february 16 question dump

- father worked in bogs
- death of a naturalist
- irish
- translated beowulf
SEAMUS HEANEY

- carries out aerobic reactions
- marsh gas output
- no peptidoglycin
- extremofiles
ARCHAEA

- commentaries on gallic war
JULIUS CAESAR
- ap urbe condita?
LIVY
- governor of numidia
- wrote of catiline conspiracy and jugurthine wars
SALLUS

- thoughts of laughter
- direct realism
- attacked berkeley and spoke for the vulgar
- induction is impossible
SCOTLAND
- david hume

- poet of ithaca and waiting for the barbarians
CONSTANTINE CAVAFY
- the greek passion
- last temptation of christ
- zorba the greek
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
- nobel prize for action este
ELYTIS

- swallowed rays of sun
- washed ears of donkey
- wrote 500 characters
- "he who knows does not speak"
- tao te ching
LAO TZU

- middle ground between tough and tender
- if god satisfies us, it is true
PRAGMATISM
- pluralistic universe
WILLIAM JAMES
- animal runs around a tree
SQUIRREL

- transcribed by schumann
- one called the hunt
- detachE style
- devil's chuckle (13th), with trills
- recorded by itzhak perlman
- rachmaninoff wrote variations
- paganini
24 CAPRICES

- winning side aided by polish, innocent xi
- winged hussars, kara mustafa
- sobieski defeats ottomans
2ND SIEGE OF VIENNA

- quantization of charge
DIRAC EQUATION
- speed of light is constant
- time dilation
SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- wave function letter
PSI

- with m cells and p cells
- geniculate nucleus
- tapedum lucidum
- horizontal and amikine cells
- tays sachs
RETINA

- orange marsupial
CRASH BANDICOOT
- orange fruits named for island
- 100 for extra life
WUMPA FRUIT
- boss drops tnt crates
RIPPER ROO

- poster of snoopy
- trail of phone rings
- chapter titles tell story
- analytical "lotaria"
- man reading tell novels
- about "you, the reader"
- calvino
IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER

- convention army captured
- victory for horatio gates
BATTLE OF SARATOGA
- gentleman johnny
JOHN BURGOYNE
- fort near oriscani
- site of treaty with iroquois
FORT STANWIX

- opera about one-man army
- desolee
- man disguises as rebel in el capitan
- washington post, liberty bell
SOUSA

- tricked into drinking wine
SINBAD
- elephant-eating birds
ROC
- wise bird
- rescues zal the albino
SIMURGH

- discredits natural theology
- says things exist in space
- refutation of idealism
- clarified in prolegomina
- metaphysics must stick to a priori ideas
- immanuel kant
CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

- poem of madeleine and porphyro
EVE OF ST AGNES
- ode on a grecian urn
JOHN KEATS
- companion "thy high requiem"
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE

- i and i, separated by tree
- self-protrait with spanish flu
- red-haired woman vampyr
- the frieze of life
- man grasping face on bridge
- norwegian expressionist
EDWARD MUNCH

- philip the arab
- sponsor of zurvan zoroastrianism
- fell at cadicia
SASSANID DYNASTY
- heraclitus invaded armenia for them
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
- region ruled by safavids, parthians
IRAN

- dominant at low reynolds numbers
- amontan's law: independent of area of contact
FRICTION

- boiling point
- related to volatility
VAPOR PRESSURE
- alternate to clausius-caperon equation
ANTOINE EQUATION
HENRY'S LAW

- seven manifestations of evil
- drinking song
- woman knocks down portrait
- magical rose? of agathe
- max gets magic bullets
- opera by carl maria von weber
THE FREESHOOTER

- demonstrating innate knowledge
MENO
- divine of human talent of poet?
ION
- defence of corrupting the youth
APOLOGY

- colony at seurat
- acquired bombay in catherine of braganza's dowry
- malacca
BRITAIN

- antiparticle of positron
ELECTRON
- 173.3 gev quark
- shortest lifetime of the quarks
TOP
- one quark and one antiquark
MESON

- confession from count fosco
- protagonist on archaeological dig
- man stealing laura's fortune
- woman escaped from asylum
- wilkie collins
WOMAN IN WHITE

- prelude from building of the boat
- tone-poem in lemankainen suite
SWAN OF TUANELA
JEAN SIBELIUS
- based on maeterlinck play
- characters at spinning wheel
PELIAS AND MELISANDE

- most are juhal, some are ukal
- epistles of wisdom
- sixth fatimid caliph (disappeared)
DRUZE

- pansy is the daughter of madame merle
PORTRAIT OF A LADY
- washington square
HENRY JAMES
- incurable disease
- kate proy and martin dansher plot for money
WINGS OF THE DOVE

- legendre p/5 shows divisibility
- hilbert's tenth is unsolvable because of these
- binet's formula
- ways to tile with dominoes
- f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2)
FIBONACCI NUMBERS

- successor of novotny
- resigned from hockey riots
ALEXANDER DUBCEK
PRAGUE SPRING
- peaceful revolution
VELVET DIVORCE

- married a woman with a child
- lord of biscay
- 30,000 residents of limoges were killed?
- died in plague
- poitiers, crecy, calais
- successor to edward iii
EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE

- the tower mountain
- mondego river
- coimbra and figuera de faz
- south known as algarth
- duro river
- capital with bieksa and alphama
- earthquake in 1755
- tagus river

- not transduction or transfection
CONJUGATION
- plasmid
F (OR FERTILITY) PLASMID
- featured in bioshock??

- syncretism in religion of java
- islam observed
- anti-anti relativism
- thick description
- interpretation of culture
- deep play: notes on the balinese cockfight
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
- some nice puns

- banned from men's club over spitoon incident
- tarpan restum
- passersby call the man reinhart
- golden day with mr norton
- enemy of dr bledscoe, caribbean man
- stealing electricity
INVISIBLE MAN
- ralph ellison

- epicurus accused
- petronius executed
PISONIAN CONSPIRACY
- emperor made horse a consul (not caligula)
- blamed christians for the great fire
NERO
- epic about pompei in lesbos: pharsalia
LUCAN

- why do we complain of nature?
- exiled to corsica
- on the shortness of life
- man asks to be deified
- the pumpkinification of claudius
- involved in pisonian conspiracy
- stoic, committed suicide
SENECA THE YOUNGER

- house of asterion
- the zahir?
- book of infinite pages
- unifinished novel is the same as labyrinth
JORGE LUIS BORGES
- ficciones

- loves the daguerrotypist
- leaves her country for hepizibah
PHOEBE PYNCHON
- novel of colonel pynchon
HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
- marble faun, birthmark
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

- intervention in pullman strike
- front porch campaign
- mckinley wins
1896

- animism and egocentrism
- ages 2 to 7
PRE-OPERATIONAL STAGE
- four-stage swiss psychologist
JEAN PIAGET
- concept with glass of water shape
CONSERVATION

- eats dog meat
- beheading contest with demon
- foster brother ferdiad
- killed guard dog and offered to serve in place
- fought mab
- cattle raid of cooley
CUCCHULAINN

- declining lubeck merchants
BUDDENBROOKS
- death in venice
THOMAS MANN
JOSEPH

- kapusczinski equation
- decreases with ionic radius
- reaction of metal and nonmetal
- born haber cycle gas phase
- symbol u
CRYSTAL LATTICE ENERGY

- painting of black-hat man
- upturned mustache
LAUGHING CAVALIER
- artist of gypsy girl
FRANZ HALS
- honeysuckle bower
- hippopotamus hunt
PETER PAUL REUBENS

- father of moab and hamon
- chooses land
- offers daughters to mob
LOT
- saves angels from rape
- looked back and wife turned into pillar of salt
- seduced by his daughters (drunk)

- 1997 mars mission
- paired with sojourner
PATHFINDER
- saturn orbitted
CASSINI and HUYGENS
- uranus and neptune
- twin went to titan
- sounds of earth
VOYAGER II

- spectraline in lithium test
- missing link between big planets, red dwarfs
- failed stars, no hydrogen fusion
BROWN DWARFS

- sculpture in world war one memorial
TABLE OF SILENCE
- romanian sculptor
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI
- metallic animals
BIRD IN SPACE