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...hairy moments on the third day, when Rodgers shot a fantastic 30 on the back nine (par 35) to take a two-stroke lead, while Jack faltered to a bogey-filled 75, ended just a stroke ahead of Doug Sanders and two shots in front of Arnold Palmer and Welsh man Dave Thomas...
...higher, are not prohibitive, and there is something to satisfy just about every taste. In the middle ground between classical music and rock 'n' roll, both of which abound in European record stores, are Portuguese fados, Neapolitan tenors, Scots pipers, Spanish flamencos, German beer songs, French chanteuses, Welsh miners, nightclub and music-hall performers, tin ny little village bands and Tyrolean yodelers. There are even some familiar U.S. singers (and songs) in unfamiliar languages...
...German Physicist Philipp Lenard wrote a paper describing how the splashing of falling water charges the surrounding air with electricity. Recently, Welsh-born Physicist Edward Pierce decided to check out Lenard's theory that each waterdrop's skin of negative ions is stripped off and discharged into the atmosphere as the drop breaks up when it hits a surface. At first, Pierce haunted waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley. Suddenly he realized that "many of Lenard's experiments could be performed in a bathroom, and have indeed been constantly operating in American bathrooms...
Dunn teaches one undergraduate course: Celtic 100. "Celtic Literature in Translation." Some undergraduates also attend his courses in Middle Irish, Early Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic...
...Harvard, Dunn had taught Celtic Literature in Translation, Middle Irish, Early Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and seminars on Middle Celtic. He won't say how many languages he can speak or read. "But if I were isolated on a desert island," he speculates, "I would quite naturally study whatever was at hand, I suppose...