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...flooded in the spring and ran dry in the fall. Henry Wallace, of the family that helped revolutionize agriculture, was born down the road and went on to be Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture. Glenn Martin lay on the nearby hills and watched the birds glide and dive, then went off to build his famous airplanes. Jesse James staged his first successful train robbery on the railroad tracks a short way up the line...
...anyone can drive away the 100-odd British ships blockading New York Harbor, it might be a shy Connecticut inventor who has devised a strange new weapon of maritime warfare. David Bushnell, 35, calls it a "submarine vessel," also known as the Turtle. Like that creature, it can dive under water and attack its enemies by surprise. It strikes them with an explosive device that its creator has named, after the electric ray, a torpedo...
...colonial privilege that it has been portrayed, not an opulent anachronism in a world of nationalism. They point to the termites at work on their houses, the jungle growing up to the kitchen door, the "yacht club" at Gatun Lake that amounts to little more than a raft children dive from, while their parents drink beer and cook the family dinner: barbecued Panamanian beef. The club, like the zone's four non-military golf courses, was built by the employees, not the company...
...players. Moshell has scheduled a concert of all-meat and no-down concerti for his swan song. Offering several Brahms lieder as an hors d'oeuvre, Moshell at the piano will accompany soprano Tamara Mitchel '78 who might justifiably view these as warm-up exercises; she will then dive into Wagner's incredibly challenging Prelude and Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde...
...Seven members of the orchestra played the Schleptet in E flat, S.O., by musicologist Peter Schickele, more familiarly known as P.D.Q. Bach (1807 -- 1742), the last and the least of Johann Sebastian's sons. Satirizing serious music, the Schleptet demands a wide range of comic effects, including a nose-dive by the French horn player, which sends fragments of a collapsible horn sailing across the stage into the audience, and woodwind burps usually reserved for a beginner's practice room...