Semaphore
Traditionally, a semaphore was an apparatus featuring colored lights and mechanical arms, which allowed for simple visual signals to be conveyed from a distance. Such a device was used, for ...
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Semaphore
To meet the need for swift communication between Napoleon's (1769-1821) far-flung armies in the 1790s, the Frenchman Claude Chappe (1763-1805) invented an optical-relay system of visual tele...
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The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of Western classical music. For some time, no festival has been more avid in pursuit of the unfamiliar...
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The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of Western classical music. For some time, no festival has been more avid in pursuit of the unfamiliar...
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As a not-so-newly divorced woman with an eight-and-a-half-year-old daughter, I have lately developed a habit of grilling married couples with the same intensity and awed fascination that I imagine ...
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[From The Oprah Winfrey Show, May 23, 2005.]TOM CRUISE: I'm gone. I don't care.
OPRAH WINFREY: Are you sleeping? Are you getting enough sleep?
CRUISE: No, no, I'm not.
WINFREY: No, no, no. I hea...
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Semaphore
Semaphore
Schumann\'d5s Genoveva at Bard; Mozart Politicized by Sellars
