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Semaphore

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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 example, to signal the driver of a train that the track ahead...
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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 telegraphs that he called the semaphore. His system consisted of...
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Hecate
Semaphore.
10/01/2003: 115 words, approx. 1 pages
Semaphore To Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 When most other writers were concerned with people plot, and problems you took off, wrote bravely of 'moments of being', you said, 'blown like an old flag', by your novels. And illuminations, intuitions light and mood and life which...
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The Independent - London
A subtle form of social semaphore
02/05/2002: 665 words, approx. 2 pages
IT WILL already have been a busy day for me by the time you read these words: champagne breakfast, presents to unwrap, that heart- stopping moment when a torrent of cards spills joyfully through the letter-box on to the mat. There is nothing...
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The New York Observer
Schumann\'d5s Genoveva at Bard; Mozart Politicized by Sellars
8/20/2006: 1,081 words, approx. 4 pages
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 than Bard SummerScape, whose guiding spirit is Bard College president Leon Botstein,...
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The New York Observer
Schumann's Genoveva at Bard; Mozart Politicized by Sellars
8/20/2006: 1,081 words, approx. 4 pages
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 than Bard SummerScape, whose guiding spirit is Bard College president Leon Botstein,...
 


 

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