Mosses From An Old Manse

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Brighton Rock tour for Mina

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"To most people in Bush-voting states, Vermont is a province of Canada, and they don't mean that in a good way. "

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ABCNEWS.com : The Note characteristically brilliant on Dean today

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Battle of Kursk

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The next remarkable object was a large edifice, constructed of moss grown stone, but in a modern and airy style of architecture. The engine came to a pause in its vicinity with the usual tremendous shriek.

"This was formerly the castle of the redoubted giant Despair," observed Mr. Smooth-it-away; "but, since his death, Mr. Flimsy-faith has repaired it, and now keeps an excellent house of entertainment here. It is one of our stopping- places."

"It seems but slightly put together," remarked I, looking at the frail, yet ponderous walls. "I do not envy Mr. Flimsy-faith his habitation. Some day it will thunder down upon the heads of the occupants."

"We shall escape, at all events," said Mr. Smooth-it-away; "for Apollyon is putting on the steam again."

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Hawthorne and His Mosses

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"when the neighbours laughed at the hoary-headed man for planting trees from which he could have no prospect of gathering fruit... But the old minister, before reaching his patriarchal age of 90, ate the apples from this orchard during many years, and added silver and gold to his annual stipend, by disposing of the superfluity. It is pleasant to think of him walking among the trees in the quiet afternoons of early autumn, and picking up here and there a windfall; while he observes how heavily the branches are weighed down, and computes the number of empty flour-barrels that will be filled by their burden. He loved each tree, doubtless as if it had been his own child. An orchard has a relation to mankind, and readily connects itself with matters of the heart."

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Belated Birthday Greetings to the esteemed titler of this Blog

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cat attack

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frogs

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flotsam

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BoxBots

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Harry Reser-- banjo extraordinaire

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(10) Aneurin Bevan, speech at a Labour Party meeting (July, 1945)

There is no absence of knowledge, there is no lack of wisdom, as to what to do in Great Britain. What is lacking is that the power lies in the wrong hands and the will to do it is not there. We want to tell our friends on the other side that the men in the Services are not going to allow a repetition of what happened between the wars. We are not going to allow our financial resources to be sent all over the world, and idleness and starvation to exist in Great Britain. And we warn them we are entering this fight with this in our hearts. We were brought up between the two wars in the distressed areas of this country, and we have such biting and bitter memories we will never be erased until the Tories are destroyed on every political platform in the country. We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, now we are the builders. We enter this campaign at this general election, not merely to get rid of the Tory majority. We want the complete political extinction of the Tory Party.

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National Insurance Act introduced today 1948 conceived by Aneurin Bevan

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He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies.

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Common Sense

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Habeas Corpus Act 1679

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Petition of Right

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The Avalon Project : Magna Carta

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The Secret History of the Magna Carta

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Paul Smith's Typewriter Art

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Canada: Hippie Nation?

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Happy Birthday Fontella Bass

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Brian Kim Stefans on Silliman on Lowell

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amazing Jacques Tati site

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O seal of Gowanus!

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Big Bear Surrenders

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The Battle of Marston Moor

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21. Haida Gwaii

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20. Rabid

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19. Wilf Carter

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18. Maureen Forrester

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17. mavis gallant

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An American's Guide to Canada

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Canada

("k&n@d@)

The name of a country in N. America.

1. Used attrib. in the names of various commercial products, animals, and plants, as Canada agaric, goose, stag, etc.; esp. C. balsam, a pale balsam or resin derived from Abies balsamea, and A. canadensis, used in medicine, and as a transparent gum for mounting microscopic objects; C. rice, an aquatic grass (Hydropyrum esculentum), whose seeds feed great flocks of water-fowl, and are also used as food by the natives; C. tea, the leaves of Gaultheria procumbens, used to flavour tea, or as a substitute for it; Mountain Tea; C. turpentine = Canada balsam.

[1624 Capt. Smith Virginia vi. 205, I had+called it New England, yet so long he [Thomas Hunt] and his Consorts drowned that name with the Eccho of Cannaday.] 1840 Gosse Canadian Nat., The bark of the fir or balsam is covered with bladders full of a fluid resin+this is the *Canada-balsam of the apothecaries.

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1861 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 284 *Canada Flea-bane+a dull-looking plant, with small heads of dingy flowers.
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1772 Forster Hudson's Bay Birds in Phil. Trans. LXII. 414 The *Canada geese are very plentiful at Hudson's Bay. 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 308/1 The Canada Goose generally builds its nest on the ground.
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1842 Ibid. XXIII. 120/1 This [Surnia funerea] is the+*Canada Owl of Latham.
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1869 T. Burroughs in Galaxy Mag. Aug., The tree or *Canada-sparrow.
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1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 359/1 The French in America call this beast [Cervus Wapiti] the *Canada Stag.
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[1624] 1772

2. ellipt. for Canada goose. Chiefly N. Amer.

1871 W. N. Lewis Poultry Bk. 90 The America Wild Goose is identical with the Canada. 1922 H. Bigelow Scatter-gun Sk. 109 The old Canada came down in a heap. 1955 W. G. Hardy Alberta Golden Jubilee Anthol. 378 Then it was mostly drakes you saw, or Canadas that had lost their mates. 1965 Water Prey & Game Birds N. Amer. (Nat. Geogr. Soc.) 138 Our local geese are Canadas — large honkers, brown with black necks and white cheeks. 1980 Outdoor Life (Northeast ed.) Oct. 84/2 Our huge population of Canadas is due to several factors.

1980
1965
1955
1871 1922

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more from My Cold War

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Happy Canada Day pt 1. La Regione Centrale

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pt 2. Angela Hewitt

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pt 3. Stan Rogers

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pt 4. Tommy Douglas

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pt. 5. Margaret Avison

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pt. 6. Gerry Gilbert

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pt. 7. Poutine

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pt. 8. SCTV

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pt. 9 Kraft Dinner

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pt. 10 Hank Snow

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pt. 12 Anton Kuerti

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pt. 11 bp Nichol

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pt. 13 Lenny Breau

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pt. 14 Ferguson Jenkins

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pt. 15 Stompin' Tom Connors

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pt. 16 Dare Maple Cookies

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why didn't the Romans invent photography?

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The Pinetree Line--Cold War Canadiana. I was a kid in Falconbrige, Holberg, Dana and Cold Lake.

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Holberg, BC, at the top of Vancouver Island, another RCAF base, amongst my first memories being taken to see the bears at the dump

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and a dead whale at Coal Harbour.

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Our house on the left 1965.

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Dana, Saskatchewan. I was here 64-66. Appears to be abandoned now.

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The Pears of New York

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The Small Fruits of New York

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The Apples of New York

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A Shoal of Fish

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charles sheeler

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Boring postcards

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The Mountie Collection

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Ruavista - Painted Shop Signs in Paris, 1900

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The Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products

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Happy Birthday Buddy Rich!

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Glasgow School of Art

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lots to read in the new Raintaxi

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Pullman's Dark Materials

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FOUND Magazine

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¶ I’m interested to know what you thought of Language Writing at this point.

When the new neighbors moved in, they looked a lot like us. I borrowed a barbecue from them, and because they had a spare, I didn’t return it. Eventually. I broke it. By then, their kids had broken all the windows in our shed, so nothing was said about that, either.

Jacket 22 - Doug Powell interviews David Bromige

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Mike! Sign her up!

from the Guardian

Emma Arden, 11, was not among those queueing for a copy of the new Harry Potter:

I definitely won't be rushing down to the bookshop for my copy and I will be trying my best to ignore all the excitement and hype.

I did try reading the first book. I actually finished it, but I knew early on I didn't like the whole idea of it. It was so unoriginal. There were all sorts of ideas copied from other books. Harry was an orphan and he had a horrid cousin who made his life difficult. That isn't so different from Cinderella.

The elf in the second book reminds me of Gollum, and the woods in the first book with the talking unicorns is something that could have come straight out of Narnia. The whole revenge plot between Harry and Voldemort is also a bit boring and has been done loads of times before.

The characters are a bit stereotyped and the way JK Rowling writes is flat and boring. It is like a grown-up talking to children. I find it quite patronising. I am surprised that adults read the books. They are children's fantasy stories. Maybe they want to read them to reconnect with their childhoods, maybe they want to see what the fuss is all about, or maybe they are bored.

When the first book came out there was so much hype. Since the other books, movies and merchandise have come out it has got a bit silly.

I think queueing up at midnight is a bit excessive. It isn't the end of the world if you don't get one book, or you get it a bit late. It is only a book about a boy who is a wizard. A book like that isn't going to change anything.

I also think that if they are releasing this for children then they should do it during the day, instead of in the middle of the night.

My friends know that I am not interested, so they talk to me about other stuff. I used to have to remind them all the time that I didn't want to chat about Harry Potter, but now it is fine. It is just my opinion and they accept that.

They do like the books, but they wouldn't go to get a copy in the middle of the night.

People have Harry Potter parties and I did feel left out at first. I was invited to a few when the first book became popular. I didn't go to the first fancy dress party because I just didn't like the idea of it and didn't want to pretend that I did.

The next one was to see the movie and I went because I wanted to see if they had made it better than the book. It was still a bit unrealistic for me. I can't believe in the fantasy world. That doesn't draw me into books. I prefer realistic stories that I can relate to. I like reading books about real problems and real lives by authors like Nina Bawden and Catherine MacPhail.

If it hadn't been for the publicity then I don't think Harry Potter would have become such a big thing. I don't think the hype will last forever. I don't believe it is something that has real staying power.

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Flower Fairies of the Summer

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Pome

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LRB | Jenny Diski : Flowery, rustic, tippy, smokey

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Lemonade Recipes

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Pigments through the Ages

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Dialect Survey Results

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Interactivist Info Exchange: Independent Media & Analysis

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Railroad Maps Collection

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Old Finnish Toys

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City of Shadows

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Pickle Juice's Uses

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Gary, Indiana

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A Trip to the Moon

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The Mercury Theatre on the Air

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Don Quijote: Engravings by Gustavo Doré #2

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HOMAGE TO BAUDELAIRE

From the receiving set fooleries
of a philosophical school
which to the terminals marked "Radio"
one sees in dreams of this type
the rear panel,
and set sometimes a reproach,
sometimes a warning; selector switch on the "Radio" position.
In short, a symbolic and moral picture
begotten in the spirit itself of the sleeper. It is a dictionary
which one must study; a language
of which sages may obtain the key.

Meaning or connection with the compartment lamp
is the character, the life, and the socket for inserting
the plug of passions of the sleeper: this dream, a monitoring speaker.

The volume which I shall call hieroglyphic,
evidently control knobs, the volume of representations
the supernatural side of life, their respective pickups.

The radio volume is used exactly because control
would be used only if absurd,
the ancients believed the amplifying equipment
used it to be divine. As it amplifies
the radio program received upon,
inexplicable by natural causes, they an individual radio set.
If it attributed to it a cause external in front his vices,
combine themselves in the lamp,
it lights manner more or less bizarre with
only when the power switch is the
objects which he has met on. The three signal lamps in in his day's work,
which have the right-hand corner controlled
carelessly fixed themselves upon the vast the rear of the theatre.

Signals canvas his memory. That is
may be arranged with someone stationed the natural dream;
it is in the theatre at the signal man himself.
But the other kind of lamp controls, for the proper monitoring of dream,
the dream absurd and the volume.

To the right unforseen, without it will automatically start again,
so of hashish from the phenomena of long as the switch is left dream.
In dream, that adventurous voyage on.
The pick-up lamps are used which we undertake every night,
there for illumination only.
They are neither is something positively miraculous.
It is signal nor pilot lights except in a miracle
whose punctual occurrence has so far
as they are always blunted its mystery.
The dreams of burning when the power switch
is man are of two classes. Some, turned on.
The compartment lamp, likewise,
full of his ordinary life, is for illumination only.

It operates his preoccupations, his desires,
off from the switch directly.
And since whenever the power switch is on,
ordinary run of readers
but either table can be easily questioned
the word "hashish" connotes the stopped by
simply pressing
a finger idea of a strange and topsy-turvy
against it until it comes to world,
the expectation of prodigious dreams rest.

This can be done without (it would be better to say damage
to the mechanism as each hallucinations, which are,
by the way, turntable driven by a separation less frequent than people suppose)
One electric motor.

If a turntable has will at once remark upon
has been stopped to change a record,
important difference which separates the effects.
Three contain to know, resembling that of those two
78 r.p.m. turntables and the people who have never quitted their other,
contains three turntables of the firesides when they meet a man same speed.
The phonograph who returns from distant and unknown
wooden case
contains two 78 r.p.m. countries.

They imagine hashish-drunkenness to themselves turntables.

Non-Synchronous.
What does one experience?
The purpose of the one see?
Wonderful sights? Is it music in the absence of an very beautiful?
and very terrible?
and orchestra, or during the showing of very dangerous?
Such are the usual pictures for which no special
sound questions
which, with a curiosity mingled
accompaniment is provided. It also provides with fear,
those ignorant of hashish a method for playing overtures
and address to its adepts.
It is, exits.
The childish impatience in four steel cases.

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Search the Proceedings of the Old Bailey

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Happy Birthday Baudelaire

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Photos of Tallin

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found these amazing plates.

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Plep

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Homage to Georges Perec and Peggy Hill

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Quantum Sonnet

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Jordan reviews Lee Ann