29. When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered.

BBC: 100 things we didn't know this time last year
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boynton

Auden

...agitprop and slogans,
all the trite forms of disinformation.
Good is always like starlight and sunlight,
and poetry when it means just what it says,
and yet admits the moon's ambiguities...

Mark Jarman
Poetry Daily
28.12.05

Maggot, Maggoty.

Whimsical, full of whims and fancies. Fancy tunes used to be called maggots, hence we have “Barker’s maggots,” “Cary’s maggots,” “Draper’s maggots,” etc. (Dancing Master, 1721.)

When the maggot bites. When the fancy takes us. Swift tells us that it was the opinion of certain virtuosi that the brain is filled with little worms or maggots, and that thought is produced by these worms biting the nerves. “If the bite is hexagonal it produces poetry; if circular, eloquence; if conical, politics, etc. (Mechanical Operation of the Spirit.)

Instead of maggots the Scotch say, “His head is full of bees;” the French, “Il a des rats dans la tête;” and in Holland, “He has a mouse’s nest in his head.” (See BEE.)

E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898.
Bartleby

Cut shot down and partly loaded

Coal Car in Pocahontas Mine
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Pony Pulling Worker Into Mine
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Coal Miners at Work
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Teach Sloan and child
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Deserted Houses of Coal Mining Families in Big Stick, West Virginia
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Old Houses
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Wall of Coal
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Samples from the Coal Mines of America

A few people, some wires, some horses, no cars.
Street Scene, Cambria, Virginia

Being towed across Conococheague Aquaduct
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Boat Locking Through Canal
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Lockkeeper & Family, Lock 25

Man Exiting Cave
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Man drinking coffee in cave

Some cars, some people, lots of wires.
Looking North on Jefferson St. from Campbell Ave. Roanoke, Virginia July 19,1932
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Railroad : Norfolk and Western Historical Photograph Collection : Maps, Fares, Timetables, and Train Schedules
Virginia Tech Imagebase

No cars, no people, no wires.
View of the street in Knoxville [Tennessee, 1880] from in front of Mrs. Maynard's house.
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Civil War: New England Press Association Photograph Album
Virginia Tech Imagebase

Harriet Tubman

Mrs. Pankhurst being arrested for demanding the right to vote
15 October 1913

Women voting in Japan for the first time
and in France

Rebecca L. Felton, first woman elected to the United States Senate
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Maud Younger working on her Ford in Washington D.C.

Mrs. Pankhurst being arrested 02 June 1914

She's being arrested for demanding the right to vote.

Mrs. Pankhurst on Wall Street
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Mrs. Pankhurst on Wikipedia

Scorning man's aid suffrage leader motors alone from California

Maud Younger, legislative chairman of the National Woman's Party, seated at steering wheel of her automobile, on her arrival in Washington, D.C., from California, with her dog. (detail)

Homemade snippets, in the spirit of things just now.

Mariza Bateau
Belgian
Willy Moran

ID: regardez (at) gmail
Password: beloved

Lower left green box Labels sound.
The vocal clip is a sample from Mariza. She's Malagasy, and very famous in the larger world.
Made with d-lusion's Rubberduck bass synth and Drumstation
Belgian is Moonfish and Audacity and some old wav samples.
Willy Moran is a contact-pickup duct-taped to the guitar and held down by the heel of my thusly immobilized right hand, run through the microphone port on a Turtle Island sound card and recorded with Audacity. Tuning is D-A-C#-F#-A-C#. Watch the volume!
These aren't works or even projects - I'm not sure what they are, besides snippets.

Crowd waiting for Salvation Army Christmas dinner baskets (detail)

Crowd waiting for Salvation Army Christmas dinner baskets (detail)

"The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but there was a special emphasis on life in New York City. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s."

Keyword:Tree
Bain Collection at LoC:

Tree Day Barnard College class of 1911
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[George Jay] Gould Home seen through trees Lakewood N.J.
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Sir H.B. Tree and Elsa Mackay
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Mischa Elman leaning against tree playing violin
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Christmas Tree Market New York City
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Viola Tree
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Helen Keller standing by tree
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Flathead Indians holding pre-Christmas family gatherings on the west side of Glacier National Park, in the dense forest of evergreen trees that skirt the Rocky Mountains
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Child Actor's Christmas Tree N.Y.
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German biplane anchored to tree in Poland
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Arbor Day N.Y. Public School 1908
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Tree Day Barnard College, Miss Plant and The Owl of 1910
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Tree Tea Garden
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Christmas Tree Madison Square N.Y.
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New York City lodging house Christmas tree
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Children leaving police Christmas tree
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Christmas Tree Children's Temporary Home N.Y.

Big Tree, Rangoon
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N.Y. Police Dog Treeing Tramp
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Keyword: Christmas

Christmas shopping
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Packing for the Christmas Ship [for sailors in the European fleet and victims of what was at the time, 1913, still a European war]
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Raffle for [or with] a Christmas goose
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A load of Christmas packages
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Christmas shoppers on 6th Ave. 1910
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Christmas street peddlers
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Christmas toys in shop window
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Dr. W. W. Christmas
and Dr. Christmas elsewhere:

Dr. William W. Christmas
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Dr. William Wallace Whitney Christmas "had an exceptional career as a North Carolina aeronaut."
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Salvation Army Christmas dinner
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Taking home Salvation Army Christmas dinner
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Crowd waiting for Salvation Army Christmas dinner baskets 1908