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Relativity of Time and Freedom

February 23rd, 2024

An Untimely Escape: The Relativity of Time and Freedom in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad 2nd October 2023Academic blogSenne van der Zijden Everyone aboard? Next stop, freedom. Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad cleverly interweaves time and space in a fictional network that reinvents the history of the underground railroad, and the pathways to freedom it provided. The historical basis of this novel nevertheless proves to be in an ambiguous relat...

Hells Heroes or - The Three Godfathers

January 22nd, 2023

The original version of this tale was a short story, "Broncho Billy and the Baby", which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1910 and was the basis for an Essanay short film of the same name. The short story is credited as the basis for Kyne’s later novel ‘The Three Godfathers’ in 1913; an online version is dated 1916 and would seem no longer than the original story. Set in Arizona, the basic plot has a gang of bank robbers stumble on a covered wagon where a dying woman entrusts her ba...

How House of the Dragon Mirrors The Anarchy in England

December 8th, 2022

Now that the hugely successful first season of HBO’s House of the Dragon has aired, it is safe for us to do an analysis of how much and how closely the events and characters mirrored those of actual history. It is no secret that George R.R. Martin drew inspiration for some of his storylines for the smash hit Game of Thrones from historic events, but what about the spin off, House of the Dragon ? Well, at a Comic-Con panel in 2022, Martin explained how G.O.T. had been loosely based around t...

Public Domain Day 2022: Trespassers Will

May 16th, 2022

The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather’s name, and had been in the family for a long time, Christopher Robin said you couldn’t be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, because his gran...

Brain Waves Transcendental Fields and Techniques of Thought

July 15th, 2021

Brain Waves Transcendental Fields and Techniques of Thought https://brewminate.com/brain-waves-transcendental-fields-and-techniques-of-thought/ Created July 15 2021 at 03:44AM Photo by Bryan Jones Creative Commons Exploring the half-second delay between the reception of sensory material and conscious interpretation of it. By Dr. William E. ConnollyKrieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political TheoryJohns Hopkins University Introduction Now I say that mind and anima are held in union wit...

Discovering LaRochefoucauld | The New Criterion

September 7th, 2020

The lightning & the key: a letter from William Franklin to Joseph Priestlyby Daniel Mark Epstein Exile to exile, England to America, Driven hence by nothing more than faith In our convictions, we commune once more, Old friend, man of science, man of God. Here they torched your house, there they burnt mine. Here your people fear your love of France— Marat, Danton, and the bonnet rouge— As mine once feared my fealty to the Crown. Hail, fellow, outcast across the sea! And thanks abundant, deep, ...

Ectropy (idea) by ianah0 - Everything2.com

August 23rd, 2020

Ectropy (idea) See all of Ectropy, no other writeups in this node. by ianah0 (4.2 y) CC Rep: 2 ( +8 / -6 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri Jan 09 2004 at 10:09:54 While discussing the coaction cardioid,in 1969, Willard Van Orman Quine coined the word ectropy. He reasoned that since entropy is Greek for turning in, the opposite term, turning out, in Greek would be ectropy. Ectropy also refers to the general increase in organization, or making order from chaos. It also lead to the coining ...

US Highway 231 - Everything2.com

August 9th, 2020

US Highway 231 - Everything2.com US Highway 231 was one of the original United States federal highways commissioned by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO, now AASHTO) in November, 1926. Its original routing, as laid out in the Joint Board on Interstate Highways plan of 1925, was from Montgomery, Alabama to Marianna, Florida. The highway was given the number "231" since it was to be the second branch of US Highway 31 (US Highway 131 was already in existence in Michiga...

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (person) by aneurin - Everything2.com

July 28th, 2020

Near MatchesIgnore ExactFull TextEverything2William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (person)See all of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, no other writeups in this node.(person)by aneurinThu Oct 14 2004 at 6:16:011st Baron Herbert of Raglan (1461-1469)1st Earl of Pembroke of the First Creation (1468-1469)Also known as 'Gwilym Ddu' or 'Black William'Born 1423 Died 1469William's originsKnown originally as 'Gwilym ap Gwilym' or 'William son of William&ap...

William Miller | Christian History

July 3rd, 2020

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Theophrastus — De historia plantarum 1644 - The Library of William Morris

January 10th, 2020

Menu Skip to primary content HomeAbbreviations About Acknowledgments Technical issues Search The Library of William Morris A Catalogue ¶ Theophrastus — De historia plantarum (1644) Theophrastus. Theophrasti Eresii De historia plantarum libri decem, graecè et latinè. Amsterdam: H. Laurentius, 1644. Illustrated. Provenance: Mo...

Will Self - 10 Rules For Writing Fiction - is that a pen name Q

October 8th, 2019

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Conspiring with ‘friends’: Hester Pulter’s Poetry and the Stanley Family at Cumberlow Green

July 21st, 2019

Conspiring with ‘friends’: Hester Pulter’s Poetry and the Stanley Family at Cumberlow Green Karen Britland The Review of English Studies, Volume 69, Issue 292, November 2018, Pages 832–854, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/h...