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...Manner; and even less so that he was wholly inept at it. Greece, Rome and Israel were very far from bustling, nouveau-riche young America. Mount, a farmer's boy from Setauket, Long Island (a suburb today, deep country then), was very much part of that America, a country inventor who made his own boats and believed that a "hollow-backed" violin he had designed was better than anything from Cremona. Sensibly, he set out to record (and idealize) what he knew: the everyday rural life that was the protein of Jacksonian democracy at the dawn...
...sites offer free directions and related services and are thriving. During the past two years, the American Automobile Association has recorded a 7% drop in requests for its paper TripTik maps (those handy, personalized route maps that even tell you when you're approaching the birthplace of the inventor of the mechanized reaper), even as AAA membership has increased. A spokesman attributed the dip to competition from the Web, and to the association's Map 'n Go software, a $60 navigation package that can be installed on PCs. If you want to get fancy...
...from a moral and theological point of view. As the American space program began in the '50s, rockets routinely exploded on the launch pad and collapsed into their own ruins like defunct Las Vegas casinos. The nation's leading rocketmeister was the boy wonder of Peenemunde, Wernher von Braun, inventor of Hitler's Vengeance Rocket, the V-2. (I Aim at the Stars was the title of Von Braun's memoir; comedian Mort Sahl's suggested subtitle was "But Sometimes I Hit London...
Emack & Bolio's is the inventor of Oreo Cookie ice cream. And we could tell--it's arguably the best around...
...Crafoord prize, named after the inventor of the artificial kidney, is awarded by the same academy that awards the Nobel prizes...