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Clearly, the Count Rumford grave is the University's least used and most unusual property holding. The Count, who was born Benjamin Thompson of Concord, New Hampshire, attended lectures on experimental philosophy at Harvard in the mid-18th century. After spying on America and defecting to England, Rumford conducted pioneering work in the caloric theory of heat. He later served the Bavarian government, receiving the title Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire...
...maybe even with dull teeth, so it would cut even rougher. Liam O'Flynn, on the other hand, prefers to play a tune refined to the ultimate, with the least possible moral disturbance." In the course of the afternoon we learn the pipes were born sometime in the 18th century; the reason, say some, was that the British banned the playing of the war pipes, having enough trouble with their difficult Irish subjects as it was. Others claim the Uilleann pipes, based on French and Italian prototypes, were simply more versatile and better able to manage the complexities of Irish...
...Morricone has been nominated a second time for an Oscar (the first was for Days of Heaven). His score for The Mission, a large-scale parable of clericalism and colonialism in 18th century South America, is one of the loveliest he has ever done. The composer concedes, "This music represents me nearly completely." Says Leone: "It's practically like a sung mass." Morricone's mother, who is 83, has a slightly different perspective. "These Americans!" she said when Morricone's wife Maria called with the nomination news. "It is four or five years that they should have given...
...TRUE that titillating and highly popular biographies of the five women I am studying abound, but no attempt has been made to examine the unique sociological niche they inhabited while at court. My task has been to full that gap in 17th and 18th Century French historiography. All of my sources came from Widener, whose collection of historical manuscripts is probably better than the one at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. I found everything I was looking for in the musty subbasement, as well as a few things which I wasn't looking...
...supposed to circulate, my thesis adviser told me. And I immediately brought the volume back to the Library--half in guilty panic that President Bok would appear at my door with the Ad Board in tow, half in fear of breaking some sort of magical spell. Would an 18th Century book vaporize if left out in 20th Century...