Franklin Field
Thomas Keske
toying with global destiny
in experiments using kite and key-
a subject matter beyond their reach,
for students who think it their role to teach
They cannot understand
the quick contagion of patriot-flame,
the jokester behind the curtain of chaos,
if they forget how the Field got its name
Didn't anyone realize where they were standing?
Not concerned with rules about standing under trees?
Not aware of the well-chiseled happy clam,
and connections to forgotten history?
Do not moor your ship without anchor weight
Do not make of your Constitution, a trifle
What you justify today, by circularity,
will be solved tomorrow by aim of rifle
Electra brings forth lost Arts of Greece and Rome
Soldiers are strewn across the Field,
conscripted by Indifference into Logic War,
by Reason quelled and forced to yield
After they come to their senses
will it be time for balsam on the wounds,
salved with sorrel leaf and the henbane bud,
drawn to the water in little platoons
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11. Griffith Electric - alt.conspiracy | Goo...
GRIFFITH ELECTRIC. Understanding our world, making sense of it
all... The wars between Mods and Rockers, the electrical storm
at the Lady Foot Locke.
groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy/browse_thread/thread/...
July 19, 2008 11:36pm
Arriving just at the nick of time despite having no idea that
her husband was at the graveyard or even where the graveyard was
since they don't even live in this country, Elaine holds the
well-chiseled happy clam over her head, causing an electrical
storm to flow through the field. Not just any electrical storm,
though -- the longest electrical storm in history.
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14. LIGHTNING STRIKE INJURES 10 - Local News...
Jul 20, 2008 ... at Boston Medical Center this evening. Later
he added, "I've been on the job 27 years, and I've never had
10 people struck by light...
www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/07/lightning_st...
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Gadgets Blamed For Russian Lightning Deaths
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19. The Cosmic Conspiracy : Section I - Chap...
Lightning research has shown that it might be possible
to control lightning ... Conversely, the Russians' recent
occupation of the Bellingshausen Se...
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http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/skc/volts/
A talk given at the day conference Electra:
Electricity in Culture at the Royal Institution
Electric Affinities
Whenever she passed under an electricity pylon, my mother would
hold her breath. I knew enough in my scornful thirteen-year-old
superbia to be able to tell her how quaintly crazy such thinking
was, just as crazy as that of her mother, who thought that one
should never leave unoccupied plugs switched on overnight lest
the electricity should leak out, and spread across the room at
ankle level, in a deadly, prickly, miasmatic carpet. For did not,
does not every schoolboy know that electricity is force, not
stuff, the nature of which is to dart undeflectably to its goal,
following the line of least resistance and at the speed of light,
not to diffuse or linger malignantly in clouds?
Bright Amber shines on his electric throne,
And adds ethereal lustres to his own.
---Led by the phosphor-light, with daring tread
Immortal Franklin sought the fiery bed;
Where, nursed in night, incumbent Tempest shrouds
His embryon Thunders in circumfluent clouds,
Besieged with iron points their airy cell,
And pierced the monsters slumbering in the shell.
"So, born on sounding pinions to the West,
When Tyrant-Power had built his eagle nest;
While from his eyry shriek'd the famish'd brood,
Clenched their sharp claws, and champ'd their beaks for blood,
Immortal Franklin watch'd the callow crew,
And stabb'd the struggling Vampires, ere they flew.
---The patriot-flame with quick contagion ran,
Hill lighted hill, and man electrised man (Darwin 1799, 104-5;
Canto II.6)
Electricity developed a political ambivalence to match its new
two-sidedness. It stood both for the Promethean power of the
fire-stealing individual genius, and for the democratic currents
of fellow feeling. It signified both the hic-et-nunc of
individual revolutionary decision and the ubiquity of
communicated sympathy. as Alison Winter has suggested, the
figure of the musical conductor, drawing and directing the
energy of the orchestra, belongs to this electrical economy
(Wnter 1998, 309-20).
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4 critically injured from lightning strike
(Mark Sudol, NECN) - Ten men between the ages of 13 and 40 were
struck by the same bolt of lightning as they took cover under
the tallest tree at Franklin Field in Dorchester, MA.
Four of the men remain in critical condition after that.
Dangerous lightning strike this afternoon in Dorchester one
medical person we spoke to today said in his 27 years on the job.
He has never seen ten people struck by lightning.
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Database of Greenspaces and Neighborhood...
Homes on Lucerne St. in the Franklin Field area of Dorchester ....
Franklin Field and Franklin Park. Franklin Park itself was named
after Benjamin F...
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OWNERSHIP:
-- Franklin Field (Harambee Park):
City of Boston Department of Parks and Recreation
-- Franklin Field (Public Housing Development):
Boston Housing Authority
The Park forms the northern boundary of the Franklin Field
public housing complex, which is the largest public housing
complex in the Heart of the City. South of the Franklin Field
complex is a neighborhood of two- and three-family homes. The
streets of the neighborhood are not laid out in a grid pattern,
but rather in a complex, looping pattern.
Franklin Park itself was named after Benjamin Franklin. In the
early 1900s, Franklin Field was the most popular playground in
city. The neighborhood as a whole has been described as
"baseball crazy"
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9. Quick Biography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. ....
which verified the nature of electricity and lightning brought
Franklin international..
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Ben Franklin Slept Here | Popular Scienc...
Lightning formation begins when condensation and freezing create
a charge separation in storm clouds, with electrons clustered
near the bottom of the ...
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http://www.benfranklin300.org/event.php?yr=2006&mo=4
The ghost of Ben Franklin can answer hundreds of questions, both
serious and silly, in a real-time exchange called a "synthetic
interview."
The Franklin Institute celebrates Ben's far-reaching, scientific
legacy in the permanent exhibit Franklin...He's Electric!,
located in Franklin Gallery. It's electric. He's electric. And
when you start exploring this hands-on exhibit, you'll be amazed
at what Ben Franklin has meant to scientific history in America.
Explore this old rental house owned by Franklin to find all
sorts of oddities from delicate tea cups to sturdy chamber pots,
a tooth brush and even the skull of a rat who fell into a privy
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newsletterOct2006.pdf
Franklin Field Association
Newsletter
WILD NIGHT AT OUR HOUSE
HOW TRUE IT IS
Another year has passed and we're all a little older. This
summer feels hotter and winters seemed much colder.
I rack my brain for happy thoughts, to put down on my
pad, but lots of things that come to mind just make me kind
of sad.
There was a time not long ago when life was quite a blast.
Now I fully understand about "Living in the Past".
We used to go to friends homes, football games and lunches,
now we go to therapy, to hospitals, and after-funeral brunches.
We used to have hangovers, from parties that were gay. Now we
suffer body aches and sleep the night away.
* * *
We are trying to run affairs for you the membership here in
Massachusetts and we have a problem getting you to come,
"WHY!"The Board would like to have, which is coming up June
2008 our 20th anniversary, But, theres always a but, how many of
our members would attend!
LONG AGO & FAR AWAY
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Reality
owns more
than the rain and the lightning,
it toys with
our puppet-strings,
the teetering scales
of give and take.
Then some joker asked to see the whole thing over.
"I'm bored with the whole shebang. It's no use farming out
miracles if Jansenists like you don't appreciate the task.
Watch with Mother'd be all you could grasp
of magical invocations, no bleeding metaphysics for you."
Anyways, my tricks would have to wait a whiles,
the pulleys were squeaking and those folk back there
in the Theatre of Hate would have no truck
with the scenery of this sad lot.
The whole apparatus was hackneyed mock Egyptian,
and I guess it was then or thereabouts I realised
the moral fabric of society was a bit of a jamboree.
Take that time I'd risen like Horus over the gorgeous
chitterlings of a weathered crowd in Minsk.
I'd rogered the cunts senseless before the curtain dropped.
I was gazing back at my long impervious retinue of shadows,
of burning fields and books, of cobbled paths of muddy skulls,
the balsam of calm in some cell
where snapshots of biddies formed an abattoir of grief,
or that verdigris on kids in the bloated rivers
Chris Emery
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2. Benjamin Franklin: Poems
An index of poems by Benjamin Franklin. ... Benjamin Franklin:
Bibliography - A bibliography of the published works of ...
BROWSE THE POETRY ARCHIVE...
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The Press from her fecundous Womb
Brought forth the Arts of Greece and Rome;
Her offspring, skill'd in Logic War,
Truth's Banner wav'd in open Air;
The Monster Superstition fled,
And hid in Shades in Gorgon Head;
And awless Pow'r, the long kept Field,
By Reason quell'd, was forc'd to yield.
- Benjamin Franklin
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30,000 PERSONS SEE ARMY TEAM DEFEAT NAVY ON FRANKLIN FIELD;
Grizzled Veterans of Uncle Sam's Service Mingle with Youth and
Beauty, While Embryo Generals and Admirals Contest for Football
Supremacy. ARMY VANQUISHES NAVY ON GRIDIRON
the arena was filled. The sun, which paled lamentably at the end
of the first half of the game and seemed to afford the sort of
sympathetic happiness to the Middles, was brilliant at the opening
of the game, and rioted in the challenging hues of gowns and hats
in the stands. The sartorial significance of the Army and Navy game
is always the last call of the season for fur coats
It is notoriously indulgent to owners of festive hats who are
constrained by ordinary football games to leave these treasures
at home. Its color scheme lends itself to extravagant use of
flowers and streamers. And these are the things which make
the picture- at least that portion of it which is independent
of the official trappings and gold lace of Uncle Sam's officers
and their charges, the middles and cadets.
The band withdrew and cheer leaders appeared. That is, a certain
semblance to arms and legs was discernable behind two monster
megaphones
The wiry boy in gray on the south side, whose gyrations
were fearful and wonderful, but who was able to coax
vehement and big-throated cheering from the cadets,
produced his famous "bullet yell". The middles' nimble
little cheerleader responded with the "siren", which he
appeared to grind out of the middles with rapid revolutions
of his arms, as if he were manipulating a street organ.
But these things are not potent enough to focus the eyes
of the Nation, nor to draw to watch their exhibition
the stalwart old heroes whose days are claimed for sterner
practices; the statesmen who must needs to have left the
toy wars to the limbo of foregone pleasures
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FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SHOZI
fran...@staff.mantec.ac.za
(031) 9077146
Frank holds an SSTD, a B.Pead(Sc) and BSc (Hons) degrees which
he obtained from the University of Zululand
Department. Thereafter, in 1995, he was promoted to a
lectureship post for Mathematics to the then Ntuzuma College of
Education, the post that he held until the closure of the
college in year 2000. During that period he tutored at Umlazi
College
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July 4th at the Department of State
Last night was the State Department's 4th of July reception for
the chiefs of diplomatic missions and their spouses. The Head of
Protocol invited me to perform magic at this amazing party with
an Americana theme. The Blue Daze blue grass band and a group of
square dancers completed the entertainment. One highlight was
when a Gambian diplomat helped with a magic trick in Zulu, and
the Georgian Ambassador's wife said the name of her selected
card in Russian. The party took place in the John Quincy Adams
Room and the Benjamin Franklin Room on the ceremonial floor,
which has a balcony that overlooks the Mall. It is a perfect
viewing spot for the fireworks over Washington.
A Visit to the Neurosciences Institute
I just returned from the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, CA.
It is the coolest place! Founded by Nobel Laureate Gerald
Edelman, the institute houses 40 scientists who study the brain
and consciousness in small teams of two or three researchers.
Dr. Edelman's son David, who had invited me, had arranged
meetings with scientists who study the relationship between
language and music, and with experts on spatial memory. I also
visited the workshop of the so-called 'Brain-Based Devices' team
where Battlebots champion Donald Hutson builds amazing robots.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/china06042007.html
About Those North Korean Benjamin Franklins ...
A Drop in the Bucket
By CHINA HAND
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17. Ben Franklin and the Kite Experiment
Almost everyone has heard of Franklin flying a kite with a key
in an electrical storm, ... Ben hypothesized that lightning is
an electrical phenomen..
www.codecheck.com/cc/BenAndTheKite.html
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Woot : Mighty Kite Mini-Kite
Not many people know that the kite was the nuclear bomb of it's
time. The kite ensured air superiority for the Chinese, and with
it, they defeated the...
www.woot.com/Blog/BlogEntry.aspx?BlogEntryId=5202
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44. McDonnell Douglas HEDI
KITE was a rail-launched missile based on the older Sprint
nuclear-armed ABM ... The KITE achieved an acceleration of over
200 G immediately after lau...
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15. KITE Lyrics - by WIGWAM from album NUCLE...
Words Lyrics of the song KITE By WIGWAM from the album
NUCLEAR NIGHTCLUB.
www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/561263.html
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50. NEMA - Nuclear Section
Kite & Key Award. 2001 Recipients. 2002 Recipients. 2003
Recipients. 2004 Recipients ... All equipment, components, and
accessories, used for nuclear ..
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Pakistan Kite Festival Lost to Violence
But even before the recent bloodshed and political upheaval, the
region's kite-flying tradition was threatened.
Religious conservatives oppose the festival because it is a
reminder of Pakistan's pre-Islamic past
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Kite pulls freighter
put this in the category of very neat, somewhat related to
fishing! The key here is that the kite is controlled by a
computer to do figure-8 dancing, which allows a lift to be
generated over the 'wing'. If it works, it would save a lot of
carbon.
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Introducing, Once Again, the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation
This war has been fraudulently without blood. We've been treated
to a daily dose of misery -- the desperate lives of Afghan
people -- but they're now "liberated." So we're to believe kite-
flying girls and clean-shaven men roam Kabul. No more blood. Yet
the bombing continues, and all the real stats and stories are
held up in news rooms, presumably for patriotism's sake.
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21. NEW YORK MUHTARI: May 2007
Keske diger kardeslerim de gelebilse.. ama buna da sukur, ....
Kite Runner was the first novel of Mr. Hosseini and also it was
the first novel in en...
newyorkmuhtari.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html
Kite Runner was the first novel of Mr. Hosseini and also it was
the first novel in english language by an Afghan writer. If you
like the first book, get ready for the second one. he is coming
to town to meet the readers , mark your calendar and make sure
to be there when he starts reading parts from "Thousand Splendid
Suns ".
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19. The Atomic Heritage Foundation - Search
In Robert Jungk's famous book: "Brighter than a Thousand Suns -
A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists"; Harcourt, Inc.
1958, Mr. Jungk refers ...
www.atomicheritage.org/index.php?Itemid=&option=com_search&s...
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Welcome to Kite Circuit
Kite Circuit is a sprawling, microcosmic explosion of colour and
sound that playfully explores the relationship between time and
space by following ni..
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31. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movie...
Kite Circuit" is all about style and flashy pop-art colors that
splash across the screen like a thermonuclear explosion in a
candy factory. There's no...
www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=10206
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39. Esoteric Rabbit Blog
Evan Mather has pointed out to me via e-mail that the folks at
Film Threat have reviewed Kite Circuit. Surprisingly, they've
given it a very flatterin...
www.esotericrabbit.com/blog/?p=667
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The Lost Pictures of Franklin Field
By Bruce Hoff
from SPOOKS!
Franklin Field never touched me. Our shoulders sometimes brushed
as we moved about the room or as we stood, never more than an
inch or two apart, at the window. But he never intentionally
touched me.
I found out more about him. He had a brother he hadn't seen in
years. His mother had died when he was sixteen, the event, I
gathered, that had caused or allowed him to leave Kansas. Like
me, he had grown up in a fundamentalist church. He liked the old
revival hymns. I caught him humming one of them one day: "Oh,
Lamb of God, I come, I come?"
I still didn't know I was in love with Franklin Field, but I
didn't want it to end.
I looked down at my body, sheathed in its dress. Early in the
first week I'd decided that the brassiere I'd been wearing wasn'
t right for the woman in the pictures. The next day I put it in
my bag but didn't wear it, and a few days after that I left it
at home. I don't think Franklin even noticed.
Did Franklin remind me of any other man who had, even for a
moment, fascinated me? No. Tom had been handsome, Clarence
beautiful. Franklin was homely, but he was his own man, unique,
utterly himself.
"Again," I said, my arms spread wide against the wall, my
fingers curled around unseen nails, my head bent to the side as
Christ had bent his in death. The shutter clicked
One day I imagined a picture, standing against the wall blinded,
washed out by the lights. My body would be one with the wall
It was impossible - literally impossible - unimaginable.
A mistake had been made. Somewhere, somehow, there had been
another Franklin Field
On the street, in the misting rain, the cabbie was leaning
against the fender of his cab. "What're you looking for, lady?"
"A man," I said hollowly. "He lives on the third floor."
The cabbie cast a speculative eye upward. "Lady," he said, "that
building doesn't have a third floor."
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And this doling out of didactic history to the young was a meet
and proper thing. Young people ? and not just young Americans -
deserve and require to make the early acquaintance of a Ben
Franklin, say, but they do not, in the beginning, need to know
of his advice on choosing a mistress. Until lately, early
exposure to the lives of the 'good and the great' had the
threefold purpose of inculcating virtue and making the young
free of our common heritage; of at once sponsoring in them an
attachment to the local, to Burke's 'little platoons' of society,
and simultaneously subsuming this attachment in a broader world
beyond their own horizons; and ? with any luck at all - of
predisposing them to care about real, deep, adult biography and
history, where the gilt and the banners are not infrequently
spattered with mud and blood.
For example, I was raised a Southerner of Southerners, and a
Texan to boot. We had our household lars: Patrick Henry and Tom
Jefferson, Washington the remote and marmoreal, earthy Sam
Houston, the rip-roaring Bigfoot Wallace, and of course the
South's King Arthur, R. E. Lee, and his paladins: the parfit
gentil cavalier Jeb, in his cinnamon beard and plumes;
iron-graven Stonewall
For my generation and those that preceded us, Benjamin Franklin
was as much the diligent 'prentice who fled candlewax (and the
dread prospect of the manse) for the intoxication of printer's
ink, quite as much as he was the man on the $100 bill. He stood
for a certain largeness of mind, inventive, wizardly even, a
natural philosopher who dabbled in a genteel way in politics and
in his ripe age became a titan of the Revolution
a man who naturally found liberal-minded Philadelphia more
congenial than crabbed, Puritan Boston.
I am all too familiar with historians of, say, the War Between
the States, who regard it as a period from the 1850s to the
1870s, care obsessively about dubious and unprovable theses
regarding the roles of women (not infrequently spelled 'Womyn')
and gays, and would not know a redan from a lunette and could
not tell you the Order of Battle at Brandy Station on a bet.
Worse yet, they consider the War itself an irrelevance
Men of Good Understanding
Firstly, of course, it is an indescribable relief to spend time,
in these days, with a truly mature mind. Franklin, of course,
who was the original Elephant's Child with his 'satiable
curiosity, is very much the possessor of a mature mind: his
character is of intellectual curiosity and the power of Reason
all compound, with its touch of Leonardo, its family resemblance
to that other smiling rationalist Voltaire
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Benjamin Franklin: A Revolutionary Role
Sparks!
January 14, 2006 - December 31, 2006
http://www.fi.edu
Experience the amazing power of electricity in this live,
interactive, high-voltage show. The electrifying spirit of
Benjamin Franklin comes to life as lightning bolts dance across
the stage, volunteers play with electrical fire and some of
Franklin's most dramatic experiments are recreated before your
eyes.
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The Summer Institute for Youth, a project under the Benjamin
Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative, is a three-week U.S.-
based summer institute ..
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On June 15, the Hillsborough County Commission -- the county
government for the greater Tampa, Fla., -- region enacted a
policy banning county agencies from acknowledging and supporting
gay pride events, despite several impassioned pleas from gay
rights advocates
Pride in Exile was created by Key West Cares About Pride to show
solidarity and support for the citizens of the Tampa Bay-area
following the Hillsborough commission's action.
The celebration of pride is to continue Sunday with an "Exiled
but not Abandoned" special service at Key West's Metropolitan
Community Church, which offers a ministry of acceptance to the
GLBT community. The service is to begin at 10 a.m. at the church,
1215 Petronia St.
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The time is short, but spirits were high in celebration of the
Founder's community at the Ben Franklin
I am very happy to inform you that you have been officially
accepted as an 11th grade student at Howe Military School for
the 2008-2009 school year!" Congratulations Barry. This is a
good example of the doors that open for those that attend BFTF.
Check out the blogs of Great Petronia!
July 17, 2008 - 11:36 am
The Founders have set up blogs for their week 3 project of
running a government of the imaginary country of Great Petronia.
Showing Initiative - Diplomats take DC by Storm
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"Much Blood May be Shed Ere Liberty be Firmly Established":
Benjamin Franklin Bache Defends the French Revolution, 1792-93
Americans keenly followed the events of the French Revolution.
Reactions to the growing violence and social upheaval split
along emerging party lines- Federalists expressed horror while
Democratic Republicans were more sympathetic. Benjamin Franklin
Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was a journalist, the
founder of the Philadelphia General Advertiser
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Jean-Dominique Lebreton
Research Director at CNRS
Member of French Academy of Sciences
Selected publications
Tavecchia, G., R. Pradel, J.-D. Lebreton, L. Biddau & T.
Mingozzi (2002). "Sex-biased survival and breeding dispersal
probability in a patchy population of the Rock Sparrow Petronia
petronia." Ibis 144(2): E79-E87 (online).
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Franklin France : Lightning risk assessm...
In order to make easy your analysis, Franklin France and its
teams propose you the "Lightning ... in an area with structures
or trees of the ... All f...
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5. petronia / yume
Lightning flashes again, magnesium-bright, and a short second
later the growl of thunder overlaps the tenacious music.
www.kekkai.org/sabina/NnY/fiction/gb/musica.html
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20. This Day in History
Government of Petronia falls. 1971 - Birth of Chris Boniol, NFL
kicker (Dallas Cowboys ... 1983 - US performs nuclear test at
Nevada Test Site. 1984 -...
www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/thisday/1209.htm
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. Totally random thoughts: The Law Of Unin...
Because of the hysteria of the '80's, our nuclear industry and
nuclear capacity has ... Petronia - a prayerful sighing of
parents for their children...
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Chronology of World History
May 4
Jeffrey Miller, one of protesting students at Kent State
University, killed by Ohio National Guard. [1]
Sandy Scheuer, one of protesting students at Kent State
University, killed by Ohio National Guard. [1]
Allison Krause, one of protesting students at Kent State
University, killed by Ohio National Guard. [1]
William Schroeder, one of protesting students at Kent State
University, killed by Ohio National Guard. [1]
September 22
US President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for
college campuses. [1]
November 27
Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a
dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. [1]
December 9
Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at age 65. [1]
Dutch Antilles: Government of Petronia falls. [1]
December 12
Louis Zimmer Flem, clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies
at age 82. [1]
Polish government proclaims price rise. [1]
USSR performs underground nuclear test. [1]
December 17
Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike. [1]
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
December 23
7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's Mousetrap (record). [1]
New York World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m). [1]
USSR performs nuclear test. [1]
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16. petronia / yume
No matter gay or grim; it's those tiny little sparks daily life
that makes me forget my wounded heart...
www.kekkai.org/sabina/NnY/fiction/gb/november.html
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8. Taboo, Magic, Sprits: A Study of Primiti...
This was especially the case with the Petronia, a small
tributary of the Tiber. ... The fact that lightning so often
strikes trees and kills persons u...
www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tms/tms09.htm
In the old Roman days auspices were taken by magistrates before
crossing a river or any water which arose from a sacred source.
This was especially the case with the Petronia, a small
tributary of the Tiber
At the Roman Festival of Pales, in April, the farmer, his family,
and his flocks jumped through three bonfires of bean straw
The Romans employed burning sulphur in magic as well as in
religious rites. The reason for its use, in addition to its
apotropaic powers as fire, is probably that sulphur possesses
disinfectant, and medicinal properties, a fact which the Romans
themselves recognized. Moreover, sulphur suggested to the Roman
mind hot sulphur springs and volcanoes and the fears that these
inspired. Again, the Romans believed that thunderbolts received
their light from sulphur and that sulphur fumes accompanied a
discharge of lightning.
The death of the tree foreboded his own death. The fact that
lightning so often strikes trees and kills persons under them
doubtless led early man to fear them.
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17. Franklinian Soccer - Uncyclopedia, the c...
Me on Soccer "Hey! My hair is not that bad." ~ Benjamin Franklin
on Hair "Yes it is. ... It was invented by Benjamin Franklin
sometime before he inven..
uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Franklinian_Soccer
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9. 10 People Hit by Lightning at Boston Soc...
Jul 21, 2008 ... Four people remain in critical condition after
a bolt of lightning struck 10 men watching a soccer game at
Boston's Franklin Field ...
feeds.emsresponder.com/~r/emsresponderrss/top_ems_news/~3/34...
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4. Lightning Soccer New England - Direction...
Dean College is located in Franklin, Massachusetts, 45 minutes
from Boston and 30 minutes from Providence. To reach Franklin,
take Exit 17 from Rout...
www.lightningsoccer.com/directions/directions.html
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http://www.bfit.edu/athletics/index.php
Welcome Shockers, alumni and fans! The Benjamin Franklin
Institute of Technology offers its students the opportunity to
complete in intercollegiate athletics. The Institute, known as
the Shockers, offers men's soccer and basketball competing at
the Division III level. The school has active membership in the
National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) www.njcaa.
org. and participates in Region XXI, comprised of two- year
colleges from the New England region
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Franklinian Soccer - Uncyclopedia, the c...
"Enough of that Bongo! stuff. I wanna play some real
SOCCERRRRRRRRR! ... Franklinian Soccer is one of the least most
popular sports in the world. ...
uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Franklinian_Soccer
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3. Benjamin Franklin - Uncyclopedia, the co...
Franklinian Soccer is much different, it involves bowling pins,
protective helmets, and soccer balls. It is important to
remember Franklin was wacke..
uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
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4. Struckbylightning.org
Some said the lightning sounded like a bomb when it struck the
tree. ... stood at the edge of Franklin Field and near a
sidewalk on Talbot Avenue. ...
www.struckbylightning.org/news/dispIncidentdb.cfm
10 Hospitalized After Lightning Strike Group Was Gathered
Underneath Tree
July 20, 2008 BOSTON --
The massive strike hit the tree before hitting some of the people
undenreath it
The tree also fell after the strike
Some said the lightning sounded like a bomb when it struck the
tree. The bolt, they said, almost appeared to be purple.
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http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/spark.html
So, we're standing outside in the time-frozen world of a raging
thunderstorm viewed from our 1000X perceptual acceleration. The
trees and bushes around us are thrashing frozenly in the stopped
wind
Higher up we see a tangled, branching network of dimly glowing
wiggly purple lines which look something like a tree root. And
like a root, all the tips of the branches are lengthening. But
this can't be lightning, it's dim and purple, not bright
blue-white.
One branch-tip is about a hundred feet up from where we're
standing. We can see that the wiggly line isn't moving, it's
only growing at its tip. It takes a tortuous, kinky path as it
lengthens, and occasionally a new branch starts growing from the
side of the main one at a spot where there is a particularly
sharp bend. Then we notice something else: everything on the
ground is starting to glow. Bits of dim purple fire are popping
into existence on the tops of bushes, the edges of the roof of
the nearby house, the tips of the rooftop TV antenna, on the
ends of all the tree branches, and even on the flying pieces of
roof shingles. As the exploring finger of dim purple lightning
comes downward, the purple "fire" on all the objects becomes
more and more intense. If you hold your hand in front of you,
the tips of all your fingers spout dim purple fire as well.
Now the dim purple lightning from above is about thirty feet
away, and the downward growth of its tip seems to be speeding up.
Then something really disturbing happens. One of the purple
flames coming from your fingers has suddenly started growing
upward as a narrow wiggly violet line! You pull your hand down,
but it's too late, the streamer of purple stays attached and
grows upward fast, it's two feet long by now. You notice that
this purple streamer from your hand isn't the only one, there
are now jagged purple lines growing upwards from many places
which formerly had the little "St. Elmo's Fire" flames. There's
a ten foot streamer coming from the tree, another from the bush,
and a couple from the roof of the house and the TV antenna. They
appear to be moving towards the incoming lightning strike. There
are even several coming from the wind-blown shingles, but some
of these are extending downwards towards the ground while others
grow upwards. The one from you're hand isn't winning, it
apparently had a late start, and the streamers coming from the
tree and the shingles are really shooting upwards now ahead of
all the others. And the downwards-growing streamer from the
shingles has touched the ground and is spreading out into a
small disk of purple rootlets on the surface of the ground.
Finally the upward-growing streamer from the shingles approaches
the lightning streamer coming from above. The two growing branch-
tips race together, and just before they meet they split into
several separate branches which all connect. And NOW it suddenly
looks like lightning, because the entire streamer from the
shingles is glowing brighter and brighter. The little disk of
purple filaments where it touches the ground is now several feet
across and looks like blazing blue-white tree roots. The whole
thing is far too bright to look at, and it's getting brighter
still. And something is happening to you.
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13. The Tesla Purple Energy Shield
The Tesla Purple Energy Shield . Spiritual Technology For Mind
Body And Soul ... The RAD 5 Radionics Machine is a state of the
art remote influence ...
www.lifetechnology.org/hyperspace_offer.htm
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30. CONTROLLING LIGHTNING DISCHARGE WITH LAS...
tive Control of Lightning Discharge by means of Laser Radiation
was held at Sosnovy Bor ... search Institute of the
Ministry of Defense, Russian...
jot.osa.org/viewmedia.cfm?uri=JOT-66-3-181&seq=0
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11. Who Was The Real Dr. Nikola Tesla?
Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla both share honors ... H.W.
Buck: "The work of Nikola Tesla... in his great conception of
the rotary field seems t..
www.ttr.com/Who%20Was%20Dr%20Tesla.pdf
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23. DailyTech - Russian Government Blames Ga...
when I saw "Russians" and "Lightning Deaths" in the same sentence:
Tesla Coils. ... I actually thought weather control device, a
s the Russians aren't ...
www.dailytech.com/Russian+Government+Blames+Gadgets+for+Ligh...
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19. Digg - Nikola Tesla The Man Who Invented...
Everyone should take notice of TESLA. He is perhaps more
important than Ben Franklin within the field of electricity.
digg.com/general_sciences/Nikola_Tesla_The_Man_Who_Invented_...
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4. Russia -- is it headed for dictatorship?...
... Thor (the Scandinavian equivalent) are said to control lightning
and thunder, .... He is likely to use electronic means
to gain control over Rus...
www.revelation13.net/Russians.html
Jupiter relates to the Antichrist, because Jupiter and Thor
(the Scandinavian equivalent) are said to control lightning
and thunder, and the Antichrist is said to bring
"fire down from heaven", which sounds like lightning.
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25. Weather control/warfare quotes
The Russians were here at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
cooperatively working, ... US Department of Defense sampled
lightning and hurricane manipula...
www.whale.to/b/weather_q.html
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8. Dorchester/Fields Corner Franklin Field ...
Dorchester/Fields Corner. Franklin Field. Mattapan. Humboldt Ave ...
Tesla St. River St. Edgewater Dr. River St. Winborough St. River
St. Rosemont St....
www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/WebMaps/7.pdf
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14. TWP - Questions
I've seen the Tesla coils in Boston and I was thinking, has
anyone ever put an ... I am most curious about the Houston St.
lab. - 12/8/98 ...
www.teslascience.org/pages/questions.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Tesla
Tesla made a demonstration related to radio communication in
1893. Addressing the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and the National Electric Light Association, he
described and demonstrated in detail its principles. Tesla's
demonstrations were written about widely through various media
outlets. Tesla also investigated harvesting energy that is
present throughout space. He believed that it was just merely a
question of time when men will succeed in attaching their
machinery to the very wheelwork of nature
Later, Tesla would establish his Houston Street laboratory in
New York at 46 E. Houston Street
In 1882 he moved to Paris, France, to work as an engineer for
the Continental Edison Company, designing improvements to
electric equipment
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
9A00E5D6173DE733A25753C2A96F9C946497D6CF
They've all come to Paris. The Gauls, the Romans, Ernest
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Pablo Picasso, Dwight Eisenhower, the Czar of Russia, Lenin, the
Queen of England, Benjamin Franklin and George Gershwin.
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http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2007/08/on-russian-floating-
nuclear-power.html
On Russian Floating Nuclear Power Plants
Kite, String and Key is getting used to the idea.
Russian Floating Nuclear Power Plants
Last week, in the middle of a three-week period that TNT debuted
"The Company," its Cold War miniseries, pitting the CIA against
the KGB, The Wall Street Journal published an article about a
Russian company's plan to produce ship-based nuclear power
plants.
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11. Crazy And In Charge - TIME
Asked if he was crazy, he replied, with great good grace, "I am. ...
capitalism," he said, "when a man can't fly a midget on a kite
over Central Par...
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,140697,00.html
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http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4961899.html
Multiple-cable connecting device for a nuclear reactor
Document Type and Number: United States Patent 4961899
We claim:
1. In a nuclear reactor, a device for connecting a plurality of
energy conveying lines to a nuclear reactor head structure
comprising:
a kite linkage and two separate unitary parallelogram linkages;
each of the linkages being separately articulated to the movable
connector plate and operating in parallel planes; each said
plane being parallel to the direction of motion of the movable
connector plate; the kite linkage being articulated to the
movable connector plate along a center line thereof, and the two
parallelogram linkages being articulated to the movable
connector plate adjacent opposite edges thereof disposed on
either side of the kite linkage;
the kite linkage comprising first, second, third, fourth and
fifth links and first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth
pivots; the first links being articulated to the movable
connector plate at the first pivot thereon and connected to the
second link at the second pivot; the second link being connected
to the support structure at the third pivot; said first link and
said second link being of equal length; the third link being
connected to the movable connector plate at a fourth pivot
spaced from the first pivot; the third link being connected to
and fifth pivot to a fourth link; the fourth link being
connected to the support structure at the sixth pivot spaced
from the third pivot; the fifth link connecting the fifth pivot
point and the second pivot point; the fifth link being extended
through the second pivot point to form an actuator arm for
extending or collapsing said kite linkage upon applying a force
to said arm; the distance between the second pivot and the fifth
pivot equalling the length of the first link; the distance
between the first pivot and the fourth pivot being equal to the
length of the third link; the length of the fourth link being
equal to the distance from the third pivot to the sixth pivot;
the length of the fourth link multiplied by the length of the
third link equalling the square of the length of the first link;
and
each parallelogram linkage comprising sixth, seventh, eight,
ninth and tenth links and seventh, eight, ninth, tenth, eleventh
and twelfth pivots
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Gay Kite Surfers to Double by 2008 Accor...
Gay Kite Surfers to Double by 2008 According to AKSA ... Gay
Kite Surfers to Double by 2008 According to AKSA. Gay Kite
Surfers to Double by 2008 Acco...
www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/14133005cp.shtml
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4. Gay League - Lightning Lass
Lightning Lass was born on the planet Winath.
While traveling with her older ... She began intense workouts
and severed her relationship with Duplic...
www.gayleague.com/gay/characters/display.php?id=8
Lightning Lass was born on the planet Winath. While traveling
with her older brother Mekt and her twin brother Garth, the three
experienced problems with thier space craft and found it necessary
to force a landing on the uninhabited planet of Korbal.
The three attempted to have the Lightning Creatures found on Korbal
re-charge their ship, but found themselves to be the victims
of their lightning powers instead. All three survived and found
that they had been charged with ability to generate
lightning bolts themselves
Ayla's twin brother joined the Legion as Lightning Lad.
The last writers of the Legion before the reboot,
Tom & Mary Bierbaum, have discussed in later interviews
that Vi and Ayla were indeed written as a lesbian couple,
even though the words "gay" or "lesbian" were never spoken
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46. Gay League - 1990s - LGBT COMICS TIMELIN...
... that reformed villain Lightning Lord is in a gay relationship
and that heroines ... Victor E. Hodge's BLACK GAY BOY FANTASY,
about black gay life ...
www.gayleague.com/gay/timeline/timeline4.php
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11. Lightning rods: did Christianity faultil...
For the longest time, the Christian Church railed against
lightning rods, with predictable results." He links us over to
a site that blares the foll...
www.tektonics.org/lp/norods.html
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4. A Lightning Rod on Gay Marriage, and Her...
A Lightning Rod on Gay Marriage, and Her Split Town ...
has become such a symbol and lightning rod for the national debate
on the question of gay ma...
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07EEDE123EF932A257...
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4. ReligiousLeft.us: Gay bishop lightning r...
Gay bishop lightning rod in Annville.
By CASSANDRA KANE Staff Writer Lebanon Daily News Lebanon,
PA ANNVILLE - Supporters of gay rights outnumbered ...
www.religiousleft.us/2008/04/gay-bishop-lightning-rod-in-ann...
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http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/07/2
To make Lambeth a "success," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan
Williams bravely uninvited openly gay New Hampshire
Bishop Gene Robinson, who is a lightning rod
for church traditionalists
So what is happening at Lambeth, which started July 16
and will drag on until Aug. 3? Nothing!
That's the brilliance of Rowan Williams's vision.
After several days of retreats, the bishops have broken
into "indaba groups" ("a Zulu word for a gathering
for purposeful discussion
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http://acept.la.asu.edu/courses/phs110/ds5/chapter5.html
In fact both versions of Franklin's experiment were quite dangerous,
and in retrospect foolhardy. The first version involved mounting
an iron rod 20-30 ft. high on top of a church steeple
Franklin's prediction was that the cloud would discharge a
bolt of lightning that would travel through the air,
the iron rod, the church steeple and the experimenter
into the ground. In the more cautious, second version of
Franklin's experiment, he described holding a wire insulated
by a wax coating so that the wire--not the experimenter's body--
served as the conduit for the electrical discharge from the rod
to the ground.
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33. LIGHTNING STRIKES CHURCH.; Woman Killed ...
LIGHTNING STRIKES CHURCH. Woman Killed Near Altar
When Bolt Enters Church During Funeral. WEST BEND, Wis., Aug. 7.
-- Mrs. Henry Conrad was struck d...
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0915FD3A5517738DDD
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http://www.abc4.com/content/health/story.aspx?
content_id=e115d40b-686b-43ae-beb4-d3972275e1f8&rss=837
"I was just looking up and just got slammed. It just literally
felt like a big palette of cinder blocks just dropped
on my head." Melissa Fackerell was leaving her South Jordan
church when in a split second she was struck.
"I thought I was dead, because I saw the bright flash
and was thrown to the floor."
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39. Lightning Strikes Preacher Who Asked For...
Lightning ? Miami FB ? Miami MBB ? Florida FB ? Florida MBB ?
Florida St. FB ? Florida St. MBB ? Central Florida FB ?
Central Florida MBB ...
www.local6.com/news/2310988/detail.html
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16. Boy Scouts breaks with Iowa United Way |...
... of controversy surrounding "lightning rod" issues
of homosexuality and religion, Brandon said. ...
N.C. Bullying Bill Dies Over Gay Controversy .....
www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid10861.asp
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50. Lightning Kills Scout, Troop Leader in S...
Lightning killed a Boy Scout leader and a teenage Scout
as their troop scrambled for shelter during a storm in Sequoia
National Park, authorities said...
articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/30/local/me-lightning30
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The Trilateral Center: Benjamin Franklin...
On the contrary: the seedtime of the French Revolution was
during Benjamin Franklin's ministry to France--and that American
was the seed-planter. ....
www.belcherfoundation.org/trilateral_center.htm
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16. Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia, the free encyc...
... is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take
for a king ... Viereck, George Sylvester, and Nikola Tesla,
"A Machine to End War - A...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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9. DARK ENERGY - Tesla's Flying Machine
How Nikola Tesla intended to depart through a window, sitting on
a gas stove, flying from N.Y. to Colorado Springs...
www.fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/tesla-flying-machine/Tesla-a...
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39. Flying Saucers UFOs and Dr Nikola Tesla ...
Jul 10, 2007 ... Often the UFO (space ship) will glow purple,
green, orange, or red. ..... BTW Tesla's machine didn't fly by
pumping air, it flies b...
www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=68551
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38. TESLA - The Poet of Electricity
Tesla, a handsome, eccentric Serbian genius who, though not gay,
thwarts the ... Important Story - The story of Nikola Tesla
transcends the American D...
www.mecfilms.com/tesla/
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42. glbtq >> social sciences >> Tesla, Nikol...
... current system used in modern electric power generation,
Nikola Tesla exhibited no sexual interest in women, which ... of
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, ...
www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/tesla_n,2.html
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5. purple-lighting on deviantART
Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art,
skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography,
poetry / prose. Art p..
purple-lighting.deviantart.com/
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17. Benjamin Franklin (Franklin, Benjamin - ...
Franklin believed the schools of his time were out of date. They
taught only the classical languages, theology, and preparation
for the ministry.
www.lycos.com/info/benjamin-franklin-franklin-benjamin-scien...
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http://www.debatescoop.org/story/2007/7/27/13113/0784
But what is a good question? Which of the questions in Monday's
debate were better and which worse? Our students and faculty at
the Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative and the Wake
Forest University Debate program set out to answer just that
question and we have some interesting, albeit preliminary,
answers.
Finally, for the patient who have not already clicked off to the
full results page, a drum roll and the best and worst questions
according to our study (go ahead to the results page to see the
embedded video with the precise scores for all 41 questions) :
Best: CNN's question 9: Is it OK to cite religion as a reason to
deny gay rights?
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www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tms/tms09.htm
We have remarked, further, that the Romans considered water
sacred, whether as spring, river, sea, or rain. The reason for
this, as in the case of trees, may be partly the fact that
primitive man associates motion of any sort with animate life.
The Romans used water from springs and from running streams to
wash away the evil effeas of contact with persons and things
possessing a mysterious power to harm
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http://www.love-poems.me.uk/franklin_benjamin_on_the_freedom_of_
the_press.htm
This Tree which Knowledge so affords,
Inquisitors with flaming swords
From Lay-Approach with Zeal defend,
Lest their own Paradise should end.
Benjamin Franklin
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http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/hotc/DisplayPlace.asp?id=11561
Franklin Field/ Harambee Park:
Harambee Park, known to most residents as Franklin Field, is
located at the intersection of Talbot and Blue Hill Avenues. The
Park forms the northern boundary of the Franklin Field public
housing complex, which is the largest public housing complex in
the Heart of the City.
Arbutus/ Balsam/ Lucerne Streets:
In 1977, Arbutus and Balsam Streets were described as the most
blighted streets in the Franklin Field neighborhood. Today,
these streets have rows of neat new homes, several of which were
built by Habitat for Humanity in the 1980s
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http://www.metacrawler.com/metacrawler/ws/results/Web/
Harambee%20lightning/1/0/0/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_
iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true
HARAMBEE SCHOOLS KENYA
Registered UK Charity No 1078592
We have put up lightning conductors since the school was struck
(hurling teachers and students across the ground)
Water is so precious here that the tank may be open to local
abuse, so we have entered into discussions with the local
community as to how they are going to manage this resource
effectively.
Further down the hill on the arid and dusty floor of the Rift
Valley is Kamathatha Primary School which has been totally
renovated thanks to two former Volunteer Teachers
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1. Arbutus
The guides told us impending lightning made the stones chat and
clatter, clacking ... But lightning isn't born of the nimbus.
The stones sing ...
www.arbutus.net/poetry/rebeccaseiferle.htm
The guides told us impending lightning
made the stones chat and clatter, clacking
in that meadow, at 14,000 feet, the rocks
shifting restlessly, shivering against one
another, tapping one another into sound,
in the gathering embrace of an electrical
storm. If our hair should rise into a sudden halo,
we should fall to our knees upon the ground.
But lightning isn't born of the nimbus. The stones sing
because electricity is rising from the earth?fingers
of invisible light, unseen streamers, rising
out of everything that is.
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5. III.10 - _The Last Man_ by Mary Shelley ...
I am a tree rent by lightning; never will the bark close over ...
passed under an ilex--many times I have supped on arbutus ...
I found the granaries ...
www.rc.umd.edu/editions/mws/lastman/iii-10.htm#sail
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http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/skc/volts/
[A] manifest example of the virtue of electricity was shown in
the balsam of Peru, which was so concealed in a glass cylinder,
that, before the excitation of it, not the least smell could by
any means be discovered. A man who, having a pain in his side,
had applied hyssop to it by the advice of a physician,
approached the cylinder thus prepared, and was electrified by it.
The consequence was, that when he went home, and fell asleep, he
sweated, and the power of the balsam was so dispersed, that even
his cloaths, the bed, and the chamber, all smelled of it. When
he had refreshed himself by this sleep, he combed his head, and
found the balsam to have penetrated his hair; so that the very
comb was perfumed. (Priestley 1767, 147)
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4. YouTube - ben franklin vs 9/11
recent political event and their effect on the fundamental system
of government that is the American experiment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVr4n4SKrhs
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www.brainyhistory.com/events/1773/september_11_1773_42906.ht...
September 11, 1773 in History
Event:
Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
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19. Sept. 11 lecture focuses on thunderstorm...
CONTACT: GARY GALLUZZO 300 Plaza Centre One Iowa City IA 52242
(319) 384-0009; fax (319) 384-0024 e-mail: gary-g...@uiowa.edu.
Release: Sept. 4, 2...
news-releases.uiowa.edu/2002/september/0904kurtz-lecture.htm
Sept. 11 lecture focuses on thunderstorms and lightning
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1. Close Lightning Strike Caught On Video -...
This lightning strike was taken on the one year anniversary
of Sept.11 2001.
The significance of this date needs no explanation !!
The bolt hit a ch...
www.mthurricane.com/September_11_2002_Lightning_Strike.htm
Notice the American Flag at half mast because of the anniversary.
Getting a close lightning strike on tape is rare enough,
but on such a historic day with the American Flag at half mast
makes this video truly Amazing !!
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36. Lightning: Lightning rookie takes contro...
Lightning rookie takes control Center Alexander Svitov l
ooks to overcome professional and ... Svitov moved to Tampa
this month, bunking with fellow Ru...
www.sptimes.com/2002/08/06/Lightning/Lightning_rookie_take.s...
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Urban Dictionary: dead presidents
When most of us really want to get "paid in full",
we're after a specific kind of Dead Presidents aka "Benjamins"
referring to Benjamin Franklin who ...
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead+presidents
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http://bang.rice.edu/include/KTRUFallFolio2007.pdf
Houston has long
been considered one of the true homes
of the blues. Legendary blues guitarists
Albert Collins and Lightnin' Hopkins called
Houston home, and the city also played a
part in the biographies of Leadbelly, Guitar
Shorty and Townes Van Zandt
The old and new faces of
blues-based music are worn by Houston's
two most famous groups: ZZ Top and
Destiny's Child.
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29. Doomsday - The Electrical Connection
... 17th, Houston: A southwest Houston woman died in a lightning
strike while ... 2004, Phoenix, AZ: The Palo Verde Nuclear Power
Plant shuts down, ca...
www.rense.com/general54/dooms.htm
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26. Houston refinery crane collapse kills 4 ...
... one of the world's largest cranes collapsed at a Houston ...
Lightning Strike Injures Construction Workers ...
Nuclear launch crew falls asleep
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25740023
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http://www.industrialinfo.com/showAbstract.jsp?newsitemID=133419
SUGAR LAND--May 23, 2008--Researched by Industrial Info Resources
(Sugar Land, Texas)--Dominion Resources Incorporated's (NYSE:D)
(Richmond, Virginia) Millstone Nuclear Power Station in
Waterford, Connecticut, shut down Unit 2 on Thursday, May 23, 2008,
after an apparent lightning strike.
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18. White Sands Missile Range
That picture was taken Sept. 11.
The exposed footing is still visible at ground zero.
www.wsmr.army.mil/pao/TrinitySite/trinph.htm
The automatic firing device was triggered from there as key men
such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer,head of Los Alamos, watched.
None of the manned bunkers are left.
The test was scheduled for 4 a.m. July 16, but rain and lightning
early that morning caused it to be postponed. The device could not
be exploded under rainy conditions because rain and winds would
increase the danger from radioactive fallout
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=
9A00E5D6173DE733A25753C2A96F9C946497D6CF
PEACE CONGRESS AT LUCERNE.; Large American Delegation --
Speech by Chinese Applauded
LUCERNE, Sept. 19. -- The Universal Peace Congress began its
sessions to-day in the theatre of the Kursaal, with 340
delegates in attendance, in the large American delegation are
Rabbi Louis Grossman of Cincinnati, Benjamin Franklin Trueblood
of Boston
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http://www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/2008/03/what-does-the-bible-
really-say.php
What Does The Bible Really Say About Homosexuality?
I think Benjamin Franklin punched the issue right in the nose
when he wrote, "Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but
it is forbidden because it is harmful." The fact is that it
seems like most Christians need to step back from their Bibles,
take a deep breath, and just ask themselves what the issue
really is here.
Jesus had it right. The bottom line is this: who is being
oppressed and persecuted? Who is getting hurt? Rape is bad?it
hurts people. Pedophilia is bad?it hurts children. Violence is
bad. Killing is bad. Starvation is bad. Lying is bad. Stealing
is bad. War is bad. Racism is bad. Sexism is bad. These things
hurt people.
And homophobia, too, is bad. It also hurts people.
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9. Gay Rights and the Constitution
The Gay Rights Controversy. The issue: Does the Constitution
protect ... Justice Scalia, in his dissent, accused the Court of
"taking sides in the c..
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/gayrights.h...
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Findlaw.com: Bowers v. Hardwick
(a) The Constitution does not confer a fundamental right upon
homosexuals to ... or "implicit in the concept of ordered
liberty" is, at best, faceti...
laws.findlaw.com/us/478/186.html
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http://www.sodomylaws.org/bowers/bowers_v_hardwick.htm
See generally Survey on the Constitutional Right to Privacy in
the Context of Homosexual Activity, 40 U. Miami L. Rev. 521, 525
(1986). Sodomy was a criminal offense at common law and was
forbidden by the laws of the original 13 States when they
ratified the Bill of Rights
Against this background, to claim that a right to engage in such
conduct is "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition"
or "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty" is, at best,
facetious
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http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2004/10/
And Ben Franklin sketched the odds, warning that the
Constitution "can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done
before it, when the People shall have become so corrupted as to
need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
How might that happen? "History does not more clearly point out
any fact than this, that nations which have lapsed from liberty,
to a state of slavish subjection, have been brought to this
unhappy condition, by gradual paces," wrote Founder Richard
Henry Lee.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/120525.asp
He ended our short conversation by quoting Benjamin Franklin:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporaray safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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7. Lightning Association Constitution
International Lightning Class Association. Constitution. ARTICLE
I - NAME ... The Constitution, By-Laws, Rules Governing All
Sanctioned Lightning Clas...
www.lightningclass.org/technical/constitution.html
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6. Ride The Lightning: TALKING TURKEY: GIVI...
Ride the Lightning: Electronic Evidence" is a blog by Sharon D.
Nelson, a noted ... Our Constitution is riddled with bullet
holes and we are apparentl..
ridethelightning.senseient.com/2007/11/talking-turkey.html
I received an e-mail from the ACLU reminding me that we need to
give thanks for (and protect) our much beleaguered Constitution.
There is a connection to electronic evidence here ? the fact
that, through warrantless searches which I believe are flatly
unconstitutional, the U.S. government has a great deal of
evidence about many of us.
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12. Turn Left: Liberal Unfriendly Places - C...
Cobb County, Georgia (unfortunately a suburb of Atlanta) is a
very bigoted ... for those of us who were distressed by Cobb
County's anti-gay resolut..
www.turnleft.com/places/cobb_county.html
Cobb County, Georgia (unfortunately a suburb of Atlanta) is a
very bigoted,Republican county. It is the home of Newt Gingrich
(Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives). And the County,
a couple years ago, passed a resolution officially 'comdemning
the gay lifestyle'.
Need more be said?!
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Discovery Institute Lies about the Cobb ...
Dec 13, 2005 ... With the appeal of the Cobb County disclaimer
sticker being heard on Thursday, ... Truth wins in a fair fight,
Ben Franklin said. ...
www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/12/discovery_insti.html
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24. Lightning strikes Cobb buildings | ajc.c...
Two lightning strikes within a half hour had Cobb County
firefighters scrambling ... The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Published on: 07/10/08 ..
www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/07/10/cobb...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/10/08
Two lightning strikes within a half hour had Cobb County
firefighters scrambling Thursday evening.
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17. Candidates battle for Ga.'s gayest congr...
Jul 11, 2008 ... Hutchins does not support gay marriage as a
state recognized entity, but supports civil unions and vowed to
fight any Constitutiona...
www.sovo.com/2008/7-11/news/localnews/8844.cfm
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3. Fishing " Constitution Club
Constitution Club. Legal Seafood; Tear down these ads! The union
has spoken. Posted in Economics, Fishing, Liberals, Political
Correctness by E the Wi..
constitutionclub.wordpress.com/category/fishing/
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http://blog.oup.com/2008/01/constitution/
Constitutional Theory Does Matter
Whether theories of interpretation matter depends partly on what
they seek to accomplish. If Fish offers a theory of
interpretation that claims to describe the nature of
interpretation, as he does, he seeks to influence at least what
his readers believe about interpretation. Fish does more than
recommend something to others' beliefs, however. He offers a
prescription for their conduct. He says, in effect: "If you want
to interpret the Constitution, you have to seek the intent of
its authors." He therefore assumes that some people will want to
interpret the Constitution and that he can influence what these
people do. If Fish thinks theories of interpretation don't
matter, we don't see how he could explain his own conduct as a
theorist of interpretation.
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18. Inuyasha1771 on deviantART
FISH WERE ELECTROCUTED AND MURDERED BY THE ELECTRICITY COURSING
THROUGH THE WATER AND THE LIGHTNING POUNDED VIOLENTLY FROM THE
DARK WATERS THAT ENDLES...
www.inuyasha1771.deviantart.com/
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http://www.love-poems.me.uk/biography_franklin_benjamin.htm
Famous Poems
Benjamin Franklin
Death is a Fisherman a poem by Benjamin Franklin
On the Freedom of the Press a poem by Benjamin Franklin
Wedlock a poem by Benjamin Franklin
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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/archives-
lightning-safety.htm
A: Swimming during a thunderstorm is one of the most dangerous
things you can do. Lightning regularly strikes water, and since
water conducts electricity, a nearby lightning strike could kill
or injure you.
Any time you hear thunder, or see lightning, you should get out
of the water and into a safe place. A picnic-type shelter is not
a safe place in a thunderstorm. Instead, you should be in a
building with walls, or a metal vehicle.
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http://www.livescience.com/history/060117_ben_franklin.html
Swim fins
An avid swimmer, Franklin was drawn to water at a young age and
consistently promoted the healthy benefits of the exercise in
his later writings. At the ripe old age of 11 he invented a pair
of fins that, unlike today's modern flippers, were strapped to
the swimmer's hands to help make each stroke more efficient. His
contributions to the sport led to his posthumous induction into
the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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A Hot Time at Franklin Field
God only knows what the University is. receiving overall. It
shouldn't accept any ...... Bottled water was placed beneath
each seat on Franklin Fiel..
www.upenn.edu/almanac/v42pdf/052896.pdf
Bottled water was placed beneath each seat on Franklin Field.
The graduates used bottles to combat the roasting rays, taking
refreshing gulps of water and soaking each other playfully
with the cool liquid.
Although the graduates goofed off and had a good time,
they also listened intently to the speakers, who urged them
to put their education to good use in a world desperate
for leaders, desperate for change.
These efforts look to the broken places of the world and
seek to fix them. In the process, professors, students,
people with AIDS, neighborhood people, weave their lives
together in complex and textured fabrics, createing more
vibrant communities that enriches them all. Being part of
such a fabric can buoy you up, carry you through those
long, chilling nights that must, inevitably, come to us all.
And, if some night, you do wake up filled with fear,
even though you have been striving to repair the world,
remember, you are not alone. Some of your favorites professors
will awake with you.
G-d speed and G-d bless.
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Poet's Postscript
Ten people got hit by lightning, in Boston. My bad.
I accept full responsibility.
Stop laughing, you calloused bastard! This is serious!
People died, here!
I suppose that I should try to be half-way serious- it is just
so difficult in a world of sheer, random madness.
Probably, most poetry-readers around the country
didn't realize that the July 19 fantasy about an electrical
storm (Griffith Electric) was followed by a front-page headline
in Boston about a dramatic lightning strike on July 20.
I thought that something might happen, but wasn't really
expecting it to be a news headline.
I would try not to make light of lightning, or people's pain,
but either 1) there is a method to the world's madness, and
there is really some meaningful purpose, which redeems all
destruction, or 2) there is no meaning in Life, whatsoever, so
you might as well enjoy whatever bitter laughs-in-the-dark
you can get. The light at the end of the tunnel
is probably just the headbeam an oncoming train.
When I started "Griffith Electric", the previous week,
I did not know the weather forecast for the week ahead.
Even a few days, before, the forecast said only something like
"chance of scattered thunderstorms" - nothing unusual,
nothing dramatic.
I was half-expecting, though, that something was going
to happen on Sunday, simply because I had written a poem.
I was not sure exactly what was going to happen. I was swimming in
a pond, wearing flippers (which I did not realize that I owed
to Benjamin Franklin). I knew that I really shouldn't be there,
when the sky was rumbling. I thought vaguely that maybe *I*
would get hit by lightning and that this might be my dying day.
Somehow, I knew, though, that in spite of the risk, I was
perfectly safe. I just knew. When I got home, I was told
that a dramatic bolt of lightning had been very near the house.
That did not surprise me, but I felt that was more symbolic than
threatening.
I was vaguely afraid that Bill Griffith, the cartoonist,
might die, not that I would have wanted that for any
reason. Sometimes, a poem reflects something that you
want to happen, other times, what you merely see happening.
I was afraid that he might be in danger for having criticized
Bush, which is something that a person should do only in
bravery, not in naivety. I was afraid that he might be suckered
by the "free speech" mythology of our country, and not realize
the danger in mocking power, these days.
William F. Buckley died, 10 days after I compared him to a French aristocrat,
who got knifed by a peasant. That one, I admit, probably would have been my
intent. Not my deed, just my subconscious intent.
It has become a central theme of my beliefs, to suspect that intent *alone*
can produce eerie effects in this world. It makes no sense to me
that this should be true. I merely *discover* that is true, in spite of its
being so counter-intuitive and lacking in scientific basis.
Actually, there *is* a bit of scientific basis- the Princeton studies, for
which I had volunteered, before they were closed down by a scientific
version of "political correctness". They are only missing out on one of
the most fascinating aspects of human existence.
I stopped being surprised by anything that ever happens,
in 1994, to be exact.
That was the year that I stood in the kitchen and announced
that I was going to make a plane crash in Washington, D.C,
to prove that I could create effects with my mind.
I only half-believed myself.
The headline, the next morning, was about a small plane
crashing on the White House lawn. I gasped and sputtered,
I thought this must be some kind of elaborate joke. That it
hadn't really happened, that they made this up in the newspaper,
like some kind of Candid Camera gag.
I was not so much surprised that it happened. I was surprised
that something like this had happened yet *again*. The odds against
coincidence were *already* astronomical, from too much history
to even attempt relating, here.
September 12, 1994. The date seems like some kind of
foreshadowing, in retrospect, doesn't it? I didn't remember that
this had been a September day, until just this morning, when
I Googled to see what year that had been.
In July-Aug of 2001, I mocked the ever-present ear of Big Brother,
how a gay man could hijack a commercial airliner and crash it
into the Pentagon. Just that such a thing would be possible.
I didn't even blink, when I read about a plane crashing into
the Pentagon, a month later.
It is all quite impossible, but for perspective, take a look above you.
You see that bright, yellow-orange, glowing thing?
No, I am not talking about a UFO. Just the sun, shining in the sky.
That, my friend, is also "impossible". You have a better philosophical
appreciation of reality, when you realize that simple fact.
It only seems normal, only because you are used to seeing it, everyday.
Why should it be there? If you travelled space, you would find that
space is 99.999+% empty vacuum. Why should that particular location
not also be empty vacuum?
You don't know, our best scientists do not *really* know. Even
if you call it "quantum fluctuation", you cannot find a physicist
who really knows why "quantum fluctuation" should be the
nature of reality.
If I had a big ego, I would probably think that I am a "prophet",
while others might equally laugh and say "schizophrenic delusion"
- in spite of all demonstrable, wild coincidences- while others would
say "Devil-possessed".
I think that all of that is backward superstition, or narrow-minded
scientific "know-it-all" attitude that fails to appreciate Life's mysteries
and our lack of knowledge.
I can only theorizing, but my personal leading theory is that
this phenomenon of "altering reality by conscious intent" is ultimately
one of Nature's clever illusions, like the sun seeming to revolve around
the earth, or the moon seeming to follow you, when you walk.
In quantum physics, they say that photon or electron does not
*have* a definite position until you measure it.
Not that we don't *know* it, that it doesn't *have* it. I am not completely
sure how physicists can tell the two situations apart, but they
believe that they do.
The electron exists more in a kind of probabilistic "cloud". The photon is more
like it is following *all* possible paths, until you look at it.
That is where I being to speculate, in extension: Where does
human consciousness exist?"
Perhaps it exists in a "cloud" of possible worlds. Thinking about one,
or putting your intent on one, makes you move toward that one.
Not because you necessarily even wanted that possibility.
Because you put your attention on it.
Even if it is ultimately just a flattering illusion, like
the earth-centric universe, sometimes in practical effect,
a good illusion is just as good as the real thing. We all
know that the sun doesn't really revolve around the earth,
but what practical difference does that make in our lives?
The sun might as *well* revolve around the earth.
It is just a theory. There are others. Maybe it *is* all
just wild coincidence. Maybe it is "God* working a "miracle"
for some purpose, to warn the world that it must change
its ways.
Maybe sympathizers in the intelligence world,
or unknown poetry fans in a Gay Mafia who read the poetry
and try to make it seem true, to "help", without my knowing.
I suspect that is probably not the answer, though. I have said
before, by the time that people finally become convinced that
I must be part of a shadowy, super-terrorist network, then I will
really blow their minds, by creating effects that are beyond
human power. Not to boast- this is just what it has been, and
is sometimes a bit scary/depressing, even to me.
I think that I am a bit like Harriet Tubman, humble slave, who also
had many connections to things paranormal- you really should
read the story.
If *I* got hit by lightning, as a homosexual, I am sure that
religious fundamentalists all over would feel very validated,
that this must be God's wrath against the heathen. I can hear
them. "God, God, God, God, God..".
The minute that a Church gets hit, or a Boy Scout troop leader
gets hit.. Oh, well, then it must be the Devil.
Or a coincidence."
Couldn't possibly be the obscene situation that our Churches,
which pretend represent the moral best, to be leaders
and teachers, are at the forefront of promoting hate.
Maybe it is even enough to make "God" sick of it and
demonstrating the need for change.
I don't doubt that most people would laugh at the idea of
a poem creating a lightning strike, but most people probably
laughed when I wrote the first poem about a crane collapse
in New York. They probably laughed less after the second
crane collapse in Florida, and even less after the third in
York, or the fourth in Houston.
Probably, by then investigators were very seriously suspicious
and imagining that they were within inches of getting to the
bottom, in short order. No one says anything, but probably
I have been considered a "person of interest".
They have no concept how interesting it all is. The crane
collapses did not surprise me, at all.
Maybe I just realized that there was a suspicious pattern
of crane accidents, after the very first crane accident,
and was a bit ahead of the game in that insight ;-)
In the literal, everyday sense of reality, I had absolutely
nothing to do with the crane collapses, any more than
the death of William F. Buckley, or lightning strike on
Franklin Field. Or, for that matter, the death of the 118
men on the submarine Kursk.
I had been writing submarine poetry, and trying to create
mischief aboard a submarine - actually, a rebellion by
gay sailors, sick of Navy homophobia. I am still waiting
for that one, like Waiting for Godot.
I wouldn't even remember that there were specifically
118 men on the Kursk, if I didn't feel some connection
to them. When travelling abroad, I wear a Russian Navy
watch with a blue faceplate that imitates the appearance
of ocean. In St. Petersburg, Russia, if you walk across
the bridge on the Neva River, from the Hermitage,
there is a musty, little naval museum. Nobody else went
there from my group, but I was drawn there like a magnet.
Shortly after the Kursk, I found myself talking to a man
who had been in the Russian Navy. He claimed to be too
upset about the Kursk to want to talk about it, but I suspected
that this was what was really interesting to him, and he
just didn't want to be that obvious.
I feel about the men of Kursk exactly what I feel for
the men on Franklin field or who died in crane accidents.
I have no connection other than "paranormal". I regret
the deaths, but do not apologize for them. My perspective
is that I am in a kind of war, as real as any war that
has ever been, involving as much risk to self
as to anyone else. I feel exactly what a commander in the
field would feel about the boys fighting for him, that
get slaughtered, or for the boys among the "enemy", who
he knows are not really all that different than the boys in
his own unit. I imagine that most military commanders
must wonder sometimes if they are justified to do what they
do, if the motives for the war justify the destruction.
In Boston, I recall a get-together at a Church on Tremont
street. Then-Governor Romney, also by then a Presidential
candidate. was there. Speakers referred to the word "gay"
as a "misnomer"; that we were "sodomites" and
"abominations" having a "vile affection".
Romney said nothing in protest. It should have been a scandal,
like rhetoric about "God not hearing the prayers of Jews".
The media reaction was nothing. Barely even reported it.
The political reaction was nothing.
The public reaction was nothing.
Make no mistake about this, people: everybody in the city
can die. Everybody in the country, everybody on the planet.
This kind of thing will change, or the war can be to the
extinction of the species, if this is the best that we can do,
after all this time.
When I write poems about "nuclear", I really mean "nuclear".
Trust me, it really can happen, like magic.
Please try to avoid it.
You should see foreshadowing of it, in things like the
poem about control rods, that was followed by a malfunction
of control rods at La Salle nuclear reactor.
I would have nothing "literal" to do with those events, either,
but I would have a connection to them as with the cranes-
unfathomable, even to me.
I don't believe that any this would be "evil". You have a
choice. Laugh, now, while you can, and die when you
run out of time, or change into a more enlightened way
of doing things. It is not an option.
Just have to follow some important safety rules. Do not stand
under a tree during a lightning storm; look both ways when
crossing a street; do not look the other way, unconcerned
and thinking yourself uninvolved, when your fellow human beings
are being oppressed.
Tom Keske
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