends Pictured Within: Enigma Variations‚ which
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WHY IS DEATH BAD? 217 I am an exile from some country‚ where I have left my widowed mother. Though I am deeply concerned about her‚ I very seldom get news. I have known for some time that she is fatally ill‚ and cannot live long. I am now told something new. My mother’s illness has become very painful‚ in a way that drugs cannot relieve. For the next few months‚ before she dies‚ she faces a terrible ordeal. That she will soon die I already knew. But I am deeply distressed to learn of the suffering
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D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)‚ English novelist‚ storywriter‚ critic‚ poet and painter‚ one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11‚ 1885‚ in Eastwood‚ Nottinghamshire‚ central England. He was the fourth child of a struggling coal miner who was a heavy drinker. His mother was a former schoolteacher‚ greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrence’s childhood was dominated by poverty and friction between his parents. He was educated
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Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20‚ 1822 – January 6‚ 1884) was a German speaking Silisean scientist and Augustrian Friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns‚ now referred to as the laws of Mendalian Science. The profound significance of Mendel’s work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century‚ when the independent rediscovery of these laws initiated the
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After slaying the Nemean lion‚ Eurystheus sent Heracles to slay the Hydra‚ which Hera had raised just to slay Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna‚ where the Hydra dwelt‚ Heracles covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes. He fired flaming arrows into the Hydra’s lair‚ the spring of Amymone‚ a deep cave that it only came out of to terrorize neighboring villages.[4] He then confronted the Hydra‚ wielding a harvesting sickle (according to some
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Sir Mohammed Iqbal was born at Sialkot‚ India (now in Pakistan)‚ on 9th November‚ 1877 of a pious family of small merchants and was educated at Government College‚ Lahore. He is commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal (علامہ اقبال‚ Allama meaning "Scholar"). In Europe from 1905 to 1908‚ he earned his degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge‚ qualified as a barrister in London‚ and received a doctorate from the University of Munich. His thesis‚ The Development of Metaphysics in Persia
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