Matt43&KD" ׯ Matt43"cbpbb?bb<TEXTMACA&K ׯ 7IPacket 43 He first achieved success as a playwright with _Lady Frederick_ in 1907, and he followed it with a farce entitled _Jack Straw_. His observations of slums and cockney life formed the basis for his first novel of naturalism, _Liza of Lambeth_. FTP, name this man who was orphaned at the age of 10, the creator of Philip Carey in _Of Human Bondage_. Answer: (William) Somerset _Maugham Like Vishnu Jejjala, this god was a betting man. He gambled with the moon for a seventy-second part of a day, and eventually won five days, which were added to the lunar year to make 365. Known to the Greeks as Hermes Trimegistus, he was alternately represented as having the head of an ibis or that of a dog-headed ape. FTP, name this inventor of arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy, the scribe of the Egyptian gods. Answer: _Thoth_ The title of the book _The Bell Curve_ is taken from the reseach of this man, who showed that mental abilities vary among humans along a bell-shaped distribution. His _Meteorographica_ was the basis for modern weather maps, but he is more famous for devising the system of fingerprint identification. FTP, name this cousin of Darwin and author of _Hereditary Genius_. Answer: Francis _Galton_ Napoleon commission him, along with Thenard, to discover new elements by building a powerful battery, and he beat Sir Humphrey Davy to the discovery of Boron by nine days. In 1809, he found that gases combined in proportions by volume that could be expressed in small whole numbers. FTP, name this Frenchman most famous for his law that gases expand by equal amounts with rise in temperature -- a law Charles also discovered. Answer: Joseph Louis _Gay-Lussac_ He advocated rebellion against the unpopular Sir Edmund Andros, and wrote a biography praising the new royal governor of Massachusetts, Sir William Phips. Receiving his degree from Harvard at the age of 15, he spent the rest of his life as preacher at Bostons Second Church. FTP, name this man whose writings on witchcraft may have fomented the Salem witch trials. Answer: _Cotton Mather_ In Cohens v. Virginia, he wrote that The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. After helping to negotiate Jays Treaty in France, he was elected to the House from Virginia. He presided over the treason trial of Aaron Burr, and it is said that the Liberty Bell cracked while ringing for his funeral. FTP, name this Supreme Court Justice who presided over the Marbury v. Madison decision. Answer: John _Marshall_ Among the American prisoners from this battle were 86 men captured by the 1st SS Panzer division at Malmedy, then lined up and machine-gunned to death. Hitlers refusal to shift his attack to the flank making the best progress was foolish, while his offensive was checked by McAuliffe at Bastogne and Hasbrouck at St. Vith. FTP, name this late 1944 German counteroffensive, the last in the European theatre. Answer: The Battle of the _Bulge_ The outer part of this gland is referred to as the zona glomerulosa (glow-meru-losa), and it secretes hormones called mineralocorticoids (mineral-o-KOR-ti-koyds), of which the most important is aldosterone. Divided into a medulla and a cortex, it also secretes epinephrine. FTP, name these glands, located, as their name suggests, above the kidneys. Answer: _Adrenal_ or _Suprarenal_ Glands His poetry is now forgotten except for The Lament of the Forest, but his paintings are famous. Among them are View on the Catskill, Early Autumn and Schroon Mountain, Adirondacks. From a trip to the Connecticutt River he painted Oxbow, and in 1836 produced the 5 painting series The Course of Empire. FTP, name this Hudson River School artist most famous for The Voyage of Life. Answer: Thomas _Cole_ A young Puritan leaves his wife and goes walking in the woods, where he sees or dreams a Witches Sabbath in which his wife Faith seems to be participating. He also sees the pink ribbon she wore in her hair fluttering down from a treetop. FTP, name this story in _Mosses from an Old Manse_ by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Answer: _Young Goodman Brown_ His _Report on Manufactures_ fostered industrial grown in the new nation, and he wrote political papers like _The Continentalist Essays_ and _Two Letters from Phocion_. Born in Nevis in the British West Indies, he was Washingtons aide-de-camp in 1777 until a private quarrel between them. FTP, name this contributor of 51 of the Federalist papers, the first secretary of the treasury. Answer: Alexander _Hamilton_ Since this mans death in 1964, Kingsley Amis tried to continue his writings in _Colonel Sun_. He served in Moscow as a journalist for Reuters, and borrowed the name of his most famous character from the name of a noted ornithologist. FTP, name this author of _Casino Royale_, the creator of James Bond. Answer: Ian (Lancaster) _Fleming_ This office was ended by the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Egypt in 1517, but had already held no real power since 1261, when al-Mustasim was killed in Hulagu Khans sack of Baghdad. Muawiya was one, while Abu-al-Abbas as Saffah was another -- they established the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties, respectively. FTP, name this title first held by Abu Bakr, the temporal and spiritual ruler of the Muslim world. Answer: _Caliph_ or _Caliphate_ In 1361, he married his cousin, Joan the Fair Maid of Kent, who bore him two sons, Edward and the future Richard II. He restored Pedro the Cruel to the throne of Castille, and took Bertrand Du Guesclin prisoner. In 1370, he sacked Limoges, but he is better remembered for his victory at Poitiers and for commanding his fathers right wing at Crecy. FTP, name this first Prince of Wales. Answer: _Edward the Black Prince_ Quote: Listen, my son, to your fathers instruction and do not forsake your mothers teaching. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. These lines come from a book of the Bible, of which chapter 30 is attributed Agur son of Jakeh, but credit for the rest goes to Solomon. FTP, name this book that comes after Psalms in the Protestant canon. Answer: _Proverbs_ Among its more memorable lines is When my bellys full of wine, kiss my butt I say to the cold weather! Among the Milesian Fables it contains are the story of the Widow of Ephesus and the legend of the Pergamene Boy. Its author was possibly the arbiter elegantiae of Neros court. FTP, name this Menippian story of Trimalchio, written by Petronius. Answer: The _Satyricon_ At the 1816 premiere of this opera, the entire first act was sung over a bedlam of whistles and catcalls, while the gallery mimicked Cesare Sterbini's libretto. Characters include Ambrosius, Don Basilio, Rosina, and Count Almaviva. FTP, what is this opera based on a Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais play, which made Gioachino Rossini famous throughout Italy? Answer: The _Barber of Seville_ or Il _Barbiere di Siviglia_ His father was a tentmaker, and he adopted as his poetic name the designation of his father's trade. He spent his entire life in his hometown of Naishapur, where he studied under the Imam Mowaffak and became known as a scholar and astronomer. He wrote astronomical tables and a book on algebra, but he is best known for a collection of quatrains translated by Edward FitzGerald from the original Persian. FTP, who is this author of the Rubaiyat? Answer: Omar _Khayyam_ A lesser known class in this phylum is Cubozoa, which consists of about 20 species of sea wasps. They have no circulatory system, a digestive cavity with only one opening, and a primitive nervous system. FTP, what is this phylum of hydrozoans, corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish? Answer: _Cnidaria_ (grudgingly accept _Coelenterata_) This mammalian hormone is derived from the amino acid tyrosine, and acts on muscles to transform their glycogen stores into lactic acid. Other effects include release of reserve erythrocytes in the spleen, vasodilation of heart muscle, acceleration of heartbeat, and increased oxygen consumption and blood glucose concentration. FTP, what hormone causes these "fight-or-flight" reactions? Answer: _Adrenalin_ or _epinephrine_ This mathematician lends his name to a type of commutative ring in which every element equals itself squared. Largely self-taught, he did important work in differential equations, but his most important work forms the basis of computer technology. FTP, who is this mathematician, author of _An Investigation of the Laws of Thought_, who created a form of symbolic logic? Answer: George _Boole_ This physicist was appointed professor of natural philosophy at Pavia in 1778. He discovered methane gas and invented the electrophorus, a device to generate static electricity. Inspired by Luigi Galvani, he developed a constant source of current electricity in 1800. FTP, who is this inventor of the electric battery whose name is given to the unit of electric potential? Answer: Alessandro Giuseppi Antonio Anastasio _Volta_ This structure can be built in a permeable aquifer, such as sandstone, that is bounded above and below by relatively impermeable shale aquicludes. If the elevation of the ground surface is lower than the water table of the aquifer in the recharge area, water will flow out of a well spontaneously. FTP, what is this type of well in which water is brought up by its own pressure? Answer: _Artesian_ well This American poet committed suicide in 1972 by jumping from a bridge into the Mississippi river. He wrote the first important critical biography of Stephen Crane and collections of verse including _Henry's Fate_. FTP, who is this confessional poet, author of _77 Dream Songs_ and _Homage to Mistress Bradstreet_? Answer: John _Berryman_F2%H?M,6L> Matt43MTEXTMACATEXTMACA &KJC G7 1' @. &5 *K J: J7Lnetscape/applet/Console;java/io/PrintStream isVisibleLnetscape/applet/ConsoleFr