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It formed as an extratropical cyclone, a type of weather system, to the southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
It then moved to the northwest over warm water temperatures.
It turned into a tropical storm on July 17, when an area of thunderstorms formed near the center of the cyclone.
The storm quickly reached peak winds of 50 mph (85 km/h).
It moved into cooler waters and began to lose strength.
On July 18, it died out, and what was left of the storm moved across Newfoundland.
Because the storm was weak, no damage happened.
A cold front moved off the east coast of the United States late on July 13.
While it was over the western Atlantic Ocean, it stopped moving.
The front then died out, but it left behind two areas of low pressure.
The southern one was about 200 miles (320 km) to the south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
The northern weather system was about 290 miles (470 km) to the south-southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
The northern one became an extratropical cyclone, a type of weather system, on July 16.
It moved to the northwest over warm water temperatures.
These temperatures were 80–82º F (27–28º C).
A large group of thunderstorm formed near the center of the storm.
It turned into a tropical depression on July 17, when it was about 240 miles (390 km) to the southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
The storm moved to the northwest northeastward, and it moved into an area that was good for strengthening.
It quickly became a tropical storm.
It continued to gain strength.
Late on July 17, the storm reached its peak winds of 50 mph (85 km/h).
At this time, it was about 245 miles (395 km) to the south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The storm then moved into much cooler water temperatures, after it left the Gulf Stream.
It quickly weakened as the convection quickly diminished, and it died out on July 18.
What was left of the storm moved over Newfoundland before turning to the east-northeast.
The storm was said to be a gale storm when it was active.
However, several months later, it was found that the storm did become a tropical cyclone.
There were several reasons for this change.
Impact, naming, and records
When the storm came near Canada, a buoy recorded winds of 36 mph (56 km/h).
It also recorded a wind gust of 44 mph (70 km/h).
The storm lost a large amount of strength before it moved over Newfoundland.
Because of this, there was no damage.
The Atlantic Storm Prediction Centre sent out gale warnings for the storm.
Every year, the National Hurricane Center checks to make sure they did not miss any storms during the past tropical storm season.
They found this storm on December 15, 2006, when they were studying the 2006 season.
If the storm was found when it was active, it would have been called "Tropical Storm Beryl".
It is guessed that the storm became a tropical cyclone at 39.1º N. This was the farthest north that any Atlantic storm in July became a tropical cyclone.
This broke the past record that was set by Tropical Storm Arthur in 2002.
NHC Tropical Cyclone Report
Massachusetts counties
1641 establishments
1640s establishments in Massachusetts
Cape Hatteras is a cape on the coast of North Carolina.
It is the point that protrudes the farthest to the southeast along the northeast-to-southwest line of the Atlantic coast of North America, making it a key point for navigation along the eastern seaboard.
So many ships have been lost around it that the area is known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic".
The nearby shoals are known as Diamond Shoals.
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is a well known feature on Cape Hatteras.
It was built in 1870 and it is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States.
National Park Service: Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
Tropical Storm Alberto (also known as Hurricane Alberto) became a tropical storm farther north than any other Atlantic tropical cyclone.
It was the first tropical storm of the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season.
It started from a region of low pressure off of the coast of South Carolina on August 5.
It quickly moved northeast.
It became a tropical storm on August 7.
It was about 60 miles (95 km) east of the Massachusetts island of Nantucket.
Tropical Storm Alberto continued to move quickly, and struck the western area of Nova Scotia late on August 7.
It lost its status as a tropical storm the next day when it reached north of Newfoundland.
Alberto produced light rain and wind across its path.
No damage came from it.
1980s in Canada
1988 in the United States
20th century in Maine
Tropical Storm Beryl was the third tropical storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.
Developing from a tropical disturbance on July 18, it tracked generally northward, and strengthened to attain peak winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) under generally favorable conditions.
After turning to the northeast, Beryl weakened over cooler waters.
On July 21 it struck the island of Nantucket, and shortly thereafter it became extratropical.
The extratropical remnants continued northeastward through Nova Scotia, and on July 22 it merged with an approaching cold front.
Beryl produced rough seas along the northeast United States coastline.
In Massachusetts, its impact was limited to light rainfall and gusty winds, with no reported damage.
Beryl later produced moderate rainfall and gusty winds across Atlantic Canada, resulting in some localized power outages though little damage.
A cold front moved off the East Coast of the United States on July 16 and stalled off the coast of North Carolina.
It slowly decayed into a surface low pressure trough, and developed into two disturbances; one was centered 290 miles (490 km) south-southeast of Cape Cod and another was located 200 miles (320 km) south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
The first low quickly organized into an unnamed tropical storm, and the other area stayed broad and disorganized.
However, by July 18, the system became much better organized with improved banding features, and the area developed into Tropical Depression Two while located 220 miles (355 km) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras.
The depression moved slowly to the north-northwest through a break in the subtropical ridge, and as convective banding features became more visible the system strengthened into Tropical Storm Beryl.
Throughout much of its duration, the storm tracked through an environment with light vertical wind shear and well-established upper-level outflow.
Shortly after becoming a tropical storm, the low-level circulation of Beryl became exposed with limited deep convection, though deep convection re-developed the following morning.
Outflow continued to improve, and with warm sea surface temperatures Beryl slowly strengthened further to reach peak winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) early on July 20 while located about 120 miles (190 km) east of Nags Head, North Carolina.
Beryl maintained peak winds for about 18 hours as it paralleled the Mid-Atlantic and New Jersey coasts, during which an eye-like feature developed in the center of the convection.
Late on July 20, it began a slow weakening trend after passing over cooler waters.
Steering winds ahead of an approaching mid-level trough caused Beryl to speed up northeastward, and early on July 21 the center of the storm crossed the island of Nantucket.
The convection diminished as it moved through progressively colder waters, and shortly after 1200 UTC on July 21 Beryl became an extratropical cyclone a short distance east of Cape Cod.
Hours later, it made landfall in southwestern Nova Scotia, and on July 22 the extratropical remnants of Beryl merged with an approaching cold front over Newfoundland.
Forecasters originally predicted Beryl to brush the Carolinas; as such, a tropical storm watch was issued for the eastern coast of North Carolina from Cape Lookout northward to Currituck Beach Lighthouse.
When a more northeastward track became apparent, a tropical storm watch was issued about 33 hours before moving ashore from Woods Hole to Plymouth, Massachusetts, including Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard.
About 22 hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center replaced the watch with a tropical storm warning for the same area, and also issued a tropical storm watch from Woods Hole, Massachusetts westward to New Haven, Connecticut and for the eastern portion of Long Island from east of Fire Island to Port Jefferson.
Expecting for the storm, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency was activated as a trial run for the hurricane season.
Local Red Cross chapters were opened, as well, with two volunteer teams placed on standby to assist.
Across southeastern Massachusetts, police departments maintained extra staff in preparation for any potential problems from the storm.
Many fishermen secured their boats, while some business owners boarded up windows to prevent storm damage.
Several days prior to the passage of Beryl through Atlantic Canada, the Canadian Hurricane Centre issued gale warnings for the coastal waters off of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
In anticipation of heavy rainfall, the agency also issued heavy rainfall warnings for western Nova Scotia, including Halifax.
The storm caused high waves along the East Coast of the United States, with 19 foot seas (5.97 m) in the open ocean.
Waves along the southern coast of Nantucket reached 10 feet in height as the storm approached the island, resulting in four people being rescued by lifeguards from rip currents.
High surf was also reported along the southern coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Beryl also produced a storm surge of 0.9 feet on Nantucket.
Winds across southeastern Massachusetts were fairly light, with no sustained tropical storm force winds and wind gusts peaking at 44 mph; unofficially gusts reached 51 mph.
Beryl dropped moderate precipitation just offshore, though the maximum precipitation total in the United States was only 0.97 inches (24.6 mm) on Nantucket.
Rainfall along southeastern Massachusetts reached 0.33 inches at Chatham.
The only reported damage were some downed telephone poles and fallen tree branches.
Overall impact was minor; there were no reported power outages, deaths, injuries, or maritime emergencies in association with the storm.
The remnants of Beryl dropped moderate precipitation in Atlantic Canada, officially peaking at 2.8 inches (71 mm) in Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia with an unofficially higher total of 3.5 inches (88 mm); in some locations 1 inch of rain fell in an hour.
Additionally, a station in Fredericton, New Brunswick reported 1.77 inches (45 mm) in 2 hours.
The rainfall caused some flooding, with some overflown streams flooding some streets.
Moderate winds were reported along its path, which peaked at 60 mph (96 km/h) in southern Nova Scotia.
The winds downed some tree limbs and led to some power outages.
Overall damage was minor.
NHC's archive on Tropical Storm Beryl
2000s in New York (state)
2000s in Massachusetts
The 1991 Halloween Nor’easter, also known as the Perfect Storm, was an atypical nor’easter which was extratropical, absorbed one hurricane, and ultimately evolved into a small hurricane late in its life cycle.
The unnamed hurricane of 1991 was the last tropical cyclone of the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season, and its 4 hurricane.
By November 2, Atlantic Canada experienced the effects of a landfalling tropical storm.
Damage totaled $208 million (1991 USD) and deaths climbed to 12 people.
Most of the damage occurred while the storm was extratropical.
The hurricane was the second costliest storm of the season, behind only Hurricane Bob.
Tropical cyclones in North America
Halloween Nor'easter
A nor'easter (also northeaster) is a big storm along the East Coast of the United States.
A Nor'easter is called that because the winds in a Nor'easter come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada.
More specifically, it is a low pressure area whose center of rotation is just off the East Coast and whose leading winds in the left forward quadrant rotate onto land from the northeast.
The precipitation pattern is similar to other extratropical storms.
Nor'easters also can cause coastal flooding, coastal erosion, hurricane force winds, and heavy snow.
Nor'easters can be devastating and damaging, especially in the winter months, when most damage and deaths are from the cold.
Nor'easters bring very cold air down from the Arctic.
Nor'easters thrive on the converging air masses; that is, the polar cold air mass and the warmer ocean water of the Gulf Stream.
Nor'easters will usually develop between 30° N. and 35° N.
The East Coast of the United States, is a part of the United States.
It is also called the "Eastern Seaboard" or "Atlantic Seaboard".
The East Coast refers, or talks about, the farthest east states of the US.
These states touch the Atlantic Ocean all the way up to Canada.
Sometimes people use it to mean only the Northeastern United States.
Other times they mean the thirteen original states plus Maine, Washington, D.C. and Florida.
The southern half of this region is in the Southern United States or Southeastern United States.
Nags Head is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
The population was 2,700 at the 2000 census.
Official website of Nags Head, NC
Web cam of Nags Head, NC – East
Web cam of Nags Head, NC – West
Nags Head MLS
Towns in North Carolina
Cape Lookout is southern point of the South Core Banks, one of the natural barrier islands on the Atlantic coast of North Carolina, USA.
It delimits Onslow Bay to the west from Raleigh Bay to the east.
An area of the banks to either side of it has been designated the Cape Lookout National Seashore.
New Haven is the second largest city in Connecticut, after Bridgeport, with a population of 129,779 at the 2010 United States Census. "
New Haven" may also refer to the wider Greater New Haven area, which has nearly 600,000 inhabitants in the immediate area.
It is in New Haven County, on New Haven Harbor, on the northern shore of Long Island Sound.
The trial for the mutiny of the slave ship Amistad took place in New Haven.
City of New Haven official Web site
Historical New Haven Digital Collection
"Who Really Ruled in Dahl's New Haven?"
by G. William Domhoff — examination of power structures in New Haven and Yale in the 1960s
The New Haven Independent neighborhood-based online newspaper
Yale Daily News - student-run daily newspaper with New Haven coverage
NewHavenWeb - A Comprehensive Online Directory of New Haven
Martha's Vineyard (and the smaller Chappaquiddick Island nearby) is an island off the southern coast of Cape Cod, both forming a part of the Outer Lands region.
It is often called just "the Vineyard".
With a land area of 87.48 square miles (231.75 km²), Martha's Vineyard is the 57th largest island in the United States.
It is located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in Dukes County, which also includes Cuttyhunk and the other Elizabeth Islands, as well as the island of Nomans Land.
Woods Hole is a census-designated place and village within the town of Falmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, at the extreme southwest corner of Cape Cod, near Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands.
Census-designated places in Massachusetts
Sometimes radiation or radionuclide are also considered carcinogens.
A common example of a carcinogen is tobacco smoke.
Carcinogens come from both natural and man-made substances.
Carcinogens in radiation
Several radioactive substances are considered carcinogens.
The carcinogens in them are caused by the radiation they release, such as gamma rays or alpha particles.
CERCLA says that all radionuclides are carcinogens.
How much of a carcinogen a radiation is depends on the type of radiation, the type of exposure to it and its penetration.
For example, alpha radiation has low penetration and is not a danger outside the body.
Alpha radiation is a carcinogen when breathed in or eaten.
Thorotrast, previously used in x-rays, is a human carcinogen.
Marie Curie, one of the pioneers of radioactivity, died of a cancer that was caused by the radiation she was exposed to during her experiments.
Radio waves, microwave radiation, infrared radiation, and visible light are examples of this.
Higher-energy radiation, including ultraviolet radiation, usually is carcinogenic, if a person is exposed to it long enough.
Carcinogens in food
Recent research has shown that when food is cooked at high temperatures, carcinogens may be formed in very small amounts.
Pre-cooking meats in a microwave oven for 2-3 minutes before broiling shortens the time on the hot pan.
This could help stop the carcinogens from being made.
Certain kinds of foods, like potato chips and French fries, may have higher levels of carcinogens than others.
The charred residue on barbecued meats is a carcinogen, too.
This does not mean eating cooked foods is dangerous.
The gastrointestinal tract sheds its outer layer continuously to protect itself from carcinomas.
Because of this, it has a good chance of shedding bad enzymes that could cause cancer.
U.S. National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens
Recognized Carcinogens
Information on Carcinogens
The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson is in the town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York.
It is on the North Shore of Long Island.
As of the United States 2000 census, the 7,837 people lived there.
The small town is home to several unique restaurants and shops, and has a growing tourism industry.
The Currituck Beach Light is a lighthouse in Corolla, North Carolina, on the Outer Banks.
Currituck Beach Light
19th-century establishments in North Carolina
The A-10 Thunderbolt II (also called the Warthog) is an attack aircraft made by Fairchild Republic.
It first flew in 1972 and was introduced in 1977.
It is designed to drop bombs, fire rockets, missiles, and its 30 mm Gatling Gun at enemies on the ground (like tanks).
It is named after the World War II P-47 Thunderbolt.
It is not as fast as most military jets, but it is tough, heavily armored, and can turn well.
The A-10 is also used as a CAS (close air support) aircraft, which involves flying slowly over a target area and destroying any targets in that area.
The A-10 is 53 feet, 4 inches (16.16 meters) long, 14 feet, 8 inches (4.42 meters) high, has a wingspan of 57 feet, 6 inches (17.42 meters), can go 420 miles per hour, and can weigh 51,000 pounds (22,950 kilograms) at heaviest.
It is armed with a 30 mm GAU-8 Gatling gun, and can have a few tons of bombs or missiles.
It can also carry radar-jamming pods so it cannot be seen on radar, and chaff, which can confuse missiles fired at the A-10.
While the A-10 has a lot of room on its wings to carry bombs and missiles, its main weapon is the gun, called the GAU-8 Avenger.
It is a very long and heavy gun called a Gatling cannon, since it is a both an autocannon (fires large bullets very fast) and Gatling gun (has more than one barrel, which spin while being shot) The Avenger is so big that the A-10 had to be built around it, which created the joke that the A-10 does not have a gun attached like other warplanes, but it is the Avenger that has a plane attached.
The A-10 is the only airplane to use the Avenger.
Other American planes instead use the smaller Vulcan, which is also a Gatling cannon but with a smaller bullet.
Because the Avenger fires such big bullets (artillery shells 3 cm wide, which also explode) at such a high rate of fire (up to 40 every second) many believe it can destroy any target very easily, even tanks with thick armour such as the M1 Abrams.
The bullet can go through thin metal on a car or truck, but it cannot penetrate the thick metal covering a tank.
It can only destroy them because most tanks only have thin metal on their top to make them lighter.
If an A-10 manages to shoot there, then it is bad for the tank, but if it shoots the front or side where the metal is thicker, then the tank will not be damaged.
Rugged aircraft
The A-10 is reportedly a rugged aircraft.
On April 7, 2003, then-Captain Kim Campbell felt a loud hit to her A-10.
The aircraft rolled left and pointed toward the ground.
After trying other procedures, she turned off the hydraulics and flew the aircraft in manual reversion.
The aircraft performed fine during the hour flight back to the air base.
However, landing was tricky, because she had no brakes nor ground steering without hydraulics.
P-47 Thunderbolt
Fire Island is a barrier island, approximately 31 miles (49.5 km) long and varying between approximately 0.1 mile (0.16 km) to 0.5 mile (0.8 km) wide, in Suffolk County on the southern side of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York, running approximately WSW to ENE.
The land area is 48 km² (18.7 sq mi) and a permanent population of 310 persons was reported as of the 2000 census.
(There are many thousands of seasonal residents.)
Fire Island Travel Guide
Census-designated places in New York (state)
Plymouth (historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
It is the largest municipality in Massachusetts by area.
The population was 51,701 at the 2000 census, with its estimated 2007 population being 57,901.
Plymouth is one of two county seats of Plymouth County, the other being Brockton.
It is named after Plymouth, England, which is, in turn, named for the mouth of the river Plym.
Plymouth was first settled by the Pilgrims in 1620.
The first Thanksgiving was held there.
It was the capitol of Plymouth Colony from 1620 until 1691, when it became part of Massachusetts.
Plymouth was an important port in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Destination: Plymouth tourism site
Plymouth Town Website
Wicked Local Plymouth
1620 establishments
1620s establishments in Massachusetts
Buix is a former municipality of the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Buix, Courtemaîche and Montignez merged into the new municipality of Basse-Allaine.
Bure is a municipality of the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Charmoille was a municipality, in the new municipality of La Baroche and the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Coeuve is a municipality of the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Cornol is a municipality of the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
For the town in France, see Courgenay, Yonne.
Official website of the municipality of Courgenay
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction movie.
It was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
It was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
The movie deals with human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life.
The science aspects in the movie seem very real.
It had new special effects.
It used images and sound to show meaning and did not use much talking.
The music at the beginning is the start of a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss called "Also Sprach Zarathustra".
It received some good and some bad reviews when it was released.
Now 2001: A Space Odyssey is recognized by critics as one of the greatest movies ever made; a sample of critics in 2002 placed it among the top ten movies of all time.
It was nominated for four Academy Awards, and it was given an award for visual effects.
In 1991, it was thought to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" (i.e. important for culture, history and aesthetics) by the United States Library of Congress and was chosen to be kept in their National Film Registry.
1968 science fiction movies
Movies set in 2001
Xenogears is a 1999 roleplaying video game created by Squaresoft.
The main character is named Fei and he does not like gears or fighting.
The final boss that you must kill is god.
The main character for the series is Solid Snake.
He is a soldier who does sneaking (hiding) missions by himself, much like James Bond.
He is a clone of a famous soldier named Big Boss.
The games have a large amount of story about these two men and the things that happen to them.
Many players say the games are like watching a James Bond movie or reading a book about spies.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions
Metal Gear Solid: Ghost Babel
Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus+
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
The Metal Gear Wiki
Deus Ex is a video game available on the personal computer.
It is a first person shooter.
The game is about a conspiracy in the future that involves the Illuminati and artificial intelligence.
The player plays as J.C. Denton, a cyborg who has to deal with problems like robots, men, and bombs.
Denton has a brother and many employers.
He has skills in the game that increase when goals are completed.
For instance, if he needs to sneak up on men in the Army, the player might use a ventilation shaft and gain extra points, which can then be used like money to buy better aim with a pistol.
Deus Ex came out in 2000.
It tried to say things about philosophy, knowledge, terrorism, and other things, much like The Matrix.
It is widely regarded as one of the best computer games and video games of all time.
Official page on Eidos site
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce.
The complete book was first published in 1922, although parts of it had appeared earlier.
It was an early example of "stream of consciousness" writing.
This attempts to give the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue (see below), or in connection to his or her actions.
Stream-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of interior monologue.
The story takes place on 16 June 1904, and is about a man named Leopold Bloom, who walks around Dublin.
The book also tells the story of Molly Bloom, his wife, and of Stephen Dedalus, a school teacher.
The book became famous for several reasons, but mainly because it is written in a new this style.
The book is now thought to be important modernist literature.
Many professors and teachers teach this book in universities and colleges.
Joyce first encountered Odysseus in Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses - an adaptation of the Odyssey for children.
This seemed to establish the Greek name in Joyce's mind.
At school he wrote an essay on Ulysses as his 'favourite hero'.
Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature.
He thought about calling Dubliners by the name Ulysses in Dublin, but the idea grew from a story in Dubliners in 1906, to a 'short book' in 1907, to the vast novel which he began writing in 1914.
A brief satirical summary of Ulysses with illustrations
A large website discussing Ulysses
The text of Joseph Collins's 1922 New York Times review of Ulysses
A hypertextual, self-referential, complete edition of Ulysses
Daedalus and Odysseus: Two Mythic Heroes Influencing Fatherhood as Represented in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Group audio recording of novel
1922 books
, also romanized as Gumpei Yokoi, was a video game designer for Nintendo.
He created the Game Boy and the produced the Metroid series of video games.
He was also a mentor to Shigeru Miyamoto.
Yokoi's last invention, the Virtual Boy, was not a success.
He left Nintendo and started a company called Koto Laboratory.
His main product idea at this company was the WonderSwan, which came out in 1999, two years after he died.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel written by the Irish writer James Joyce.
It was first printed as a book in 1916.
It tells the story of Stephen Dedalus, a young man who is trying to be a writer in Dublin.
The story begins from his childhood and ends with him deciding to go to Paris and leave Dublin, his hometown, to become a writer.
The book is written in a new style of writing called stream of consciousness.
Therefore, the beginning of the book is very simple while the later parts become less simple.
It shows how, when a person grows up, the language he or she uses becomes more and more complex.
Searchable, self-referential edition of Portrait, with concordance
SparkNotes study guide
The Literature Network
Google Earth Placeset for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1910s books
1916 works
Finnegans Wake is the last book written by the Irish writer James Joyce.
It was published in 1939.
He started to work on this book in 1924 and published parts of it under the titles "A New Unnamed Work" and "Work in Progress".
He did not complete until seventeen years later, in 1939.
During this time he faced many hardships, such as having no money, eye problems and family problems.
Finnegans Wake is a very hard book to read, even for people who read a lot of literature, because Joyce uses several languages and creates new words that come from combinations of old and new English and other languages as well.
It can be understood as the story of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and his family.
But it is an experiment more than a story.
Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury (FWEET)
Etext of Finnegans Wake
Annotated version of Finnegans Wake
Online shorter Finnegans Wake
Online really short Finnegans Wake
Editions of Finnegans Wake
The James Joyce Scholars' Collection includes etexts of several works of Wakean scholarship.
Finnegans Wiki, an ambitious project to Wiki the Wake
"Icon O Graphing Finnegans Wake" is a visual fable based on James Joyce’s novel "Finnegans Wake" by Toronto artist Boris Dimitrov.
Terence McKenna lecture 'Surfing Finnegan's Wake'
"Genesis, Geniuses, and Guinesses," The Common Review, Fall 2005, pg.
58: a pop-culture gloss for effective reading, with headings based on Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Freerunning sleep can be sleep which is not adjusted, entrained, to the 24-hour cycle in nature.
Sleep which is entrained to 24 hours but is not artificially regulated by alarm clocks etc.
can also be called freerunning sleep.
Animals which are kept in a laboratory for research in constant conditions, that is in constant light or constant dark, will freerun.
They live by their built-in circadian rhythms.
Each day will be a little bit shorter or a little bit longer than 24 hours.
It will be shorter if the animal's natural cycle is less than 24 hours long.
The animals sleep and are active as usual, but their timing gets to be farther and farther off.
Scientists let the animals freerun and then do experiments to see what sort of signals are most effective at entraining them.
They also experiment to see how long or short a cycle that animal can be entrained to.
Some animals can be entrained to a 22-hour day, but they can not be entrained to a 20-hour day.
Light is the most effective signal.
Some animals are quite easily entrained by the timing of meals.
Exercise is a signal for some animals.
Heat is not effective.
Sometimes people stay in a laboratory for a few days in very low light without any knowledge of the time.
Such experiments show that adults, both older and younger, have a circadian cycle which is 24 hours and 11 minutes, on average.
People freerunning
Some people have a condition, a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, which makes them freerun all the time, even if they get out into daylight and eat regular meals.
Many of these people are blind, but some of them can see.
They have a long  circadian cycle and they do not entrain.
Scientists do not yet know why.
Intentional freerunning
Some people believe they will be more healthy if they do not sleep on a regular schedule.
They try to go to bed only when they are sleepy.
They do not use alarm clocks.
They call this freerunning, but since they are exposed to daylight and dark, it's not the same as freerunning as the scientists use the term.
Federico (Frederic) Mompou (born Barcelona, 16 April  1893; died Barcelona 30 June, 1987) was a Spanish (Catalan) composer.
He is best known for his short works for solo piano and his songs.
Mompou was born in Barcelona (Spain), and studied piano there at the Conservatorio del Liceo.
In 1911 he went to Paris.
He was studying to be a concert pianist, but he was very shy, and decided to become a composer.
Although he left Paris and returned to Barcelona when World War I broke out in 1914, he went to Paris again in 1921 and stayed there until 1941 when, once again he went back to Catalonia, because the German army were invading Paris in World War II.
He continued to lecture about his music until he had a stroke.
He died at the age of 94.
Mompou is best known as a miniaturist (someone who composes short pieces).
His music often sounds as if is being improvised.
When he wrote his Scènes d'enfants (1915-18) a French music critic, Émile Vuillermoz, said he would be the next great composer after Debussy.
Although he did not become as famous as Debussy, his musical style shows the influence of French Impressionism and of Erik Satie.
He liked using short, repeated note-patterns (ostinati), imitations of bells, and a kind of thoughtful, religious sound which is heard in his piece called "John of the Cross."
His music often uses the rhythms and modes of  Catalan folkmusic.
Groves Music Online
A right triangle, (also called a right-angled triangle), has one angle that is 90 degrees.
The other two angles always add up to 90 degrees but can be different sizes.
The side opposite to the right angle is the hypotenuse; it is the longest side in the right triangle.
The other two sides are the legs or catheti (singular: cathetus) of the triangle.
This is a list of parties in the world that consider themselves to be upholding the principles and values of social democracy.
Some are also members of the Socialist International.
Names used by social democratic parties
Democratic Socialist Party
Social Democratic Union
Alphabetical list
Social Democratic Parties
VIS Interactive was a video game company by WB Interactive.
It was formed in 1996 by Chris van der Kuyl and Peter Baillie.
The company also provided interactive content for Interactive Digital Television ("iTV") and broadband.
VIS entertainment plc consisted of VIS Games and associated companies Axis Animation and VIS iTV.
The company had over 100 employees.
On April 7, 2005, VIS filed for bankruptcy.
Later in the month, all development work was cancelled and assets were sold to other developing companies.
Video game companies
Stream of consciousness is a famous phrase of the American psychologist and philosopher William James.
It refers to the flow of thoughts in the conscious human mind.
Apparently spontaneous live or recorded performances, as in film, music, and dramatic and comic monologues, intended to recreate the raw experience of the person portrayed or the performer
Stream of consciousness writing, a literary technique
Stream of consciousness (psychology), in psychology and philosophy
Stream of Consciousness (album), an album by Vision Divine
"Stream of Consciousness" (song), an instrumental song by Dream Theater on their album Train of Thought
"Stream of Consciousness" (The Outer Limits), an episode of The Outer Limits
If it is done in context with the surrounding world it is called interior or internal monologue.
That means it is unspoken, and in some cases could not be spoken.
For example, in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog (1925) the first chapter is entirely based on the dog's unspoken thoughts on the world about him.
Stream-of-consciousness writing is typical for the modernist movement.
The term was coined by William James in 1890 in his  Principles of Psychology.
The use of the term in literature is attributed to May Sinclair.
Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers sont coupés (1888)
Arthur Schnitzler's Leutnant Gustl (1901)
Nadine Gordimer's July's People
Shikibu's The Tale of Genji
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song.
Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage (1915-28)
James Joyce's Ulysses (in particular Molly Bloom's Soliloquy), as well as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying
T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
J.D. Salinger Seymour: An Introduction
Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londonders
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time
William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch
Courtedoux is a municipality of the district of Porrentruy of the Canton of Jura, Switzerland.
Villages in Switzerland
Courtemaîche is a former municipality of the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Courtemaîche, Buix and Montignez merged into the new municipality of Basse-Allaine.
Information in French about Damphreux on Juranet
Fahy is a municipality of the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state.
She was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan two times.
She was sworn in for the first time in 1988 but removed from office 20 months later under orders of then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on a belief that she was corrupt.
In 1993 Bhutto was re-elected but was again removed in 1996 on similar charges, this time by President Farooq Leghari.
On December 27, 2007, Benazir Bhutto was killed while getting into a vehicle to leave a political meeting for the Pakistan Peoples Party in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
An assassin shot her in the neck and chest before detonating an explosive vest.
This killed about 30 people and wounded many others.
She is called Shaheed-e-Jamhuriat (Martyr of Democracy) by her fans.
The Official Website of Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto was Kurdish
Watch Benazir's videos and interviews
Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister
Asif Zardari Profile
Bhutto cleared of corruption
Bhutto on Al-Qaeda
All About Benazir Bhutto
Musharraf blocks PPP rallies
Pakistan Peoples Party website
Pakistani opposition protests Bhutto case
Pakistani murder victims
People murdered in Pakistan
Prime Ministers of Pakistan
The sitar ( or ; , Punjabi: ਸਿਤਾਰ, Urdu:   ) is a plucked string instrument.
It uses sympathetic strings along with a long hollow neck and a gourd resonating chamber to make a rich sound with complex harmonic resonance.
It is used throughout India.
A knowledge base on Sitar
International sitar learning and information website (sitar.co.za)
Origin of Sitar
Information on the Sitar
More about Sitar
History and Origins of the Sitar
vimoksha - Indian classical music resources - Information on Indian classical music, stringed instruments and Indian classical dance.
Sitar FAQ
Sitar buying guide
The oud  is a pear-shaped, stringed instrument.
It is similar to a modern western lute.
It does not have frets.
It is commonly used in Middle Eastern music and East African music.
NileCart  Egyptian oud gallery.
Oud Cafe, a website dedicated to Oud music
There are two main types of pickups.
While piezo pickups are more common on acoustic guitars, and magnetic on electric ones, some guitars have both kinds.
Magnetic pickups contain magnets with wire wrapped around them.
When a metal string vibrates near the magnet an electrical signal is produced in the wire.
Technical detail on how pickups work
UltimateGuitar.com Pickup FAQ
Constructing an Under Saddle Transducer - Instructions for building a piezo cable guitar transducer.
An article on the Liutaio Mottola Lutherie Information Website.
Properties of Magnetic Materials (chapter)
Neophyzix Sound Research/Q-tuner neodymium powered guitar & bass pickups.
Downloadable 24 Bit/96 kHz audio wav demo.
Pickup (music): In music, a device that changes vibrations created by an instrument (for example an electric guitar) into an electrical signal which can be amplified and recorded.
Pickup truck: A type of automobile with an open back end for carrying things.
Vihuela is a name given to two different guitar-like string instruments: one from 16th century Spain, usually with 12 paired strings, and the other, the Mexican vihuela, from 20th century Mexico with five strings and typically played in Mariachi bands.
lutesandguitars.co.uk Stephen Barber & Sandi Harris, lutemakers and researchers
vihuelademano.com Alexander Batov, vihuela maker and researcher
Goldberg magazine: Los dos rinacimintos de la vihuela  The twentieth-century resuscitation of the vihuela.
Several photos of Spanish vihuelas can be found among the instrument photos at Wayne Cripps' lute pages.
Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born January 24, 1986) is an award-winning Anglo-American actress.
She was born in Hammersmith, west London.
She moved to New York City when she was six.
She has British and American citizenship.
She is best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C.
Legal troubles
Mischa Barton on BollyTrendz
The range of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play.
For a singing voice, this is known as vocal range.
Torres Jurado is often respected among guitarists the same way Antonio Stradivari is respected among violinists.
His work established the shape, design, and construction of the modern classical guitar.
Spanish musical entertainers
Born in Texas, he played the violin and the lap steel guitar in Vaudeville before going into the business of then manufacturing of electric lap steel guitars, electric guitars, electric bass guitars, electric violins and combo instrument amplifiers.
He is well known for his creation of the Frying pan electric guitar.
He died in Los Angeles, California while deep-sea fishing.
The Earliest Days of the Electric Guitar
Which Came First- Electric Guitar or Amp?
Digital Violin - Article examining Beauchamp's Electro violins
People from Texas
Danelectro is an American company that makes musical instruments and accessories.
Their main products are guitars, bass guitars, amplifiers and effects units.
The company  was founded by Nathan Daniel in 1947 in Red Banks, New Jersey.
Jimi Hendrix is among the many well-known guitarists to have used Danelectro.
The company is headuartered in Camarillo, California
Danelectro Guitars - official website
DanGuitars - specialist dealer website with a good history section
Guitarbitz.com  - UK based retailer of the recent Danelectro Reissues
Doug Tulloch - Vintage Danelectro Authority
Tribute to Danelectro founder Nathan I. Daniel by son Howard E. Daniel
The book of Numbers in the Bible is the fourth book in the Old Testament.
It is called a book of Moses because it contains the story of Moses and the Israelites when they wander throughout the wilderness before ending up at Israel (also known as Canaan or Palestine), where God promised they will settle (the promised land).
The book is called Numbers because at the start God ordered a counting of the people (a census) in the twelve tribes of Israel.
After counting all the men who are over twenty and fit to fight, the Israelites began to travel in well-ordered divisions, with God in the middle of the Ark of the Covenant.
In Hebrew, the book is called Bemidbar (בַּמִּדְבָּר), which means 'in the desert.'
This is because Moses and the Hebrew people wandered in the Egyptian desert for 40 years, fleeing from the pharaoh after more than 400 years of slavery.
When the people found that Israel was filled with strong and powerful people of other races, they became scared and rebelled against God and Moses.
As a result of their bad behavior, therefore, God punished them by making the Israelites travel forty years before they could settle in Israel, the promised land.
This was also so that the next generation of Israelites would enter the promised land, following the death of the previous, badly-behaved generation.
Moses and the Hebrew people are escaping Egypt.
They travel through Sinai.
Some people complain, insult God, insult Moses.
God punishes them.
They send 12 spies to see what the promised land, Israel, is like.
Two came back saying it is nice.
Ten came back saying it is not nice and filled with "giants".
So the Israelites do not go.
God becomes angry and punishes them.
They have to wander the desert for 40 years.
Some people complain about God, and God punishes them (e.g. by giving one leprosy, a nasty disease).
The complaints deal with the lack of good food and water, and the difficulty of life in the desert.
The food they are given is called manna and quail, which God sends raining down from the sky above.
Their ingratitude is an example of the human inclination of moaning rather than being thankful for what one has, which in their case was the ultimate liberation from centuries of wicked slavery.
The Levites help Moses pray at the tabernacle.
Moses and the Israelites set for Moab, on the eastern border of Canaan (an earlier name for the promised land).
The Israelites become thirsty and blame Moses for lack of water.
God tells Moses to talk to a rock to bring out water.
Moses hits the rock with his staff instead.
For this wrong act, God tells Moses he can never enter the promised land.
God punishes the people by preventing them from entering the promised land.
They try to find another way.
Aaron dies.
The Israelites curse at God.
They are then attacked by nasty fiery flying serpents.
God tells Moses to make a brass serpent (the Nehushtan) and put it on a pole.
Whoever looks at that brass serpent is cured of the bite of the serpents.
The Israelites arrive at Moab.
Moses names Joshua the new leader, who is tasked with completing their journey into Israel.
The land is then divided between various tribes.
Book of Numbers article (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Online versions and translations
Original language:
במדבר Bamidbar - Numbers (Hebrew - English at Mechon-Mamre.org)
Jewish translations:
Numbers at Mechon-Mamre (Jewish Publication Society translation)
Numbers (The Living Torah) Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's translation and commentary at Ort.org
Bamidbar - Numbers (Judaica Press) translation with Rashi's commentary at Chabad.org
Christian translations:
Online Bible at GospelHall.org  (King James Version)
oremus Bible Browser (New Revised Standard Version)
oremus Bible Browser (Anglicized New Revised Standard Version)
Numbers at Wikisource (Authorized King James Version)
Official Versace website
Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker () ), is an American company that makes electric guitars.
The company invented the first electric guitar during the 1930s.
The guitars are made at its headquarters in Santa Ana, California.
Rickenbacker is the largest guitar company to make all of their guitars within the United States.
Rickenbacker International Corporation
"Born to Rock" guitar exhibit at Harrods, London, February 2007, featuring the 1931 Rickenbacker "Frying Pan".
Also see BBC 6 Music
news story.
Donatella Versace (born 2 May 1955) is an Italian fashion designer and a current part-owner of the Versace fashion line.
She is now their chief designer.
She was born in Reggio Calabria.
She owns 20 percent of the entire stock market assets of Versace.
Her brother, Santo Versace, owns 30 percent.
Donatella's daughter Allegra Versace inherited 50% of the company stock.
They inherited the company from Donatella's brother Gianni Versace after he was murdered.
A year and three days after Gianni's death in July 1998, Donatella Versace mounted her first couture show for the Versace Atelier at the Hôtel Ritz Paris.
She built her runway over the hotel's swimming pool, using sheer glass.
She now oversees the production of a dozen collections each year.
Donatella is just as famous for her celebrity entourage and glittering parties.
Regular guests include Sir Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, Rakeem Young, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kate Moss.
Even Prince Charles attends Donatella's parties for the famous and elite in Europe.
Lady Gaga wrote the song "Donatella" from her 2013 album Artpop for Versace.
Italian fashion designers
People from Calabria
Defence (or "War" as it was called before World War II) and
the Foreign Office
The Reich Justice Office was created in 1875.
It was a part of the Chancellor's department until 1 January 1877 when it became independent.
The first Minister of Justice was appointed in 1919, when the Office of Justice became the Reichsministerium der Justiz of the Weimar Republic
Political
The Federal Minister of Justice heads the Ministry.
He has two senior assistants.
The Parliamentary State Secretary, a member of the Bundestag who acts as a "junior minister"
The "beamteter Staatssekretär".
This is the senior civil servant of the department.
Germany is a federal country.
The administration of the justice and criminal prosecution is mainly a matter for the federal states.
Commercial and Company law
Copyright and protecting industrial property rights
Organisation and procedures of the courts (except the Labour and Social Security Courts)
The ministry has also been responsible for the legal problems after the reunification of Germany.
This meant changing a lot of criminal and administrative law.