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...Last autumn an unidentified bomber roared over County Wexford in neutral Eire, suddenly dumped its bombs, killed three young girls. Later Germany admitted that part of its Luftwaffe might have lost its way. Since then the drone of unidentified planes has frequently troubled...
...great music. When you or I listen to the Nutcracker Suite, we have a vague picture of toy flutes, Chinamen, Arabians, sugarplum fairies--anything the program tells us to hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there are created whole new imaginative worlds of dewdrops, mushrooms, tadpoles, thistles, and autumn leaves. The more visual-minded you are, probably the more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly in the Bach Toccata and Fugue. To many, the swirls, squirls, blobs, and blotches of color...
...autumn of 1917, in Smolny Institute in Petrograd, Nikolai Lenin quietly said: We shall now proceed to construct the Socialist State...
...autumn of 1924, in Landsberg Fortress in Bavaria, Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf: I, however, resolved now to become a politician...
Only one person was killed, little serious damage done. Severe quakes of the kind that ravaged Rumania last autumn are caused by gradually built up stresses and sudden slips along faults (fractures) in subterranean rock. They typically occur in geologically "young" regions where mountain building or volcanic activity are common. The rocks of the northeastern U. S. are old, have long since settled down to geological sleep. No major stresses and slips can occur...