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Outside of his academic pursuits, Shannon was interested in juggling, unicycling, and chess. He also invented many devices, including rocket-powered flying discs, a motorized pogo stick, and a flame-throwing trumpet.

Read: Shannon – A Mathematical Theory of Communication – 1948

Graphical representation of the constraints on telegraph symbols

He’ll save every one of us! Can Flash do it?

Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) and his attractive companion, Dale Arden (Melody Anderson), are called upon to stop him. Along the way, Flash must battle Ming’s goons and the temptations of a luscious space princess.

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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger, born July 30, 1947 is an Austrian American bodybuilder, actor, model, businessman, and politician. Arnold Alois S. is currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. His 1970 Movie »Hercules in New York« sports a rather intriguing plot: Hercules a young brute is bored living in Olympus (the home of the great Greek gods) and decides to move to New York. Obviously, it is not easy for him – a man who lived in ancient Greece – to get used to modern life … But fortunately there is no problem that can´t be solved with a well placed brawl, some rough stuff and a little help from a college professor’s daughter …

King Kong is a gigantic island-dwelling gorilla-like creature who dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman (Fay Wray). Movie directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, written by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman, story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace.

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Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984 …

Jacqueline Sassard and Stéphane Audran in “Les Biches” (1968)

Juliette Mayniel and Gérard Blain in “Les Cousins” (1959)

Michel Bouquet and Stéphane Audran in “Juste Avant la Nuit” (1971)

Paul Gégauff and wife Danièle in Chabrol’s “Une Partie de Plaisir” (1975)

Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera, 1909-1958.
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Labbe, Edmond – Exposition internationale des arts et des techniques, Paris 1937: rapport general. Tome 2, album annexe.
[Paris : Ministere du commerce et de lindustrie, [1941]
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Pair of false sideburns for sunglasses
Patent No. Des. 376,811
Issued: December 24, 1996
Inventor: Allen Lowe

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The Commanding Officer of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku watches as planes take off to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941. The Kanji inscription at left is an exhortation to pilots to do their duty.

Recovered from a Japanese Navy aircraft downed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. The chart identifies ship mooring locations and is entitled (at upper left): “Report on positions of enemy fleet at anchorage B”. The chart identifies mooring locations with a radial grid. Sectors and distances are coded by single katakana figures.

Cartoon found in a crashed Japanese Navy aircraft following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese inscription at left reads: “Hear! The voice of the moment of death. Wake up, you fools.”

View of Pearl Harbor looking southwesterly from the hills to the northward. Taken during the Japanese raid, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead.
Large column of smoke in lower center is from USS Arizona (BB-39). Smaller smoke columns further to the left are from the destroyers Shaw (DD-373), Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), in drydocks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.

Takes the oath prior to giving testimony during a Congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, during World War II.
Admiral Richardson was the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, from January 1940 until February 1941. He retired on 1 October 1942, but remained on active during the rest of World War II.

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“Syd is 25 now, and worried about getting old. “I wasn’t always this introverted,” he says, “I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.” Suddenly he points out the window. “Have you seen the roses? There’s a whole lot of colours.” Syd says he doesn’t take acid anymore, but he doesn’t want to talk about it… “There’s really nothing to say.” He goes into the garden and stretches out on an old wooden seat. “Once you’re into something…” he says, looking very puzzled. He stops. “I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway.”
- From Mick Rock’s final interview with Syd in Rolling Stone, Dec 1971

It may be proposed that the context, or surrounding, of art is more potent, more meaningful, more demanding of an artist´s attention, than the art itself. Put differently, it´s not what the artist touches that counts most. It´s what he doesn´t touch.

“The unicorns were the most recognisable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of failing altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic – however small – for any world to survive”.

Terry Brooks, The Black Unicorn

Portrait of Salvador Dalí for LIFE magazine by Philippe Halsman in a »making of« version: this version has a wider crop than the published version, showing the assistant holding the chair, the prop that lifts the stool, and the piano wires used to hold the picture and the easel in place (in fact the frame on the easel is still empty). Wet spots from some of the many previous attempts (28 in total … that’s 84 thrown cats) can also be seen on the floor.

Am 5. September 1977 wurde Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Köln entführt. Drei Sicherheitsbeamte sowie der Fahrer wurden erschossen. Das Foto zeigt drei Polizeibeamte, die am Tatort die Leiche eines der Opfer untersuchen. Im Hintergrund steht Schleyers Mercedes.

RAF-Geisel Hanns Martin Schleyer am 13.10.1977

Hanns-Martin Schleyer als Corpsstudent in Heidelberg.

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The Chosen Few MC started around 1959 in Los Angeles California. The Founding members were: Lionel, Lil Frank, Roger, Hawk, Slim, Shirly Bates, and Champ. These Brothers all Rode Full Dress Harleys & Chopped Dressers. The Purpose of the Club was to Ride and Enjoy the New Black Biker Set in Los Angeles & Oakland California.

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Leni Riefenstahl pictures of Mick Jagger for the Sunday Times Magazine in 1974

Muñca pure, muñca pacchato,
majjhe muñca, bhavassa pāragū.
Sabbattha vimuttamānaso,
na punaṃ jātijaraṃ upehisi.

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Let go of the past, let go of the future,
let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence.
With mind wholly liberated,
you shall come no more to birth and death.

Dhammapada 24.348

http://tipitaka.org/romn/cscd/s0502m.mul23.xml#para348
Translated from Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita

… Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Claude Jade Jean

Claude Lévi-Strauss (Brussels, 28 November 1908 – Paris, 30 October 2009)

A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress.

“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been. I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing.”

Mitch Corber, “Corber/Jolson goes to Harlem,” Performance, 1974

Waiters in the Grand Hotel Dining Room watching Sonja Henie ice skating. St. Moritz 1932 – Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Sonja Henie during one of her skating routines for International Pictures’ »It’s A Pleasure«.

The Cramps were an American punk band, formed in 1976

Truman Capote’s masked ball, at New York City’s Plaza Hotel on November 28, 1966

Emaciated Horse by Gong Kai – ink on paper handscroll, 29.9 x 56.9 cm. After Mongol Kublai Khan, leading the Yuan Dynasty, conquered the Southern Song Dynasty of China in 1279, Gong Kai remained a Song loyalist and refused to serve Kublai’s government. This painting of an emaciated horse represents his own poverty-stricken conditions that he imposed on himself since he refused to serve as a government official.

From the 1940s until the 1960s, Lillian Bassman worked as a fashion photographer for Junior Bazaar and later at Harper’s Bazaar

Des tableaux graphiques et des cartes figuratives (Paris, 1862)
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Photo of Campse Ashe, Suffolk, 1903 – English Gardens in the Twentieth Century, by Tim Richardson.

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The Codex Manesse, or Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift is an illuminated manuscript in codex form copied and illustrated between ca. 1304  - 1340. The codex was produced in Zürich at the request of the Manesse family. It is the single most comprehensive source for the texts of love songs in Middle High German, representing 140 poets, several of whom were famous rulers.

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Saint Apollinaris (Italian: Apollinare) is a Syrian saint, whom the Roman Martyrology describes as “a bishop who, according to tradition, while spreading among the nations the unsearchable riches of Christ, led his flock as a good shepherd and honoured the Church of Classis near Ravenna by a glorious martyrdom.

Saint Francis of Xavier was a Navarrese Catholic missionary of Basque origin. One of the first Jesuits, he was one of seven first Jesuits who dedicated themselves to the service of God. Xavier was a papal legate, but he was also under commission from the Portuguese king when he arrived in Goa. The father of Christian Missionary Movement, Xavier tried to convert the Indians, Batarians, Filipinos and the Japanese in the Far East, and died en route to China in 1552.

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The Book of Durrow (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 15. (57)) is a 7th century illuminated manuscript in the Insular style made either at Durrow Abbey near Durrow in County Offaly Ireland, or in Northumbria in Northern England.

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View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826, Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. Captured on 20 × 25 cm oil-treated bitumen. Due to the 8-hour exposure, the buildings are illuminated by the sun from both right and left.

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By Ledi Sayadaw Mahathera
Translated by U Ñana Mahathera

Contents

Publisher’s Foreword to the Second BPS Edition

Vipassana Dipani - The Exposition of Insight
The Three Hallucinations – The Simile of the Wild Deer – The Simile of the Magician – The Simile of the Man who has lost his Way – The Three Fantasies (maññana) – The Two Dogmatic Beliefs (abhinivesa) – The Two Stages (bhumi) – The Two Destinations (gati) – Nakhasikha Sutta (The Sutta on the Fingernail) – Kanakacchapa Sutta (The Sutta on the Blind Turtle) – Explanation of the Two Destinations – The Two Truths (sacca) – Material Phenomena – Four Great Essentials (mahabhuta)

Derived Materiality (upada-rupa)
The Six Bases (vatthu) – The Two Sexes (bhava) – The Vital Force (jivita-rupa) – Material Nutrition (ahara-rupa) – The Four Sense Fields (gocara-rupa) – The Element of Space (akasa-dhatu) – The Two Modes of Communications (viññatti-rupa) – The Three Plasticities (vikara-rupa) – The Four Salient Features (lakkhana-rupa) – The Four Producers of Material Phenomena

Mental Phenomena
Consciousness – Cetasikas or Mental Properties – The Common Properties – The Particular Properties – The Immoral Properties – The Moral Properties – Nibbana – Causes I – Causes II – The Two Abhiññanas or Super-Knowledges – The Three Pariññas or Profound Knowledges – The Growth, Decay, and Death of the Material Aggregates – The Growth, Decay, and Death of the Mental Phenomena

The Exposition of Tirana-pariñña
The Mark of Impermanence in Matter – The Mark of Impermanence in Mental Phenomena – The Mark of Ill – The Eleven Marks of Ill – The Mark of No-soul – How the Marks of Impermanence and Ill become Marks of No-soul – The Three Knowledges pertaining to Insight of the Three Marks

The Exposition of Pahana-pariñña
The Five Kinds of Dispelling – The Practice of Insight Meditation

Conclusion

A Life Sketch of the Venerable Ledi Sayadaw

Publisher’s Foreword to the Second BPS Edition
The Venerable Ledi Sayadaw’s The Manual of Insight was first published in book form by The Society for Promoting Buddhism in Foreign Countries, which was centred in Mandalay, Burma. It was later serialised in the journal The Light of the Dhamma (Rangoon), Vols. I and II. The full text appeared in a collection of Ledi Sayadaw’s treatises, The Manuals of Buddhism, (Rangoon: Union of Burma Buddha Sasana Council. 1965).

The first BPS edition of The Manual of Insight introduced a few minor changes in style and terminology, and replaced a large number of the abundant Pali words by their English equivalents. This second edition carries through the same editorial policy which guided the work on the first edition. For the benefit of modern readers, the style has been simplified and streamlined, archaic and quaint expressions replaced by more contemporary ones, and the substitution of English for Pali executed more thoroughly. It is hoped that these revisions will make this valuable and illuminating treatise easier reading, and a useful and practical guide in achieving the purpose for which it was originally written: the development of meditative insight.

Vipassana Dipani - The Exposition of Insight

The Three Hallucinations

Vipallasa means hallucination, delusion, erroneous observation, [1] or taking that which is true as false and that which is false as true.
There are three kinds of hallucination:

1. Sañña-vipallasa: hallucination of perception
2. Citta-vipallasa: hallucination of thought
3. Ditthi-vipallasa: hallucination of views

Of those three, hallucination of perception is fourfold. It erroneously perceives:

1. Impermanence as permanence
2. Impurity as purity
3. Suffering as happiness
4. No-soul as soul

The same holds good with regard to the remaining two hallucinations, those of thinking and views. All these classifications come under the category of “This is mine! This is my self or living soul!” and will be made clear later. The three hallucinations may be illustrated respectively by the similes of the wild deer, the magician, and a man who has lost his way.

The Simile of the Wild Deer
This is the simile of the wild deer to illustrate the hallucination of perception.
In the middle of a great forest a certain husbandman cultivated a piece of paddy land. While the cultivator was away, wild deer were in the habit of coming to the field and eating the young sprouts of growing grain. So the cultivator put some straw together into the shape of a man and set it up in the middle of the field in order to frighten the deer away. He tied the straw together with fibres into the semblance of a body, with head, hands, and legs; and with white lime painting on a pot the lineaments of a human face, he set it on the top of the body. He also covered the artificial man with some old clothes such as a coat, and so forth, and put a bow and arrow into his hands. Now the deer came as usual to eat the young paddy; but approaching it and catching sight of the artificial man, they took it for a real one, were frightened, and ran away.
In this illustration, the wild deer had seen men before and retained in their memory the perception of the shape and form of men. In accordance with their present perception, they took the straw man for a real man. Thus their perception was an erroneous perception. The hallucination of perception is as here shown in this allegory of the wild deer. It is very clear and easy to understand.

This particular hallucination is also illustrated by the case of a bewildered man who has lost his way and cannot make out the cardinal points, east and west, in the locality in which he is, although the rising and setting of the sun may be distinctly perceived by anyone with open eyes. If the error has once been made, it establishes itself very firmly, and can be removed only with great difficulty. There are many things within ourselves which we always apprehend erroneously and in a sense that is the reverse of the truth as regards impermanence and no-soul. Thus through the hallucination of perception we apprehend things erroneously in exactly the same way that the wild deer take the straw man to be a real man, even with their eyes wide open.

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1.-Marcellin.-2.-Shamrock.-3.-Melon.-4.-Marquise.-5.-Vermicelli.-6.-Violet

1. Mocha Slice. 2. Almond Peach. 3.Fancy Meringue. 4. Almond Tartlets. 5. Rognon. 6. Fanchonette. 7. Cocoanut Tartlets. 8. Fancy Cream Bun. 9. Panier en Genoise. 10. Fancy Meringue. 11. Fancy Meringue. 12. Surprise. 13. Neapolitan. 14. Cream Basket. 15. Avondale Creams. 16. Masked Genoise. 17. Almond Cream. 18. Fancy Meringue. 19. Bouche Citron. 20. Raspberry Gateau. 21. Bouche Macedoine. 22. Bonne Bouche. 23. Cream Buns. 24. Bouche Chocolat

1.-Giteau-Souvaroff.-2.-Giteau-Cavour.-3.-Giteau-Damier.-4.-Imperial-Gateau.-5.-Tricoloured-Gateau.-6.-Avondale-Gateau.-7.-Sunflower-Gateau.-8.-Erin-Gateau.-9.-Etoile-Giteau

The modern baker, confectioner and caterer; a practical and scientific work for the baking and allied trades. Edited by John Kirkland. With contributions from leading specialists and trade experts …

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Sr. Exzellenz,
dem
Königl. Staatsminister
Freiherrn von Zedlitz

Gnädiger Herr!

Den Wachstum der Wissenschaften an seinem Teile befördern, heißt an Ew. Exzellenz eigenem Interesse arbeiten; denn dieses ist mit jenen, nicht bloß durch den erhabenen Posten eines Beschützers, sondern durch das viel vertrautere eines Liebhabers und erleuchteten Kenners, innigst verbunden. Deswegen bediene ich mich auch des einigen Mittels, das gewissermaßen in meinem Vermögen ist, meine Dankbarkeit für das gnädige Zutrauen zu bezeigen, womit Ew. Exzellenz mich beehren, als könne ich zu dieser Absicht etwas beitragen.

Demselben gnädigen Augenmerke, dessen Ew. Exzellenz die erste Auflage dieses Werks gewürdigt haben, widme ich nun auch diese zweite und hiermit zugleich alle übrige Angelegenheit meiner literarischen Bestimmung, und bin mit der tiefsten Verehrung

Ew. Exzellenz untertänig gehorsamster Diener
Königsberg den 23sten April 1787 Immanuel Kant

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Violinist Nathan Milstein, pianist Vladimir Horowitz & cellist Gregor Piatigorsky relaxing after a concert. Berlin – 1931 – Alfred Eisenstaedt

How short this life!
You die this side of a century,
but even if you live past,
you die of old age.

Sutta Nipāta 4.810

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TRANSLATED BY COLONEL J.J. GRAHAM
1874 was 1st edition of this translation. 1909 was the London reprinting.

CHAPTER I. WHAT IS WAR?

1. INTRODUCTION.
WE propose to consider first the single elements of our subject, then each branch or part, and, last of all, the whole, in all its relations—therefore to advance from the simple to the complex. But it is necessary for us to commence with a glance at the nature of the whole, because it is particularly necessary that in the consideration of any of the parts their relation to the whole should be kept constantly in view.

2. DEFINITION.
We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of War used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. If we would conceive as a unit the countless number of duels which make up a War, we shall do so best by supposing to ourselves two wrestlers. Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavours to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance.

WAR THEREFORE IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE INTENDED TO COMPEL OUR OPPONENT TO FULFIL OUR WILL.

Violence arms itself with the inventions of Art and Science in order to contend against violence. Self-imposed restrictions, almost imperceptible and hardly worth mentioning, termed usages of International Law, accompany it without essentially impairing its power. Violence, that is to say, physical force (for there is no moral force without the conception of States and Law), is therefore the MEANS; the compulsory submission of the enemy to our will is the ultimate object. In order to attain this object fully, the enemy must be disarmed, and disarmament becomes therefore the immediate OBJECT of hostilities in theory. It takes the place of the final object, and puts it aside as something we can eliminate from our calculations.

3. UTMOST USE OF FORCE.
Now, philanthropists may easily imagine there is a skilful method of disarming and overcoming an enemy without great bloodshed, and that this is the proper tendency of the Art of War. However plausible this may appear, still it is an error which must be extirpated; for in such dangerous things as War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst. As the use of physical power to the utmost extent by no means excludes the co-operation of the intelligence, it follows that he who uses force unsparingly, without reference to the bloodshed involved, must obtain a superiority if his adversary uses less vigour in its application. The former then dictates the law to the latter, and both proceed to extremities to which the only limitations are those imposed by the amount of counter-acting force on each side.

This is the way in which the matter must be viewed and it is to no purpose, it is even against one’s own interest, to turn away from the consideration of the real nature of the affair because the horror of its elements excites repugnance.

If the Wars of civilised people are less cruel and destructive than those of savages, the difference arises from the social condition both of States in themselves and in their relations to each other. Out of this social condition and its relations War arises, and by it War is subjected to conditions, is controlled and modified. But these things do not belong to War itself; they are only given conditions; and to introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.

Two motives lead men to War: instinctive hostility and hostile intention. In our definition of War, we have chosen as its characteristic the latter of these elements, because it is the most general. It is impossible to conceive the passion of hatred of the wildest description, bordering on mere instinct, without combining with it the idea of a hostile intention. On the other hand, hostile intentions may often exist without being accompanied by any, or at all events by any extreme, hostility of feeling. Amongst savages views emanating from the feelings, amongst civilised nations those emanating from the understanding, have the predominance; but this difference arises from attendant circumstances, existing institutions, &c., and, therefore, is not to be found necessarily in all cases, although it prevails in the majority. In short, even the most civilised nations may burn with passionate hatred of each other.

We may see from this what a fallacy it would be to refer the War of a civilised nation entirely to an intelligent act on the part of the Government, and to imagine it as continually freeing itself more and more from all feeling of passion in such a way that at last the physical masses of combatants would no longer be required; in reality, their mere relations would suffice—a kind of algebraic action.

Theory was beginning to drift in this direction until the facts of the last War(*) taught it better. If War is an ACT of force, it belongs necessarily also to the feelings. If it does not originate in the feelings, it REACTS, more or less, upon them, and the extent of this reaction depends not on the degree of civilisation, but upon the importance and duration of the interests involved.

(*) Clausewitz alludes here to the “Wars of Liberation,”
1813,14,15.
Therefore, if we find civilised nations do not put their prisoners to death, do not devastate towns and countries, this is because their intelligence exercises greater influence on their mode of carrying on War, and has taught them more effectual means of applying force than these rude acts of mere instinct. The invention of gunpowder, the constant progress of improvements in the construction of firearms, are sufficient proofs that the tendency to destroy the adversary which lies at the bottom of the conception of War is in no way changed or modified through the progress of civilisation.

We therefore repeat our proposition, that War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds; as one side dictates the law to the other, there arises a sort of reciprocal action, which logically must lead to an extreme. This is the first reciprocal action, and the first extreme with which we meet (FIRST RECIPROCAL ACTION).

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SPEECHES OF HIS MAJESTY KAMEHAMEHA IV. TO THE HAWAIIAN LEGISLATURE, WITH HIS MAJESTY’S REPLIES TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF FOREIGN NATIONS AND TO PUBLIC BODIES; ALSO WITH SUNDRY PROCLAMATIONS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO HIS ADVENT TO THE THRONE, WITH THE LAST PROCLAMATION AND AN OBITUARY OF HIS LATE MAJESTY KING KAMEHAMEHA III.

PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT PRESS 1861.

His Majesty’s Address on the occasion of taking the Oath prescribed by the Constitution. Extr. from Polynesian, Jan. 13, 1855.

I solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, to maintain the Constitution of the Kingdom whole and inviolate, and to govern in conformity with that and the laws. Immediately afterwards, His Highness the Kuhina Nui repeated the words “God preserve the King,” which were re-echoed everywhere throughout the Church with loud cheers; His Majesty’s Royal Standard and the National Ensign were hoisted and a royal salute fired from the fort. Afterwards it pleased the King to make a solemn and eloquent address, in native, to His subjects, which was received by them with great enthusiasm, a translation of which is as follows:

Give ear Hawaii o Keawe! Maui o Kama! Oahu o Kuihewa! Kauai o Mano!

In the providence of God, and by the will of his late Majesty Kamehameha III., this day read in your hearing, I have been called to the high and responsible position of the Chief Ruler of this nation. I am deeply sensible of the importance and sacredness of the great trust committed to my hands, and in the discharge of this trust, I shall abide by the Constitution and laws which I have just sworn to maintain and support. It is not my wish to entertain you on the present occasion with pleasant promises for the future; but I trust that the close of my career will show that I have not been raised to the head of this nation to oppress and curse it, but on the contrary to cheer and bless it, and that when I come to my end, I may, like the beloved Chief whose funeral we yesterday celebrated, pass from earth amid the bitter lamentation of my people.

The good, the generous, the kind hearted Kamehameha is now no more. Our great Chief has fallen! But though dead he still lives. He lives in the hearts of his people! He lives in the liberal, the just, and the beneficent measures which it was always his pleasure to adopt. His monuments rise to greet us on every side. They may be seen in the church, in the school house, and the hall of justice; in the security of our persons and property; in the peace, the law, the order and general prosperity that prevail throughout the islands. He was the friend of the Makaainana, the father of his people, and so long as a Hawaiian lives his memory will be cherished!

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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:

—Introibo ad altare Dei.

Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:

—Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!

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朝鮮總督府 Government General of Chosen (ed.), 『佛國寺と石窟庵』 Bukkokuji Temple and Sekkutsu-an Cave in Keishu, Chosen, March 1938.
Its associated commentary by Fujita Ryosaku 藤田亮策 does not give the date and author of the picture explicitly. It was taken sometime before the restoration project by the Government-General of Chosen in 1923. Judging from the preface, it was taken either by Imaseki Mitsuo 今關光夫 or *Sawa Shun’ichi 澤俊

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»Als ich 1913 den verzweifelten Versuch unternahm, die Kunst vom Gewicht der Dinge zu befreien, stellte ich ein Gemälde aus, das nicht mehr war als ein schwarzes Quadrat auf einem weißen Grundfeld … Es war kein leeres Quadrat, das ich ausstellte, sondern vielmehr die Empfindung der Gegenstandslosigkeit.

Das Quadrat = Empfindung Das weiße Feld = die Leere hinter dem Quadrat.«

By John Jay Smith and John F. Watson

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Jonathan Harker’s Journal

3 May. Bistritz.–Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.

The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.

We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburg. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem. get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.

I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don’t know how I should be able to get on without it.

Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman of that country.

I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.

DRACULA by Bram Stoker via: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/345/345-h/345-h.htm

On Lagos Island a Godzillasaurus was awaken by naval bombardment during WWII. After being seriously injured by American troops, Godzilla was left to die but mutated into a huge fire-breathing monster.

In the old series of films, King Ghidorah is a space monster who comes to earth inside a meteor. In the movie “Godzilla vs King Ghidora”, the monster is created by a clever trick by the bad guys: they replace the ailing godzillasaurus on Lagos island with 3 genetically engineered pets. These monsters are exposed to the nuclear radiation that originally created Godzilla and this creates King Ghidora.

Millions of years ago, a titanic terror from another realm arrived to destroy the planet Earth. Named Desghidorah, this three-headed dragon was forced to deal with resistance in the form of a species of highly advanced, enormous moths. These monsters were the protectors of the Elias, a race of tiny, humanlike, beings who inhabited the planet. After the ensuing battle, Desghidorah was defeated and sealed within the Earth, although a great deal of life on the planet Earth was lost. Three Elias: Lora, Mona, and Belvera, were all who were left of their once prosperous civilization. Though the benevolence of Moll and Lora was undeterred, Belvera became twisted and vengeful due to the mass extinction of her race. These tiny fairies, along with one final guardian named Mothra, lingered on for thousands of millennia.

In order to preserve her species, Mothra created an egg in 1996; however, she became physically exhausted from the ordeal. Shortly thereafter, a logging company uncovered the subterranean prison of the demonic hydra that had ravaged the Earth so long ago. When the seal that had bound the creature was removed from the area; Moll and Lora fought Belvera for control of the artifact. Belvera prevailed and managed to release Desghidorah from its rocky tomb, in order to exact her warped plans for destruction. Mothra was summoned to halt the detestable dragon, which was absorbing the life out of the environment. She fought a long and difficult battle to repel her ancient adversary, and in response to her declining strength, her young son, named Mothra Leo, hatched prematurely in order to assist his mother. Though his energized silk seemed to turn the tide of battle in the favor of the protectors, Desghidorah sank the teeth of two of his heads deep into Leo and Mothra became desperate. She quickly airlifted her son to safety, and in order to keep Desghidorah at bay, she lured the beast into a dam. With Desghidorah distracted by a wall of raging water, Mothra carried her son to safety. Unfortunately, Mothra’s wounds, age, and exhaustion were ultimately too much. Her strength failed, and she plummeted into the sea below. The crestfallen larva attempted to save his beloved mother, but she sank in the ocean, to no avail. Angered, the young moth created a cocoon and began to change into his adult form. Desghidorah had to be defeated; his mother’s death couldn’t be in vain.

Leo emerged into his adult form as a swarm of multi-colored butterflies. As the butterflies coalesced into one massive insect, Leo took to the air and headed back towards Desghidorah, righteous fury burning in his wake. Arriving in a hail of energy beams, Leo relentlessly blasted his mother’s murderer, throwing wave upon wave of searing beams and energy blasts at Desghidorah, who could only feebly attempt to defend himself against this, the most powerful Mothra of all time. Drawing upon an ancient legacy, Leo relentlessly assaulted Desghidorah, eventually renewing the seal that bound the world destroyer beneath the soil of the earth.

But his work was not done with the end of the fight. Drawing upon the power of life that filled his very being, Leo restored to balance the blasted region deforested that was during the assault of Desghidorah. His work done for the time being, Leo went to his ancestral home and planet Earth was once again safe from Desghidorah.

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Sound Military Decision – U.S. Naval War College - Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland

This book is the 1942 edition of a book originally published in 1936 by the U.S. Naval War College

The discussion in Chapter II deals, first, with the natural mental processes employed by the normal mature human being before taking deliberate action.

With the necessity for logical thought thus established, there arises a need for valid statements of cause and effect, i.e., of relationships resulting from the operation of natural laws, for use as reliable rules of action. The discussion of this subject explains the dangers inherent in the use of faulty rules, emphasizes the role played by the various factors applicable in particular cases, and describes the method of formulating reliable rules, i.e., principles.

All living beings and their surroundings are understood, on the basis of informed authority, to be governed in their characteristic activities by natural law. The natural forces inherent in living things and in their environment are continually reacting upon each other, either maintaining the existing condition or creating a new one, each of which is a situation or state of affairs. There is thus always a relationship existing between such natural forces and the resultant condition which they produce. The natural forces are causes; the resultant conditions are effects.

It is a recognized natural phenomenon that every effect is the result of a certain cause, or of a combination of causes, and that each effect is itself, in turn, the cause of additional effects. Action and reaction are the basis of natural law. Cause and effect, the latter being the cause of further effects, follow each other in ceaseless succession in the world of human affairs.

Except by putting proper natural causes into action, it is impossible to produce the effect desired. It follows that specific knowledge of causes is necessary for the planned production of specific effects. Toward the accumulation of such knowledge the methods of science are constantly directed.

The uncertainties of war are largely the outgrowth of the fact that the minds of men are pitted against one other. Because of this, a knowledge of the manner in which the human mind seeks its way out of difficulties is a great military asset. Consideration is next given, therefore, to the natural mental processes employed and to certain human tendencies which have been known to militate against their successful employment.

The mental processes employed by the normal mature human being before taking deliberate action, or in making studied provision for possible future action, are natural procedures, in that they employ the intellectual powers bestowed by nature, without artificial modification or embellishment.

When the individual concerned has a background of adequate knowledge and experience, his ability to solve problems is limited only by his native intellectual endowment. That he falls short does not necessarily indicate, however, that the limit of native endowment has been reached. It happens frequently that latent powers have not been cultivated, or have not been utilized.

A problem is, by definition, a perplexing question. In any human activity, a problem appears when a perplexity arises as to a way out of a difficulty inherent in a situation. The question involved then is, what is a way, more especially the best way, out of the seeming difficulty?

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The University of Oxford (Oxford, England), is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, dating at least to the 11c. With its rival Cambrige, it is one of the two most selective and prestigious universities in the UK. Oxford has 39 colleges, each with its own internal structure and activities. Currently, Oxford prides itself on having educated 4 British, and at least 8 foreign kings, 47 Nobel prize-winners, 3 Fields medallists, 25 British Prime Ministers, 28 foreign presidents and prime ministers, 7 saints, 86 archbishops, 18 cardinals, and 1 pope.

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Some Japanese snacks have fillings in them, such as red bean paste, green tea paste and some even ice-cream. Others are served with a special sauce.

Schweine 8 Stück

Puchigifuto seltene Tier wird in Kapseln stellen, um einen netten Geschenk Wertschätzung von Hand zu geben. Auspicious Tier, das 2 Monate Puchigifuto Lächeln betritt und der Raum ist gefüllt mit die niedlichen kleinen Luxus Puchigifuto! Best Tier 引果子 geben Sie vier Monate!

Unternehmen wie Verwandte und unser Chef, ein Geschenk an die Älteren, die die gefüllten 引果子 massive acht Monate empfehlen wird! Puchigifuto seltenen Schweine-Put on your cute Brötchen Kapsel. Osuso 分 Ke perfekt für das Glück! Pig-chan cute Glücksbringer

Schweine mit einem der die Tiere glücklich und Puchigifuto perfekte Hochzeitsgeschenk. Gebären viele Kinder von den Dingen, genug, um an den Feiern rund um die Welt verwendet werden, auch als ein Symbol für die Familie gemeinsam bekannt, bringe ich ein Tier, Reichtum und Glück.

Wenn buzz ist hervorragend 和风 Puchigifuto der Anordnung der glücklichen Tiere wie niedlich. Darüber hinaus diesen Ausdruck. Es ist in einem Lächeln Veranstaltungsort gewickelt.

Ein kleines, niedliches Lächeln und sogar ein seltenes Gastspiel Puchigifuto Umgebung Hochzeit “Glück” Tier, das bedeutet, dass wir eine Menge ist. Ich werde Geschenk, das Sie essen können, und genießen Sie mit einem Lächeln auf Ihre Gäste im gleichen Alter aus einem kleinen Puchigifuto plus ein wenig verspielt und einzigartige kulinarische Tradition mit einem Lächeln empfangen, sobald sie geboren.
Sie geben uns nicht nur ein Lächeln, ein Geschenk auch genießen Geschmack der Gäste wurden ebenfalls vorgestellt.

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幸せのおすそ分けにピッタリ！可愛い縁起物のブタちゃん
プチギフトなど結婚式の贈り物に最適な幸せを運ぶ動物の一つ・・・ぶた。 子供をたくさん産む事から、家庭円満のシンボルとも呼ばれ
世界各国でお祝い事に使われる程、富と財をもたらしてくれる動物なんです。
そんな縁起の良い動物を可愛くアレンジした和風のプチギフトなら話題性抜群です。しかもこの表情。会場は微笑みに包まれますよ。

・見た目もキュートな珍しいプチギフトにゲストも笑顔に・・
結婚式にまつわる「幸運」を意味するどうぶつ達はたくさんいますよね。
そんな、かわいい「ぶた」のお饅頭を包み込んだ新感覚の珍しいプチギフトです。
受け取った瞬間に微笑みが生まれ伝統の味にちょっとユニークな遊び心を加えたプチギフトならご年配の方から小さなゲストまで
笑顔で楽しんで召し上がっていただける贈り物になりますよ。
贈るお二人の笑顔だけでなく、贈られたゲストが目でも味でも楽しんでいただける贈り物です。

・見た目はもちろん、素材にもこだわります！
もちっとした食感の山芋生地に風味豊かなこしあん入りのおまんじゅうは自然食を目指したまさにオーガニックな和菓子といえます。
体に良い食材でもある山芋を生地に使い 贈り先様の健康も考えました。
また、厳選小豆の旨みを凝縮した繊細な甘さと 口どけが感じられるこしあんは、素材本来の味わいをお楽しみ頂けます

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3-3- 4, 4-4-3, and 5-10-5 or 5-7-5

Su-mi-re ho-do na/ chi-i-sa-ki hi-to ni/ u-ma-re-ta-shi

6 7 5

»I wish I could be born again a person as small as a violet.«

Natsume Soseki

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I look at the river.
A banana skin
Falls from my hand.

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Jean-Paul Sartre – L’être et le néant. Essai d’ontologie phénoménologique – 1943

[...] Die wesentliche Konsequenz unserer vorangehenden Ausführung ist, daß der Mensch, dazu verurteilt, frei zu sein, das Gewicht der gesamten Welt auf seinen Schultern trägt: er ist für die Welt und für sich selbst als Seinsweise verantwortlich. Wir nehmen das Wort “Verantwortlichkeit” in seinem banalen Sinn vor “Bewußtsein davon, der unbestreitbare Urheber eines Ereignisses oder eines Gegenstands zu sein” [...] , denn die schlimmsten Übel oder die schlimmsten Gefahren, die meine Person zu treffen drohen, haben nur durch meinen Entwurf einen Sinn; und sie erscheinen auf dem Grund des Engagements, das ich bin. Es ist also unsinnig, sich beklagen zu wollen, weil ja nichts Fremdes darüber entschieden hat, was wir fühlen, was wir erleben oder was wir sind. Diese absolute Verantwortlichkeit ist übrigens keine Hinnahme: sie ist das bloße logische Übernehmen der Konsequenzen unserer Freiheit. Was mir zustößt, stößt mir durch mich zu [...]

der menschliche embryo macht im mutterleibe alle entwicklungsphasen des tierreiches durch. wenn der mensch geboren wird, sind seine sinneseindrücke gleich denen eines neugeborenen hundes. seine kindheit durchläuft alle wandlungen, die der geschichte der menschheit entsprechen. mit zwei jahren sieht er wie ein papua, mit vier jahren wie ein germane, mit sechs jahren wie sokrates, mit acht jahren wie voltaire. wenn er acht jahre alt ist, kommt ihm das violett zum bewußtsein, die farbe, die das achtzehnte jahrhundert entdeckt hat, denn vorher waren das veilchen blau und die purpurschnecke rot. der physiker zeigt heute auf farben im sonnenspektrum, die bereits einen namen haben, deren erkenntnis aber dem kommenden menschen vorbehalten ist.

das kind ist amoralisch. der papua ist es für uns auch. der papua schlachtet seine feinde ab und verzehrt sie. er ist kein verbrecher. wenn aber der moderne mensch jemanden abschlachtet und verzehrt, so ist er ein verbrecher oder ein degenerierter. der papua tätowiert seine haut, sein boot, sein ruder, kurz alles, was ihm erreichbar ist. er ist kein verbrecher. der moderne mensch, der sich tätowiert, ist ein verbrecher oder ein degenerierter. es gibt gefängnisse, in denen achtzig prozent der häftlinge tätowierungen aufweisen. die tätowierten, die nicht in haft sind, sind latente verbrecher oder degenerierte aristokraten. wenn ein tätowierter in freiheit stirbt, so ist er eben einige jahre, bevor er einen mord verübt hat, gestorben. der drang, sein gesicht und alles, was einem erreichbar ist, zu ornamentieren, ist der uranfang der bildenden kunst. es ist das lallen der malerei.

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FRANZ KAFKA – BETRACHTUNG MDCCCCXIII – ERNST ROWOHLT VERLAG – LEIPZIG

Dies Buch wurde in 800 numerierten Exemplaren im November 1912 von der Offizin Poeschel & Trepte gedruckt.Copyright 1912 by Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, Leipzig.

Entschlüsse
Aus einem elenden Zustand sich zu erheben, muß selbst mit gewollter Energie leicht sein. Ich reiße mich vom Sessel los, umlaufe den Tisch, mache Kopf und Hals beweglich, bringe Feuer in die Augen, spanne die Muskeln um sie herum. Arbeite jedem Gefühl entgegen, begrüße A. stürmisch, wenn er jetzt kommen wird, dulde B. freundlich in meinem Zimmer, ziehe bei C. alles, was gesagt wird, trotz Schmerz und Mühe mit langen Zügen in mich hinein.

Aber selbst wenn es so geht, wird mit jedem Fehler, der nicht ausbleiben kann, das Ganze, das Leichte und das Schwere, stocken, und ich werde mich im Kreise zurückdrehen müssen. Deshalb bleibt doch der beste Rat, alles hinzunehmen, als schwere Masse sich verhalten und fühle man sich selbst fortgeblasen, keinen unnötigen Schritt sich ablocken lassen, den anderen mit Tierblick anschaun, keine Reue fühlen, kurz, das, was vom Leben als Gespenst noch übrig ist, mit eigener Hand niederdrücken, d. h., die letzte grabmäßige Ruhe noch vermehren und nichts außer ihr mehr bestehen lassen. Eine charakteristische Bewegung eines solchen Zustandes ist das Hinfahren des kleinen Fingers über die Augenbrauen.

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by Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated by Constance Bache

To Princess Christine Belgiojoso in Paris

It would be self-conceit in me, Princess, to complain of your silence. Your letters have always been for me a favor, a charm. I am not meaning to say that I have the slightest right to them. Nevertheless, as you do not reply to me any more, I hope you will at least permit me to tell you how very much I feel the very slightest marks of your kindness, and what a price I set upon your remembrance.

Some numbers of the Gazette or Revue Musicale, which have accidentally fallen into my hands at the house of one of my Russian friends (for in this happy country of the Arts, and of music in particular, you can well imagine that no one is foolish enough to spend a thirty francs’ subscription on the Revue Musicale), have informed me that you had decidedly raised altar for altar, and made your charming salon echo with magnificent harmonies. I confess that this is perhaps the one regret of my winter. I should so immensely have liked to be there to admire you, to applaud you. Several people who had the honor of being present at these choice evenings have spoken to me about them with enthusiasm.

What a contrast to the tiresome musical soliloquies (I do not know what other name to give to this invention of mine) with which I contrived to gratify the Romans, and which I am quite capable of importing to Paris, so unbounded does my impudence become! Imagine that, wearied with warfare, not being able to compose a programme which would have common sense, I have ventured to give a series of concerts all by myself, affecting the Louis XIV. style, and saying cavalierly to the public, “The concert is–myself.” For the curiosity of the thing I copy one of the programmes of the soliloquies for you:–

1. Overture to William Tell, performed by M. L.

2. Reminiscences of the Puritani. Fantaisie composed and performed by the above-mentioned!

3. Etudes and fragments by the same to the same!

4. Improvisation on themes given–still by the same. And that was all; neither more nor less, except lively conversation during the intervals, and enthusiasm if there was room for it.

A propos of enthusiasm, I ought at least to talk to you of St. Peter’s. That is the proper thing to do when one writes from Rome. But, in the first place, I am writing to you from Albano, whence I can only discern the dome, and, secondly, this poor St. Peter’s has been so disguised, so embellished by papier-mache wreaths, horrid curtains at alcoves, etc., etc., all in honor of the five or six last saints whom His Holiness has canonised, that I try to put away the recollection of it. Happily there have not been any workers of miracles to glorify at the Coliseum and the Campo Vaccino, otherwise it would have been impossible to live in Rome.

If nothing occurs to prevent it, I expect to pass the end of next winter (March and April) in Paris. Will you permit me then to fill up all the gaps in my correspondence from the Rue d’Anjou? [Here the Princess lived.] I count always upon your friendly and indulgent kindness. But shall you extend this so far as to give me a sign of life before the close of my stay in Italy? I do not know. In any case, letters addressed poste restante, Florence, will reach me till the 1st of next September.

I beg you, Madame la Princesse, to accept the expression of my profound and most devoted respect.

F. Liszt – Albano, June 4th, 1839

Will you be good enough to remember me affectionately to (Madame) your sister and to Mr. d´Aragon?

via: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/1lofl10.txt

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Fotografien vom Alltag – Fotografieren als Alltag – Ulrich Hägele

Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o’clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.

Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town. All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their complexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside.

When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third-class carriages found themselves opposite each other. Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation. If they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third-class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.

One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, with black curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes. His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical—it might almost be called a malicious—smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face. A special feature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave to the whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a sort of passionate and suffering expression which did not harmonize with his impudent, sarcastic smile and keen, self-satisfied bearing. He wore a large fur—or rather astrachan—overcoat, which had kept him warm all night, while his neighbour had been obliged to bear the full severity of a Russian November night entirely unprepared. His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it—the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Switzerland or North Italy—was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.

The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an intent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity as well as evidence, of an epileptic subject. His face was decidedly a pleasant one for all that; refined, but quite colourless, except for the circumstance that at this moment it was blue with cold. He held a bundle made up of an old faded silk handkerchief that apparently contained all his travelling wardrobe, and wore thick shoes and gaiters, his whole appearance being very un-Russian.

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The String Theory predicts the existence of more than the 3 space dimensions and 1 time dimension we are all familiar with. According to string theory, there are additional dimensions that we are unfamiliar with because they are curled up into tiny complicated shapes that can only be seen on tiny scales. If we could shrink to this tiny, Planck-sized scale we could see that at every 3D point in space, we can also explore 6 additional dimensions. This visualisation shows a Calabi-Yau surface which is a projection of these higher dimensions into the more familiar dimensions we are aware of.

Visualization by Jeff Bryant and based on concepts from A.J. Hanson.

A.J. Hanson, “A Construction for Computer Visualization of Certain Complex Curves,” in “Computers and Mathematics” column, ed. Keith Devlin, of Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 41, No. 9, pp. 1156–1163 (American Math. Soc., Providence, November/December, 1994).

via: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hanson/

Prof. A. Piccard und Ingenieur P. Kipfer durch das Mannloch einer Ballonkapsel aufgenommen

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