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Einstein vs. Diplodocus.(Editorial)
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A friend faulted me the other day for my slap-dash computer skills, disbelieving that I could not perform certain functions that he found to be part-and-parcel of his daily routine. "I don't have to use those things, so I haven't bothered to learn them" was my retort. He then quizzed me about using features on the telephone system; my response was the same.
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In a momentary fit of pique--some would argue, incoherence--I then compared myself to the late genius, Albert Einstein. I recounted the story of Albert's need to call home from ...
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The Peaceable Kingdoms of Edward Hicks.
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...to be. She wondered why Hicks painted so many over a period...Weekley concluded that while Hicks may have started out painting...Hicksites," led by his cousin Elias Hicks, who urged members...impassioned. Edward and Elias Hicks were in the thick of...
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A NEW RETROSPECTIVE OF EDWARD HICKS.(DAILY BREAK)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...TIMES WILLIAMSBURG -- EDWARD HICKS, the early 19th century painter...prophecy for the hereafter. In Hicks' depiction, fierce animals...Quakers like Hicks and a cousin, Elias Hicks, who was also a minister...worldly life refused. Neither Elias with his preaching nor Edward...
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Hick's Pride
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...offensive to those of us proud to have the Hicks surname. The Hicks family has a long and noble tradition and includes such people as Robert Hicks, who came to Massachusetts in 1621; Elias Hicks, the famous Quaker preacher; Edward...
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 "St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)")
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ILLINOIS DEATHS.(Metro)(Obituary\Clyde R. Manley, Mae Myrtle (Plato) Milner\Elsie B. Vaughn, Agnes C. Lechien\Edward Phillip Florreich, Anna M. Falcetti\Madeline (Mandy) L. Burcham, George Edward Fiddelke\Agnes (Cowden) Hiatt, Eunice A. Ahlers\Roland D. Hicks, George Birdsong\Donna Lee (Lyerla) Bryant, Rosa L. Kelley\Rev. Rose Lackey Dayka, Robert D. Holt Sr\Louis J. Mifflin)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
; ...Visitation 9-10 a.m. today at Elias-Smith Funeral Home. Burial...choice. GODFREY Roland D. Hicks, 48, died Monday. Funeral 11 a.m. today at Elias-Smith Funeral Home. Burial...the children of Roland D. Hicks. GRANITE CITY George Birdsong...
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Unfriendly Fire
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Weekly
; ...energy on either side of the aisle." It started with Elias Hicks (an older cousin of Edward, the painter), an itinerant...Long Island who was born in 1748. From about 1819, Elias Hicks traveled from meetinghouse to meetinghouse in Philadelphia...
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Free For All
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...somewhat faulty. The term "hick" predates the development of...Society of Friends, led by Elias Hicks. In about 1828, this group...have evolved into the term "hick," since that term was already...hicksville." -Norman L. Hicks Mais Non, M. ShalesNon, non...
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Whitman's sailors and other friends.(Essay)(Walt Whitman)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
; ...his poetry, his prose works (which include essays on Elias Hicks and George Fox), his personal conversations, and even...after publishing essays about the great Quaker preachers Elias Hicks and George Fox, Whitman was still railing that too many...
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Walt Whitman: he was a liberator of people and culture, using a liberated poetic form. (Articles).(Biography)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...was electrified by hearing a sermon by Elias Hicks of the Quaker Church on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn. (Hicks's faith in the human spirit was so radical...inherent relations," and that in this, Hicks was "a brook of clear and cool and ever...
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American Vistas, West and East / Hicks' folk `Kingdoms,' Obata's quiet landscapes at de Young.(DAILY DATEBOOK)(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
; ...Peaceable Kingdom" by Edward Hicks (1780-1849). That Hicks made more than 60 paintings by...native Pennsylvania. His cousin Elias led the unorthodox faction known...Indians with a scene of his cousin Elias expounding, there is little doubt...
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A Poet's Spiritual Magnetism.('Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples')(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Chronicle of Higher Education
; ...family's tradition, the poet imbibed the teachings of Elias Hicks, who believed that "there is that of God in every person," Robertson says. "Whitman called Hicks the most democratic of the religionists." Robertson...
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