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It is also the last he is known to have written.
Lincoln's sources
In Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills notes the similarity between Lincoln's speech and Pericles's Funeral Oration during the Peloponnesian War (James McPherson and Gore Vidal also note this).
Pericles' speech begins with remembering honored people: "I shall begin with our ancestors: it is both just and proper that they should have the honour of the first mention on an occasion like the present".
This is very much like the Gettysburg Address's famous beginning.
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln had begun by speaking of how "our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation".
He then praises their State's firm democracy: "If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all".
He honors the dead's sacrifice: "Thus choosing to die resisting, rather than to live submitting, they fled only from dishonour, but met danger face to face".
He also warmly encourages the living to continue to fight for true democracy: "You, their survivors, must determine to have as unfaltering a resolution in the field, though you may pray that it may have a happier issue".
But writer Adam Gopnik felt differently.
In The New Yorker, he said that Everett's Oration was openly neoclassical.
For example, Everett spoke directly about Marathon and Pericles.
But he said that "Lincoln’s rhetoric is, instead, deliberately Biblical".
He added that it is hard to find any obviously classical references in all of his speeches.
Gopnik felt that "Lincoln had mastered the sound of the King James Bible so completely that he could recast (make again) abstract issues of constitutional law in Biblical terms (words from the Bible), making the proposition (suggestion) that Texas and New Hampshire should be forever bound by a single post office sound like something right out of Genesis".
There are many theories about where Lincoln's expression of "government of the people, by the people, for the people" came from.
In The American Monthly Review of Reviews, it is suggested that the writings of William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, much influenced Lincoln.
William Herndon wrote in Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of A Great Life that he had brought some of the sermons of abolitionist minister Theodore Parker to Lincoln, who had been moved by them.
Craig R. Smith, In "Criticism of Political Rhetoric and Disciplinary Integrity", suggested that the Gettysburg Address was influenced by the speech of Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster.
In his "Second Reply to Hayne", Webster had famously cried out, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable"!
In this 1830 speech, Webster had also described the Federal Government as "made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people".
This expression was very similar to Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, for the people."
Webster also said, "This  the independent offspring of the popular will.
It is not the creature of State  the whole truth must be told, the people brought it into existence, established it, and have hitherto (until now) supported it, for the very purpose, amongst others, of imposing certain salutary restraints on State sovereignties".
Wills was interested in how Lincoln used the ideas of birth, life, and death.
Lincoln had described the nation as "brought forth", "conceived", and that shall not "perish".
Others, such as Allen C. Guelzo, suggested that Lincoln's expression "four score and seven" was about the King James Version of the Bible's .
There, man's life is described as "threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years".
Five manuscripts
Each of the five manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address are named for the person who received it from Lincoln.
Lincoln gave a copy to each of his private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay.
Both were written around the time of his November 19 address.
The other three copies of the address (the Everett, Bancroft, and Bliss copies) were written a long time after November 19.
They were written by Lincoln for charitable purposes.
The Bliss copy has become the most widely accepted text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
This is partly because Lincoln gave it a title and signed and dated it.
There has been some controversy about the two earliest drafts of the Address.
Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, made Nicolay and Hay the legal guardians of Lincoln's papers in 1874.
The Nicolay Copy appeared as a copy in an article written by Nicolay in 1894.
After that, it was thought to be among the papers passed to Hay by Nicolay's daughter Helen when Nicolay died in 1901.
Robert Lincoln began a search for the first copy in 1908.
He discovered a handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address among the papers of John Hay—a copy now known as the "Hay Draft".
The Hay Draft was different from the Gettysburg Address printed by Nicolay in 1894 in many important ways.
For example, it was written on a different kind of paper, had a different number of words on every line, had a different number of lines, and had corrections in Lincoln's handwriting.
Both the Hay and Nicolay copies of the Address are inside the Library of Congress.
They are inside specially designed, temperature-controlled, sealed containers with argon gas.
This is to protect the documents from oxidation.
Nicolay Copy
The Nicolay Copy is often called the "first draft".
This is because it is thought to be the earliest copy that exists.
Scholars are not sure if the Nicolay Copy was actually the copy Lincoln read from at Gettysburg on November 19.
In an 1894 article, Nicolay wrote that Lincoln had brought to Gettysburg the first part of the speech written in ink.
Nicolay also said that Lincoln had written the second page in pencil on lined paper before November 19.
Matching folds can still be seen on the two pages, suggesting it could be the copy that eyewitnesses say Lincoln took from his coat pocket and read at the ceremony.
But some of the words and expressions in the Nicolay Copy do not match modern transcriptions of Lincoln's speech.
Because of this, some people believe that the text used at Gettysburg has been lost.
The words "under God", for example, are missing in this copy from the phrase "that this nation (under God) shall have a new birth of freedom..." If the Nicolay draft was the copy Lincoln read from, either the modern transcriptions are not correct, or Lincoln spoke differently from his written text several times.
John Nicolay kept this copy of the Gettysburg Address until he died in 1901.
When he died, it was passed on to his friend John Hay.
It is on permanent display as part of the American Treasures exhibition of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Hay Copy
In 1906, it was first announced that the Hay Copy had been discovered.
It had been found among the papers of John Hay when people were searching for the "original manuscript" of the Address.
There are some important differences from the copy of the Address described by John Hay in his article.
There are many important words taken out and added by Lincoln's own handwriting, which often changed the basic meaning of the sentence.
In this copy, like in the Nicolay Copy, the words "under God" are not there.
This version has been described as "the most inexplicable" of the drafts.
It is sometimes referred to as the "second draft".
The "Hay Copy" was probably made on the morning of the delivery of the Address.
It could also have been made shortly after Lincoln came back to Washington.
The people who believe it was completed on the morning of his address note that it has some expressions that are not in the first draft but are in the reports of the address and in later copies by Lincoln.
It is likely, they say, that Lincoln used this copy when he delivered the address.
Lincoln later gave this copy to his other secretary, John Hay.
Hay's descendants gave it and the Nicolay Copy to the Library of Congress in 1916.
Everett Copy
The Everett Copy is also known as the "Everett-Keyes Copy".
It was sent by President Lincoln to Edward Everett in early 1864.
Everett, who was collecting the speeches at the Gettysburg dedication into one book to sell for hurt soldiers at New York's Sanitary Commission Fair, had asked for it.
The Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield, Illinois has it on display.
It is in the Treasures Gallery of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
Bancroft Copy
The Bancroft Copy of the Gettysburg Address was written by President Lincoln in February 1864.
The famous historian George Bancroft, the "father of American History", who wrote History of the United States, had asked him to write it for him.
Bancroft wanted to put this copy in Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors and sell it at a Soldiers' and Sailors' Sanitary Fair in Baltimore.
But Lincoln wrote on both sides of the paper, so he could not use it for this purpose.
Therefore, Bancroft was allowed to keep it.
This copy was kept by the Bancroft family for many years.
Then, it was sold to different dealers and bought by Nicholas and Marguerite Lilly Notes.
They donated it to Cornell in 1949.
It is now kept by the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University.
Among the five copies, it is the only one to be privately owned.
Bliss Copy
When Lincoln found that his fourth written copy could not be used, he wrote a fifth copy.
The Bliss Copy was named for Colonel Alexander Bliss, Bancroft's stepson.
It is not known if Lincoln made any more copies.
Lincoln wrote this copy with much care.
He gave it a title—"Address delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg"—and signed and dated this copy.
In fact, it was the only copy of the Gettysburg Address he signed.
Partly because of this, it has become the most well-known version of the Gettysburg Address.
It is the source of most modern copies of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Today, this copy hangs in the Lincoln Room of the White House.
It is a present from Oscar B. Cintas, who used to be a Cuban Ambassador to the United States.
Cintas liked to collect art and manuscripts.
He had bought the Bliss Copy for $54,000 at a public auction in 1949.
It "set a new high record for the sale of a document at public auction".
The Castro government claimed Cintas' properties after it became powerful in 1959.
But Cintas, who died in 1957, had willed the Gettysburg Address to the American people, if it would be kept at the White House.
It was moved there in 1959, and is still there today.
Another source of the Gettysburg Address is the copy from the Associated Press.
It was copied from the notes taken by reporter Joseph L. Gilbert.
It is different from the drafted words in a few ways.
Contemporary sources and reaction
Eyewitnesses reports about Lincoln's performance are various.
In 1931, 87-year-old Mrs. Sarah A. Cooke Myers suggested that there was a dignified silence after Lincoln finished his speech.
She had been there when she was 19 years old. "
I was close to the President and heard all of the Address, but it seemed short.
Then there was an impressive silence like our Menallen Friends Meeting.
There was no applause when he stopped speaking".
Historian Shelby Foote said that the applause, which came after a long time, was "barely polite".
But the governor of Pennsylvania, Curtin, said, "He pronounced (said) that speech in a voice that all the multitude (people) heard.
The crowd was hushed into silence because the President stood before  was so Impressive!
It was the common remark of everybody.
Such a speech, as they said it was!"
There is a story that Lincoln turned to his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon and said that his speech "won't scour (wouldn't be successful)".
Garry Wills argued that this story was not true.
He said that Lamon was the only person who remembered this remark, and that it was not reliable.
Garry Wills felt that Lincoln had done what he wanted to do at Gettysburg.
The following day, Everett wrote a letter to Lincoln.
In the letter, he praised the President for his speech, saying, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central (main) idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes".
Lincoln replied that he was glad the speech was not a "total complete failure".
Other public reaction to the speech was different according to each party.
The Democratic Chicago Times said, "The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances (remarks) of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States".
However, the Republican New York Times praised the speech.
The Springfield, MA.
Republican newspaper printed the entire speech, calling it "a perfect gem" that was "deep in feeling, compact (simple) in thought and expression, and tasteful and elegant in every word and comma".
The Republican said that Lincoln's short remarks would "repay further study as the model speech".
Audio memories
William R. Rathvon is the only known eyewitness of the Gettysburg Address to have left an audio recording of what he remembered.
One year before he died in 1939, Rathvon's remarks were recorded on February 12, 1938.
It included his reading the address itself.
The title of the record was "I Heard Lincoln That Day - William R. Rathvon, TR Productions".
The National Public Radio (NPR) discovered a copy during a "Quest for Sound" project in 1999.
NPR allows people to hear the record around Lincoln's birthday.
The only known and confirmed photograph of Lincoln at Gettysburg was taken by David Bachrach.
It was identified in the Mathew Brady collection of photographic plates in 1952.
Lincoln's speech was short, but he and others sat for hours during the rest of the program.
Because Everett's speech was very long, and because it took a long time for 19th century photographers to prepare for taking a picture, it is likely that photographers were not prepared for how short Lincoln's speech was.
In 2006, John Richter identified two more photographs in the Library of Congress collection.
"Under God"
The Nicolay and Hay copies do not have the words "under God", but they appear in the three later copies (Everett, Bancroft, and Bliss).
So, some skeptics suggest that Lincoln did not say "under God" at Gettysburg.
Yet at least three reporters telegraphed the words of the Gettysburg Address with the words "under God" included.
Historian William E. Barton says:
"Every stenographic report, good, bad and indifferent poor, says 'that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom.'
There was no common source from which all the reporters could have obtained those words but from Lincoln's own lips at the time of delivery.
It will not do to say that [Secretary of War] Stanton suggested those words after Lincoln's return to Washington, for the words were telegraphed by at least three reporters on the afternoon of the delivery".
The reporters who were there at that time included Joseph Gilbert, Charles Hale, John R. Young.
There were also reporters from the Cincinnati Commercial, New York Tribune, and New York Times.
Charles Hale "had notebook and pencil in hand, [and] took down the slow-spoken words of the President". "
He took down what he declared was the exact language of Lincoln's  associates confirmed his testimony, which was received, as it deserved to be at its face value".
Lincoln probably spoke differently from what he had prepared and added the expression when he was speaking.
The Gettysburg Address's importance in the history of the United States can be seen by the long time it has been a part of American culture.
Popular works often refer to the Gettysburg Address as if expecting that the audience will know Lincoln's words.
Many years have passed after the Address was delivered, but it is still one of the most famous speeches in American history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech of "I Have a Dream" spoke of the Gettysburg Address.
In August 1963, King spoke of President Lincoln and his well-known words: "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
came as a  of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames ".
The Constitution of France spoke of France as a "gouvernement du peuple, par le peuple et pour le peuple" ("government of the people, by the people, and for the people").
This was a direct translation of Lincoln's words.
The address has become a part of American tradition.
It is studied in schools and warmly praised by writers.
The Gettysburg Address shows an important interpretation of the Declaration of Independence that is still remembered and used.
It is widely accepted as one of the most important documents in U.S. history, together with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
To this day, it is one of the most famous, beloved, and most quoted of modern speeches.
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The Gettysburg Address recited by Sam Waterston, Matthew Broderick, Ken Burns, David McCullough, Stephen Lang, Medal of Honor recipient Paul W. Bucha.
Music by Oscar©-winning composer John Williams.
1863 in Pennsylvania
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (born Pamiers, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, May 12, 1845; died Paris, November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and music teacher.
He was the most important French composer of his time.
The way he wrote music, especially his harmonies, had a big influence on many 20th century composers.
Most French composers at the time became famous by writing operas, but Faure only wrote one opera.
His most important works are his French songs, chamber music and piano music.
His Requiem (which includes a solo, Pie Jesu, for a treble singer or soprano) is one of the most popular of all requiems and can be performed with quite a small orchestra and choir.
Other very popular pieces are his Berçeuse from the Dolly Suite for piano duet, the Sicilienne from the music for Pelléas et Mélisande, and the song Après un rêve which is sometimes also played by a solo instrument, e.g. the cello.
Fauré came from the south of France.
He was born into a large family and was sent to live with a foster-nurse for four years.
When he was quite small he often played the harmonium at the small chapel attached to the school where his father was director.
A blind lady heard him and told his father that he ought to send him to a good music school.
His father did not want to at first, but when the boy was nine he was sent to study at the École Niedermeyer in Paris.
This was a school which trained young people to become church organists and choir directors.
He spent eleven years there and had a good musical education.
One of his teachers was the great composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
At first he held several jobs in churches, playing and accompanying the choirs.
During the Franco-Prussian War Faure served in the army and did some teaching.
When he returned to Paris in October of 1871 he got the job of choir accompanist at a big church in Paris called Saint-Sulpice.
He often met up with Saint-Saëns and his friends who included the composers Lalo, Duparc, d’Indy and Chabrier.
Several of these musicians, including Fauré himself, formed a music society called Société Nationale de Musique in 1871.
In 1874 Saint-Saëns retired from the church called the Madeleine and Fauré became choirmaster.
In the same year he became engaged to Marianne Viardot, daughter of the singer Pauline, but then Marianne broke off the engagement.
He travelled to Weimar to hear Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Fauré liked Wagner’s music but it did not influence him.
In 1883 Fauré married Marie Fremiet.
He had to spent a lot of time earning money by teaching to keep his family and so he did not have much time to compose except during the summer.
His publishers did not pay him much money for his compositions.
In 1892 he became inspector of the music conservatories in the French provinces, which meant he no longer had to teach amateur students.
In 1896 he finally became chief organist at the Église de la Madeleine.
He also became professor of composition at Paris Conservatoire.
Here he taught several students who became important French composers, including Maurice Ravel, Nadia Boulanger and Charles Koechlin.
In 1905 he became director of the conservatoire.
As he became older he became deaf.
High and low pitches sounded muddled to him.
He retired from the Conservatoire in 1920 at the age of 75.
In that year he received the Grand Cross of the Légion d’Honneur.
It was unusual for a musician to have such a high honour.
His health became poor, partly because he smoked heavily.
He died in Paris from pneumonia in 1924 and was given a state funeral.
Gabriel Fauré is the greatest composer of French art song, or mélodie.
He learned a great deal at the École Niedermeyer about how to write beautiful, flowing harmonies.
He also studied the church modes.
This can be heard in a lot of his music.
He wrote several song cycles (groups of songs) including one called La Bonne Chanson.
Fauré's piano works are mostly short works such as barcarolles, nocturnes and impromptus.
They are often full of arpeggiated figures with the melody going from one hand to the other.
His chamber works include piano quartets and quintets, a string quartet, a piano trio, two sonatas for violin and piano and two for cello and piano.
His Élégie for cello and piano is especially well-known.
He never showed a great deal of interest in writing for the orchestra.
His orchestral works mostly consist of incidental music.
His Requiem is popular both with amateur and professional choirs.
French organists
A music critic is someone who writes about concerts that have taken place or new music that has been written.
They write reviews about this in newspapers or journals.
What they write is called musical criticism.
When people write about the history of music or compare musical styles, this is called musicology.
Musical criticism is about what is going on in the musical world at the moment.
Music critics can have a lot of influence on a musician’s success.
If a musician gets a bad review people may not bother to go and hear him.
If he has a very good review people will think he must be good and they will all want to hear him.
Occasionally it can happen that a new piece of music has such a terrible review that everyone wants to go and hear how terrible it is.
They may then find that they like it and the music might become famous.
This is called a “succès de scandale” (French for “scandalous success”).
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (1913) is a good example.
Example of music critics
Music critics will spend a lot of time listening to music.
They often do other jobs with music such as teaching.
Some famous music critics include:
The German composer Robert Schumann.
He published a music journal called Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
He wrote an article which has become famous called Neue Bahnen (New Paths) in which he said that there was a young man called Johannes Brahms who would become a great composer.
Schumann was right.
The French composer Hector Berlioz was a good music critic.
He wrote a lot of music reviews in order to earn some money.
The Austrian musicologist Eduard Hanslick.
He became famous for saying that Johannes Brahms was a good composer and Wagner, Liszt and Bruckner were bad composers.
The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
He wrote some interesting musical criticisms using the pseudonym (made-up name) Corno di Bassetto.
There were some musicians he did not like and he said so.
This made him quite a few enemies.
International Federation of Music Journalists - an international group of media professionals who treat any aspect of music on any media.
Publishes the "Directory of Music Journalists" and confers "Music Journalist Award".
Music Media Directory - an international publication with over 40.000 contacts of music journalists and music media.
Peter Press Maravich (June 22, 1947 - January 5, 1988), also known as "Pistol Pete" Maravich, was an American basketball player.
He played for Lousisana State University and averaged 44.2 points per game.
That is the highest average ever in the history of college basketball.
Then Maravich played for ten seasons in the NBA.
He played for the Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz, Utah Jazz, and the Boston Celtics.
He once scored 68 points in an NBA game against the New York Knicks.
He was known for his great dribbling, passing and shooting abilities.
Maravich died from a heart attack on January 5, 1988.
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Batman was born in Rosehill, Parramatta (part of Sydney), and spent time in Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land).
In Tasmania he started farming on land the government gave him.
He brought more land.
During this time, he was involved in conflicts with the Tasmanian Aborigines.
Batman asked to be given land in the Westernport area of Victoria, but the government rejected him.
So, in 1835, as a leading member of the Port Phillip Association he sailed for the mainland of Australia in the schooner Rebecca and explored much of Port Phillip Bay.
Batman made an agreement, now known as Batman's Treaty, with some local Aborigines to rent their land in return for things like knives and flour every year.
Probably the Wurundjeri people did not understand the agreement.
In any case, the Governor of New South Wales said the agreement was not legal the land was owned by the Government rather than the Aborigines.
Batman became very unhealthy after 1835, and he separated from his wife, convict Elizabeth Callaghan.
His son drowned in the Yarra River.
In his last months the local Aborigines looked after him.
Batman is remembered by some statues around Melbourne, and is buried in the Fawkner Cemetery, a cemetery named after his fellow colonist John Pascoe Fawkner.
There is also a memorial in the Old Melbourne Cemetery.
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Batmania: a fun way to explore the people and events surrounding the foundation of Melbourne, images of the Batman Land Deed and other historical documents  at the National Museum of Australia.
A Pictorial History of Bushrangers, Prior, Wannan and Nunn, 1968, Paul Hamlyn Pty Ltd, Melbourne
1839 deaths
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Royal Leamington Spa (or Leamington Spa) is a town in Warwickshire, UK.
In 2001 it had a population of 45,300.
Until 1784 it was not a town but a village.
It was in this year that two local men called Benjamin Satchwell and William Abbott discovered a spring in the village.
The two men, and others from the town, began to use the water for treatment of illnesses, which was a common practice in those times.
The town quickly developed into a spa town with many rich people visiting to 'take the waters'.
Because of this the town grew quickly.
The town soon became famous and a popular holiday resort.
When spa water stopped being fashionable fewer people came on holiday to the town, but rich people still went to live there when they were old.
In modern times Leamington does not treat many people with the water but it is still known as a pleasant place to live.
It is also popular for shopping.
The town is built by a river called the River Leam which flows through the middle of the town from east to west.
The town is now connected to another town called Warwick.
Other nearby settlements include Kenilworth (about six miles away), Rugby (about sixteen miles away) and Coventry (about ten miles away).
The Parade (main street) and surrounding streets feature large Regency town houses which are normally white coloured, vertical sliding windows and high ceilings.
Most of the buildings in the centre are protected by the government from being changed or replaced.
Royal Towns in the United Kingdom
Violence is when someone attacks someone else, often to get them to do something they do not want to do by making them feel pain or fear.
Violence can mean anything from one person hitting another to a war between many countries that causes millions of deaths.
Different people may see different acts as violent.
Laws are created often to control violence.
Types of violence
verbal: insults, name calling or anything that hurts another's feelings.
physical: fighting, killing, or hurting another;
sexual: when a person makes someone else subject to sexual actions they do not want; e.g. rape
symbolic: acts done to show you are against a leader or group whose ideas one opposes;
racial: when a victim of a violent act is chosen because of his or her race or nationality.
The River Pegnitz in Germany
Pegnitz, a city in Germany
Tap (valve), an object that controls the release of a liquid or gas
Telephone tapping, listening to someone else's phone conversations with a device
Tapping, a way to play stringed instruments
"Taps", a song played in the U.S. military during flag ceremonies and funerals
Tap (film), 1989 movie starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr
Tap water, water that comes out of a sink
TAP (for more meanings when the word is in all capital letters)
The Pegnitz has its source in the city of the same name at an altitude of 425 m and meets the Rednitz at 283 m northwest of Fürth.
Affluences
Högenbach (creek) (left affluence from the Pommelsbrunn direction)
Röthenbach (creek)
Cities on the Pegnitz
Neuhaus on the Pegnitz
Hersbruck
Lauf an der Pegnitz
Röthenbach an der Pegnitz
Nuremberg: Within city limits (about 14 km), the river forms secondary arms.
Numerous bridges and footbridges cross the river, such as the iron suspension bridge Kettensteg, dating from 1824.
To the west of the Maxbrücke there is a weir.
After the big flood in February 1909 the river was shortened by four kilometers within the Nuremberg city limits.
Since 1996 planning and actions are progressing trying to lengthen the course of the river between Nuremberg and Fürth again and to shape it in a nature-oriented way.
http://www.bayern.de/wwa-n/stadtamfluss.htm - Wasserwirtschaftsamt Nürnberg: "Die Umgestaltung der Pegnitz in Nürnberg" (in German)
Palaemon was a minor Greek sea god.
He was originally named Melikertes, son of Ino (Leukothea).
He was made a god when his mother, Ino,  jumped off of a cliff into the sea while holding him.
Legends say that she was trying to get away from Athanas who was made insane by Hera.
Many people think that The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years is his masterpiece.
Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
Wordsworth was born as second of five children in the Lake District.
After the death of his mother in 1778, his father sent him to Hawkshead Grammar School.
In 1783 his father, a lawyer and a solicitor, died.
Although many aspects of his boyhood were positive, he remembered times of loneliness and anxiety.
It took him many years, and much writing, to recover from the death of his parents.
Wordsworth went to St John's College, Cambridge in 1787.
Three years later, in 1790, he visited Revolutionary France and supported the Republican movement, although the Reign of Terror later made him change his mind.(see Prelude book 10) The following year, he graduated from Cambridge.
Relationship with Annette Vallon
In November 1791, Wordsworth returned to France and took a walking tour of Europe that included the Alps and Italy.
He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their child, Caroline.
Because he was poor and there were tensions between Britain and France, he returned alone to England the next year.
But he supported Annette Vallon and his daughter as best he could in later life.
War between France and Britain prevented him from seeing Annette and Caroline again for several years.
It is likely that Wordsworth would have been depressed during the 1790s.
First publication and Lyrical Ballads
In 1793 Wordsworth published the poetry collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
In 1795 he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset.
In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, moved to Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey.
Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), an important work in the English Romantic movement.
The  to Lyrical Ballads is considered a central work of Romantic literary theory.
In it, Wordsworth discusses what he sees as the elements of a new type of poetry, one based on the "real language of men" and which avoids the poetic diction of much eighteenth-century poetry.
Here, Wordsworth also gives his famous definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility."
A fourth and final edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in 1805.
He wrote a poem about daffodils and the Lake District.
Germany and move to the Lake District
Wordsworth, Dorothy, and Coleridge then traveled to Germany in the autumn of 1798.
The main effect on Wordsworth was that he became homesick.
But he began to work on the important autobiographical piece The Prelude.
He also wrote a number of famous poems, including "the Lucy poems."
He and his sister moved back to England, now to Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District, and this time with the poet Robert Southey nearby.
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey came to be known as the "Lake Poets".
Through this period, many of his poems speak of death, endurance, separation, and grief.
In 1802 he married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson.
Dorothy continued to live with the couple.
In 1807, his Poems in Two Volumes were published, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood".
Two of his children, Thomas and Catherine, died in 1812.
In 1813 his family, including Dorothy, moved to Rydal Mount, Ambleside , where he spent the rest of his life.
Major works
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798)
Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (1800)
Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
The Excursion (1814)
Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822)
The Prelude (1850, posthumous)
General information and biographical sketches
Short biographical sketch by Glenn Everett
Worsworth's links with Claines, Worcester
Wordsworth and the Lake District
Wordsworth's Grave
A Wordsworth FAQ by Thomas C. Gannon
Biography and Works
The Wordsworth Trust
Romantic Circles -- Excellent Editions & Articles on Wordsworth and other Authors of the Romantic period
Wordsworth's works
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Bartleby.com's complete poetical works by Wordsworth
Selected Poems by W.Wordsworth
Poetry Archive: 166 poems of William Wordsworth
To Toussaint Louverture - poem by William Wordsworth
Extensive Information on Wordsworth's Poem,  Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
People from Cumbria
The Short Parliament in English history lasted from April 13 to May 5 1640.
It is called "Short" because it only lasted for three weeks.
Charles I of England, who was also king of Scotland, was having problems with the Church of Scotland and war with them was breaking out again.
Charles had spent the last 11 years ruling directly, without calling a Parliament even once.
He did this because he had little use for elected representatives trying to decide policy.
But now with the problems with the Scots, Charles needed money to pay for his war.
To get more money for war meant he had to call a Parliament so they could vote on it.
The problem was that the members of Parliament were unhappy about the things he had done since 1629, when he was ruling without them.
They wanted to talk about these things instead of giving the king his money.
John Pym, member for Tavistock, gave fiery speeches refusing to give money unless the abuses were talked about.
Charles responded by closing the Parliament and sending them home again, and he tried to fight the Scots without the money.
But when this did not work and as a result of his defeat had to agree to pay the Scots, he was forced to call Parliament again.
This became known as the Long Parliament, and the Constitutional crisis that followed led to the bloody English Civil War.
He is a former Brazilian football player.
Pelé is the most successful league goal scorer in the world, with 678 league goals.
In total Pelé scored 1283 goals in 1363 games, including unofficial friendlies and tour games, for which he was listed in the Guinness World Records for most career goals scored in the history of football.
He was given the title "Football Player of the Century" by FIFA.
Many believe that he is the best player in the history of football.
From 1956 to 1974 he played for Santos, had 605 appearances, and scored 589 goals.
From 1975 to 1977 he played for New York Cosmos, when he had 64 appearances, and scored 37 goals.
Then from 1978 to 1980 he played for XI Classic till he retired p
|1971||rowspan="4"|Santos||rowspan="4"|Série A||21||1
|1972||16||5
|1973||30||19
|1974||17||9
|1975||rowspan="3"|New York Cosmos||rowspan="3"|NASL||9||5
|1976||22||13
|1977||25||13
|1957||2||2
|1958||7||9
|1959||9||11
|1960||6||4
|1961||0||0
|1962||8||8
|1963||7||7
|1964||3||2
|1965||8||9
|1966||9||5
|1968||7||4
|1969||9||7
|1970||15||8
|1971||2||1
Total||92||77
In September 2021, Pelé had surgery to remove a tumour on the right side of his colon.
He began chemotherapy treatment a few weeks later.
Santos (Official Tournaments)
Campeonato Paulista: 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1973
Torneio Rio-São Paulo: 1959, 1963 and 1964
Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (Taça de Prata): 1968
Taça Brasil: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965
Copa Libertadores: 1962 and 1963
Intercontinental Cup: 1962 and 1963
South-American Recopa: 1968
Recopa Intercontinental: 1968
NASL Champions: 1977
Roca Cup:
Winner (2): 1957, 1963
FIFA World Cup:
Winner (3): 1958, 1962, 1970
Appearances (4): 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970
1958 FIFA World Cup players
1962 FIFA World Cup players
Brazilian footballers
A rain shadow is an area of land that lies behind a mountain which gets almost no rainfall.
This side of a mountainous area is away from the wind.
The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.
As shown by the diagram to the right, the incoming warm and moist air is drawn by the prevailing winds towards the top of the mountains.
As it does so, it cools, condenses and rain falls before it crosses the top.
The air, without much moisture left, goes on over the mountains creating a dry side called the "rain shadow".
A lesson in school is a planned period of time for learning.
It involves one or more students being taught by a teacher.
A lesson may be either one section of a textbook or a short period of time during which learners are taught about a subject or taught how to perform an activity.
Lessons are generally taught in a classroom but may instead take place in a situated learning environment.
Also, a lesson also means a learner learning something he did not know before.
Such a lesson can be either planned or accidental, enjoyable or painful.
The slang phrase "to teach someone a lesson", means to punish or scold a person for a mistake they have made making sure that he does not make the same mistake again.
When the term education is combined with entertainment, it is called "edutainment".
He plays in attack, preferably in right-wing.
He is considered as one of the fastest skating players of the sport.
He wears number 81 on his jersey.
After the 2007-2008 season when his team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, lost to the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup he switched teams to the Detroit Red Wings because he felt he had a better chance of winning the Stanley Cup with them.
When the Penguins again met the Red Wings in the Stanley Cup after the 2008-2009 season, Hossa was once again on the losing team as the Penguins won in 7 games.
After losing two straight Stanley Cup finals with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings, He finally won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010.
On June 24, 2013, He won his second Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.
All-Star Games
Atlanta Thrashers players
Detroit Red Wings players
Ottawa Senators players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Portland Winterhawks players
Slovak ice hockey players
Memorial Cup winners
Swedish Hockey League players
Fashion is the form of clothing, accessories, and furniture.
It can be used by everyone.
It is related to culture, For example, we have warm clothes in the Swedish fashion and we have thin clothes in the African fashion.
The Good Life (1971 TV series), American sitcom
The Good Life (1975 TV series), British sitcom
The Good Life (1994 TV series), American sitcom
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South West England is one of the regions of England.
It has the largest area of all regions, and reaches from Gloucestershire and Wiltshire to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
This includes the area often known as the West Country, and much of Wessex.
The size of the region is shown by the fact that the northern part of Gloucestershire, near Chipping Campden, is as close to the Scottish border as it is to the tip of Cornwall.
Agriculture and tourism are the important industries of the region.
Mining of tin and copper was also formerly very important in Devon and Cornwall.
Traditionally, the South West of England has been well known for producing Cheddar cheese, named after Cheddar, Somerset in the Mendip Hills, for Devon cream teas, and for Somerset cider.
It is now probably equally well known as the home of the Eden Project (in Cornwall), Aardman Animations, the Glastonbury festival (in Somerset), trip hop music, Cornwall's seafood restaurants, and surfing beaches.
Two National Parks (Dartmoor and Exmoor) and four World Heritage Sites lie in this region.
Government Office for the South West
South West Regional Assembly
South West Regional Development Agency
Government's list of councils in the South West
Campaign for a Cornish Assembly
Attractions South West
Cornwall:
Devon:
Dorset:
Somerset:
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England.
It was created in 1994.
It includes Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.
Its population as of the 2001 census was 8,000,550, making it the most populous English region.
The highest point is Walbury Hill in Berkshire at 297m/974 ft.
The major urban areas of the region include Brighton and Hove, Portsmouth, Southampton, and Reading.
Settlements closer to London are part of the Greater London Urban Area.
South East England Development Agency  - Abolished in 2012
Tourism Information - Visit South East England
The highest point in the region is The Cheviot, in Northumberland, at 815m and the largest city is Newcastle.
Sunderland is the second-largest.
The region is known for its urban centres and for its natural beauty: Northumberland National Park, the region's coastline, its section of the Pennines and Weardale.
It also has great historic importance.
There are two World Heritage Sites: Durham Cathedral and Hadrian's Wall.
The North East HUB
North East Regional Assembly
The North East Biodiversity Forum
Future Races in North East England
Sussex is a historic county in South East England.
Its area is more or less the same as that of the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.
It is divided for local government into West Sussex and East Sussex and the City of Brighton and Hove.
The city of Brighton and Hove became a unitary authority in 1997; and got City status in 2000.
Until then Chichester had been Sussex's only city.
Sussex still has a strong local identity and the county's unofficial anthem is Sussex by the Sea.
The county's motto, "We wun't be druv", shows the  strong-willed nature of its people in past centuries.
Brighton (home of the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton)
Chichester (home of the University of Chichester)
"Angels in the Sussex Air", an anthology of poetry by Sussex authors chosen and edited by Patrick Garland,
"An Historical Atlas of Sussex", An Atlas of the History of the Counties of East and West Sussex, edited by Kim Leslie and Brian Short, with maps by Susan Rowland, published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd, Chichester, 1999,
Links and references
The Sussex Association
The Sussex Local Internet Portal  Justsussex
Sussex Community Website
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Football Association
Sussex Enterprise
Sussex Past (The Sussex Archaeological Society)
Sussex Wildlife Trust
The Royal Sussex Regimental Association
The Kingdom of Sussex, (Suth Seaxe, i.e. the South Saxons), was one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, its area was more or less that of the later county of Sussex.
A large part of that district, however, was covered in early times by the forest called Andred.
It was ruled by the kings of Sussex.
According to the traditional account given in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was in 477 that a certain Ælle led the invaders ashore at a place called Cymenes ora and defeated the inhabitants.
A further battle at a place called Mearcredes burne is recorded under the year 485, and in the annal for 491 we read that Ælle and his son Cissa robbed Anderitum (Pevensey Castle) and killed all the inhabitants.
Based on a 1911 encyclopedia article.
Annals (Latin Annales, from annus, a year) are a short form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year.
Cicero ( in De Oratore, ii.
52) tells that from the earliest period down to the pontificate of Publius Mucius Scaevola (c. 131 BC), it was usual for the pontifex maximus to record on a white tablet (album), which was exhibited in an open place at his house, so that the people might read it.
On this tablet were written down (according to Cicero) the name of the consuls and other magistrates, and then the important events of the year.
In Cicero's time these records were called Annales Maximi.
The practice of writing annals was carried on by several unofficial writers.
Cicero speaks of Cato, Pictor and Piso.
In the Middle Ages in the Western Church there were written tables to show that date of Easter for a certain number of years or even centuries.