Matt14#4D"-.Matt14"cbpbb?bb<TEXTMACA#4-.Packet 14 In 1923, he published his his first book, a collection of sixty-six poems called _Tulips and Chimneys_. Among other genres, he experimented with drama in _Santa Claus_ and even wrote a satyrical ballet called _Tom_. His most substantial works are impressions of Russia in _Eimi_ and an expressionist drama titled _Him_. FTP, name this American writer best known for his memories of imprisonment in a French concentration camp near Paris, which are recorded in _The Enormous Room_. Answer: _e. e. cummings_ In 1855, this volume contained a preface in which the author proclaimed that The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. The first edition contained only twelve poems, but more were later added. The final death-bed edition was issued in 1892. FTP, name this incarnation of the spirit and geography of the United States, whose first and longest poem is Song of Myself. Answer: _Leaves of Grass_ Her portrait was painted by Hans Holbein, and she lived a short life of only 38 years. One of her brothers was the Duke of Somerset, the other was high admiral of England and husband of the widowed Catherine Parr, while her father helped suppress a Cornish insurrection in 1497. She died twelve days after the birth of her son, Edward VI. FTP, name this lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon who married Henry VIII eleven days after the execution of Anne Boleyn. Answer: Jane _Seymour_ As an early Nazi, he was flag bearer in the Munich putsch of 1923. Late in his career, he was made minister of the interior to curb any defeatism, and after the attempt on Hitlers life by the army in July of 1944, he was made commander-in-chief of home forces, into which he recruited mere boys. By swallowing a cyanide phial concealed in his mouth, he escaped justice as the pioneer of the gas oven and concentration camp. FTP, name this head of the SS and Gestapo. Answer: Heinrich _Himmler_ Biologists classify them into groups according to the nature of their thallus or body. Crustose ones grow as a layer on rocks or trees, while foliose ones are loosely attached to the substrate and have thin, leafy thalli. Composed of a ascomycete and a cyanobacterium, the relationship between the two may be thought of as a controlled parasitism. FTP, name these symbiotic associations between a fungus and green algae. Answer: _Lichens_ This novel describes the disintegration of a middle-class family in a small Midwestern town. The father, a minor employee in a drug company, is married to a nagging, ambitious wife, and has a shiftless son. The daughter, who is the title character, yearns for wealth and admiration, but by the end of the book, her hopes are dashed and she climbs the stairs of the entrance to Frinckes Business College. FTP, name this novel by Booth Tarkington. Answer: _Alice Adams_ This region of the suns atmosphere looks darker near the edge of the disk than in the central portion because of an effect called limb darkening. Its temperature ranges between four thousand and six and a half thousand Kelvin, and it is pocketed by granulation. FTP, name this surface of the sun whgich is seen in visible light, from the Greek for light ball. Answer: _Photosphere_ A daughter in the large Claflin family which earned a living by giving fortune-telling and medicine shows, she performed a spiritualist act with her sister Tennessee. In 1868 she went to New York to persuade Cornelius Vanderbilt to set her and her sister up as stockbrokers. It was then that she became involved with a socialist group called Pantarchy and began to advocate free love, equal rights, and legal prostitution. FTP, name this woman who won support from the womens suffrage movement and became the first woman nominated for the presidency. Answer: Victoria _Woodhull_ According to her, meaning emerges not from preconceived design but from the aggregation of details and events that fall into a pattern. In her 1978 work _A Distant Mirror_, she examined the bubonic plague and France in the 14th century. She won her second Pulitzer Prize for _Stilwell and the American Experience in China_, and in 1984, she published the best-selling _March of Folly_. FTP, name this historian of the Pulitzer Prize winning study of World War I entitled _The Guns of August_. Answer: Barbara _Tuchman_ His brother-in-law was Carl Bosch, who helped him with his most important achievment. He became professor of chemistry at Karlsruhe and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1911. FTP, name this chemist who helped Germany overcome a shortage of natural nitrates for explosives in WWI, and won the Nobel Prize in 1918. Answer: Fritz _Haber_ His real name, was Gerhard Kremer, but he Latinized it. In 1552, he became cosmographer to the Duke of Cleves, and in 1544, he had been imprisoned for heresy. In 1537, he produced a map of the Holy Land, and the year before he had made a terrestrial globe. FTP, name this Flemish geographer best known for his map projection used by sailors. Answer: Gerardus _Mercator_ It entailed road and canal construction, high protective tariffs, and development of American agriculture. It had broad appeal and was popular with the Whig party, though it had been rejected when it was proposed in 1824. FTP, name this program proposed by Henry Clay. Answer: The _American System_ In the field of epistemology, he was determined to abolish metaphysical speulation, and his 1897 _Contributions to the Analysis of Sensation_ espoused logical positivist foundations, influencing Einstein, though he is best known as a physicist. His work on the flow of gases and projectiles obtained some remarkable early photographs of shock waves and gas jets. FTP, name this Austrian after whom the ratio of the speed of flow of a gas to the speed of sound is named. Answer: Ernst _Mach_ He first gained fame for his studies of the inequalities in the motion of Jupiter and Saturn. In 1799, he entered the senate, becoming minister of the interior for six weeks, and was created a marquis by Louis XVIII. A footnote in his _Systeme du Monde_ explains his famous nebular hypothesis of planetary origin. FTP, name this Frenchman famed for replying to Napoleons inquiries about God with the remark, Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis. Answer: Pierre Simon de _LaPlace_ They were engraved on the spear Gungnir, upon the teeth of Sleipnir, the claws of the bear, and the tongue of the god of light, Balder. Obtained by Odin after hanging from the branches of Yggdrasil for nine days and nights with a spear in his side, they signified mystery and wisdom. FTP, name this carvings, the earliest Northern alphabet. Answer: _Runes_ In 1893, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined for breach of trust in connection with the abortive French Panama Canal plan. A noted designer of bridges and aqueducts, his most famous creation was constructred for the World Exhibition of 1889, and was the highest building in the world until 1930. FTP, name this designer of the internal structure for the Statue of Liberty, as well as the famous tower on the Champ-de-Mars. Answer: Gustave _Eiffel_ They revere their teacher or guru and accept as their sole religious text the Adi Granth, which is a collection of hymns by early gurus. Fusing Hindu and Muslim beliefs, they worship one God and employ meditation. The faith was founded in the fifteenth century by Nanak, and came to control much of Punjab. FTP, name this religion whose faithful wear long hair, a hair comb, a special undergarment, and a short dagger. Answer: _Sikhs_ or _Sikhism_ The title character has no friends in his hometown of Raveloe, and desires only to add gold to the pile he keeps in his cottage. But he is robbed of his gold and finds a blonde baby girl whom no one claims. He raises her and she brings him into a normal life. Godfrey Cass appears and reveals that Eppie is actually his daughter by an earlier secret marriage. FTP, name this George Eliot novel subtitled The Weaver of Raveloe. Answer: _Silas Marner_ In 1980, during a crackdown on dissidents, he was sent into internal exile in the closed city of Gorky. Here he staged a series of hunger strikes in order to secure permission for his wife Yelena Bonner to receive medical treatment overseas. He won his PhD for his work on cosmic rays, and was the youngest-ever entrant to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. FTP, name this father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Peace. Answer: Andrei _Sakharov_ The second son of Antipater, the procurator of Judaea, he and his elder brother were made joint tetrarchs of that land and Augustus granted him the title of king. He ordered the death of his wife Mariamne and his two sons, as well as every member of the Hasmonean family. FTP, name this ruler of Palestine from whose slaughter of the innocents Jesus and his parents fled to Egypt. Answer: _Herod_ the GreatI Fingerd LogTEXTttxtMatt14MTEXTMACAGTEXTMACA-#4IFlash'em Prefs PREFMcF2  "!CG