Ulysses SIMPSON Grant

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2Ulysses S. Grant (idea)See all of Ulysses S. Grant, there is 1 more in this node.(idea)by Grzcyrgba Sun May 06 2001 at 15:06:30 Grant on the causes of the American Civil War: excerpted from his Personal Memoirs, Chapter 16 (public domain, published 1885, from the Penguin Classics edition of 1999). Up to the Mexican War there were a few out and out abolitionists, men who carried their hostility to slavery into all elections, from those for a ...

Ships of the Gods of Ancient Egypt

The solar barque of Ra. Outer Coffin of Isetemkheb D (Royal Cache TT 320, Deir el-Bahari), Egyptian Museum, CG 610031. / CESRAS Russian Academy of Sciences, Flickr, Creative Commons Ships known as Barques of the Gods are associated with a number of different Egyptian deities. By Dr. Joshua J. MarkProfessor of PhilosophyMarist College Introduction The Nile River was the source of life for the ancient Egyptians...

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Book

Book see Flower see Pig That the word ‘‘book’’ occurs over a hundred times in the Old Testament is not surprising given the importance of sacred books to the Hebrews. Books were far less important to the Greeks, who tended to rely more on oral tradition; for all the care given to editing him even ‘‘Homer’’ was never a holy text. Various particular books are named in the Old Testament, some of them otherwise unknown to us, but when the Lord tells Joshua that ‘‘This book of the law shall not...

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Page 114 of Gravity’s Rainbow begins chapter 8 - Working for the Nazis

CHAPTER 8 Working for the Nazis Once conditioned at the Casino Hermann Goering, Slothrop seems so well synced to the rocket that They can set him quasi-free in the Zone to see what he turns up, his colonized mind posing little threat to the system. His case represents the extent to which domination in Gravity’s Rainbow depends on institutions that condition subjects’ behaviors in ways simulating self-control and masking the Manchurian Candidate–style mind control that it actually entails. S...

The Pig and His Way of Life (thing) by Sverre - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Pig and His Way of Life (thing) See all of The Pig and His Way of Life, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Sverre Mon Dec 23 2002 at 11:06:45 "Grisen og levemåten hans" is a Norwegian fairy tale from Asbjørnsen and Moe's Norwegian Folk Tales, collected in the early 1840s. The original, Norwegian text was found at Project Runeberg and translated by me for E2. Enjoy! --- There was once a pig who was bored of h...

SimpC - Big O Notation in mathematics

History and Terminology > Notation > Calculus and Analysis > Series > Asymptotic Series > MathWorld Contributors > Stover > Interactive Entries > Interactive Demonstrations > Big-O NotationThe symbol , pronounced "big-O of ," is one of the Landau symbolsand is used to symbolically express the asymptotic behavior of a given function. In particular, if is an integer variable which tends to infinity and is a continuous variable tending to some limit, if and are positive functions, and if an...

Little-O Notation -- from Wolfram MathWorld

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Ineffable Name

HomeWhat is Freemasonry?Grand LodgeGrand MasterLiving Past Grand MastersProgramsLodgesFormsNewsCalendarContactJoin Now The Ineffable Name Bro. Roy F. Pruett One of the most important symbols in Freemasonry is the ineffable, or incommunicable name of God. Often called the Tetragrammaton, from the Greek tetr...

ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLS AS SECRET CODE · Unveiling the Secrets: The Evolution of Modern Chemistry · Hay Exhibits

Skip to main content Search Hay Exhibits Browse Items Browse Collections Browse Exhibits About ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLS AS SECRET CODE Basil Valentine, Azoth, Ou Le Moyen de F...

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From the Archives: Out of Sight | Film Quarterly

About Advertise Contact Submit Subscribe Film Quarterly Film Quarterly offers serious film lovers in-depth articles, reviews, and interviews that examine all aspects of film history, film theory, and the impact of film, video, and television on culture and society. Menu From the Archives Published on April 7, 2020 From the Archives: Out of Sight written by Film Quarterly Editor’...

Newcomb Weisenberger Remembers KFI

Newcomb Weisenberger Remembers KFI   Newcomb Weisenberger worked in KFI's  engineering department for 33 years from 1947 until  his retirement in 1980. During his tenure - from Earle C. Anthony's time  until after the station was sold to Cox  Communications -. Newcomb saw many changes  in the powerhouse station. He shares his memories  with us.  You can email Newcomb here Newcomb also has a small web pag...

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Why Christians Should Read Virgil

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To see the antisemitism of medieval bestiaries, look for the owl | Aeon Ideas

Support Aeon‘As a professor, I can teach entire classes using Aeon articles. As a reader, I always find something that teaches me.’Greg S, USA, Friend of AeonAeon is a registered charity committed to the spread of knowledge and a cosmopolitan worldview. Our mission is to create a sanctuary online for serious thinking.No ads, no paywall, no clickbait – just thought-provoking ideas from the world’s leading thinkers, free to all. But we can’t do it without you.Aeon is a registered charity commit...

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argent | Origin and meaning of argent by Online Etymology Dictionary

argent (n.)early 15c., "silver, silver coin," from Old French argent "silver, silver money; quicksilver" (11c.), from Latin argentum "silver, silver work, silver money," from PIE *arg-ent-, suffixed form of root *arg- "to shine; white," thus "silver" as "the shining or white metal." Earlier in English in the sense "quicksilver, the metal mercury" (c. 1300); the adjective sense "silver-colored" is from late 15c.Rel...

silver | Origin and meaning of silver by Online Etymology Dictionary

silver (n.)Old English seolfor, Mercian sylfur "silver; money," from Proto-Germanic *silabur- (source also of Old Saxon silvbar, Old Frisian selover, Old Norse silfr, Middle Dutch silver, Dutch zilver, Old High German silabar, German silber "silver; money," Gothic silubr "silver"), which is of uncertain origin.It seems to be Germanic/Balto-Slavic (source also of Old Church Slavonic s(u)rebo, Russian serebro, Polish srebro, Lithuanian sidabras "silver"),...

Shadows and shape shifting - Fools Gold - and other TLS clips

Light Caught Bending - TLS 20 March 2020 edition