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757 words, approx. 3 pages 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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414 words, approx. 1 pages 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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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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Things We Wish We'd Never Heard
6/5/2005: 2,754 words, approx. 9 pages [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 heard you …. CRUISE: No, we got here last night. We...


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