gonkulator

"A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favorite piece of computer hardware."

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women were excluded from shaping the paradigm they are now being paradoxically judged within

Christian Patterson on the LoC P&P

at after Momus (whose Bonsai Tree is still echoing through here)

"Luckily language is never in the exclusive control of scholars; it does not belong to them alone, as they are often inclined to believe; it belongs to all who have it as a mother-tongue. It is governed not by elected representatives but by a direct democracy, by the people as a whole assembled in town-meeting."

Brander Matthews, Essays in English 8-9 (1922)

Garner's Usage Tip of the Day

Fifty Years in Chains or The Life of an American Slave
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from the archives:

a piece of the slave ship Clothilde
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Melungeons
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Portraits of African American ex-slaves
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Bell Rack

An even more learned equivalent is "fugacious," which is a literary word as well as a botanical term describing plants that wither or drop their leaves early.

Garner's Usage Tip of the Day

Inconstant Star

seven people stopped what they were doing

We are here on Earth to fart around

The word guitar is a Persian loanword to Iberian Arabic
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A Russian seven string is tuned differently from the Spanish guitar. It is tuned in thirds instead of fourths, resulting in a G major chord as follows: D', G', B, D, g, b, d'. This tuning is thought to have derived from that of the torban, a Ukrainian variety of theorbo, as one of its tunings was also based on major triads.
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L'Arpeggiata downloads
L'Arpeggiata - Los Impossibles
Christina Pluhar – harpe baroque, théorbe, direction
Marcello Vitale – chitarra battente, guitare baroque
see esp. videos
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Alfio is Sicilian, and has mastered an extremely complex art. His music-making is part of the polyrhythmic art that Sicilians know backwards and forwards.

Interview with Christina Pluhar
at Goldberg, the early music portal
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Guitarra, portuguesa
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Marcello Vitale Tarantella Napoletana
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more chitarra battente
more
and more
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I Cantori di Carpino
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theorbos I have known
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theater am spittelberg
Hotel Palindrone
Caroline Lavelle on a very big horse
Ned Ludd Socially Useless Men
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Poliziano’s Orpheus accompanied himself on a lute
or perhaps a bowed lira di braccio
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Orpheus (detail)
Franz Frank Bildindex

permanent rainbow

"Jeannie" the Lady Hermit of the Cornish Cliffs
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plep
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THE MUDDLE FAMILIES OF THE WORLD

William Alfred Muddle

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one daffodil per year!

her courage, and the generosity of her urge to share experience

"Pet" Oliver Spencer Halstead - Warm friend of Lincoln.

Harriet Taylor at Spartacus
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at wikipedia
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Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom.
- John Stuart Mill

Harriet Taylor at SEP

Harriet Pratt, Sheila Byrne, Constance Jennings,
Herb Pratt Jr., Hilda Byrne, Eunice Jennings
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Harriet Tubman - nurse, spy, scout, and slave
Harriet Tubman - escaping (watercolor)
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Pool of Tears
Pool of Tears 2
Kiki Smith
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Aunt Harriet Allen, Aunt Ladonna Hoy, Grandma Joanette C-B, Aunt Julia Millard, Aunt Laura
-Lady Harriet Ackland standing in a rowboat on the Hudson River appealing to a sentry at the American camp for permission to come ashore
Lady Harriet Ackland
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Harriet Gustine
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The Andrews Sisters in Swingtime Johnny with
Harriet Hilliard(of Ozzie and...)
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Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau
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Harriet Quimby
Harriet Quimby
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Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
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Miss Harriet Scoville
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Miss Harriet Mann
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Harriet Hoctor
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Harriet Cogswell
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Harriet Hammond, President, Nemours Gun Club
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The folds of her cloak making her seem like a kneeling marble
Elizabeth Shippen Green, artist
Published in: "Her Eyes are Doves" by Harriet Prescott Spofford
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Ladies' Four-in-hand Club Harriet Alexander driving
Harriet Alexander driving in Central Park
Harriet Alexander's coach party
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Second Lieutenant Harriet West of the Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps
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Harriet Hood
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Harriet Taylor Upton
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Harriet Lane Johnston
Harriet Lane Johnston - First Lady of the National Collection of Fine Arts
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Harriet McLellan and the National Congress of Mothers
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Harriet Mitchell on Brother
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Katharine Wright(sister of Wilbur and Orville Wright) lying on ground, Harriet Silliman in a chair.
Katharine Wright(sister of Wilbur and Orville Wright), Harriet Silliman, and Agnes Osborne in horse-drawn carriage across from Wright home, 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton, Ohio
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Harriet Burton Laidlaw
Harriet Burton Laidlaw
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Harriet May Mills
Harriet May Mills
Harriet Mills
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Harriet Camac
Harriet Camac
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Aunt Harriett McClintock at her home near Sumterville, Alabama with great grandchildren October 1940
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Mrs. Harriet A. Noyes was criticised. It was thought she was deficient in severity; it would do her good to scold sometimes. She should improve in sitting up straight. She was commended for a spirit that was humble, very accessible, justified and comforted and had hope for those that had sunk low. She was a real spiritual mother and adviser, sought to please God, was very useful to the young, as she influenced by love and attraction, not by legality.

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Harriet Chalmers Adams confidant of savage head hunters
Harriet Chalmers Adams America's greatest woman explorer


Harriet Chalmers Adams
with camel pulling cart, Gobi Desert-

They know very well what they do - which leaves the question of forgiveness somewhat up in the air.

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Oonk:
http://old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/Harriet-Oonk-E.htm.
as opposed to:
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/18400/18467v.jpg
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Fokkers:
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/31200/31290v.jpg
http://www.cafepress.com/uncledean.64097620
http://old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/looping-Fokker-A.htm

and disappeared after reaching the city of Lyon

Where did that waffle come from?