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Captain Cartwright and his Labrador journal
No full textFollowing several years as a captain in the British Army, in 1766 George Cartwright became a first lieutenant on the Guernsey and sailed to Newfoundland with the future Governor, sailing around the northeast coast. His next trip to the island was in 1768, as part of an expedition to establish relations with the Beothuks. In 1770 he moved to Labrador to begin business as an entrepreneur and trader, and started to cultivate a very good relationship with the natives of Labrador. During the sixteen years he spent living in Labrador, Cartwright kept a journal; this is the abridged version of that diary: "...I [Charles Townsend] have reproduced the Journal without any changes... omitting only the unimportant details and the mass of repetition." (preface) -- Includes a poem "Labrador: a poetical epistle" (p. 363-372). With an introduction by Wilfred Grenfell.Includes reproduction of title page of original edition, Newark, Eng., 1792, with title: "Journal of transactions and events, during a residence of nearly sixteen years on the coast of Labrador; containing many interesting particulars, both of the country and its inhabitants, not hitherto known." (p. 1.)Includes bibliographical references and index
The metaphysics of dappledness: Charles S. Peirce and Nancy Cartwright on the philosophy of science.
No full textContemporary philosopher of science Nancy Cartwright (b. 1944) has raised many an eyebrow with her books How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983) and The Dappled World (1999), among others. The primary task of this dissertation is to link her philosophy with that of Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914)—a link that includes Duns Scotus. My focus is especially on the criticism Peirce would have of Cartwright, and on the philosophical support he can offer her. The question is this: Given her stated philosophy of science, to what else must Cartwright be philosophically committed? This includes discussions of metaphysics, scholastic realism, laws of nature, and the very possibility of science. There are many striking similarities between Peirce and Cartwright, but I argue that he sees further and deeper into the metaphysical implications of her views on science.Graduat
RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving
No full textThis is the final study in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving) which investigated the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues relating to academic author self-archiving of research papers. It reports the results of a survey of 542 academic authors showing the level of protection required for their open-access research papers. It then describes the selection of an appropriate means of expressing those rights through metadata and the resulting choice of Creative Commons licences. Finally it outlines proposals for communicating rights metadata via the Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
Charles Cartwright and Frank Nicholson on horseback
No full textNicholson, the Swede Kid, on Buster or Golden Plume (owned by Dr. Macabie). "Charlie" Cartwright was owner of Windsor Hotel in Athalmer
Letter from Charles F. Blankenship, Medical Director, Retired, Department of Health and Human Services to Assistant Surgeon General, Leonard Bachman, Division of Hospitals and Clinics, Department of Health and Human Services, August 12, 1981
No full textLetter from Dr. Charles F. Blankenship recounting his participation in the medical component of the forced evacuation of 120,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans from the West Coast to internment camps early in 1942.In 1942, Charles Blankenship, a physician with the U. S. Public Health Service and medical consultant for the Service Command, United States Army in the San Francisco Regional Office, was given the assignment to inspect all Japanese American incarcerees from the Southern California sector for medical conditions before or as they entered the Santa Anita Racetrack Assembly Center, and later Manzanar, Gila River, and Rohwer incarceration camps
Charles Parker: Radio Pioneer
No full textSean Street delves into the archive of one of the most innovative and controversial BBC radio producers, reviewing Charles Parker’s work from the Radio Ballads to his sacking in 1972.
Parker was born in Bournemouth on April 5th 1919 – the son of a redundant railway clerk who sold paraffin from a handcart – and died in 1980 on the same day as John Lennon. For a man who revolutionised radio production, who is still talked about and revered today, his death was hardly reported in the press.
He is probably best known for his series of eight radio ballads made with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. These programmes became a high point in radio production but they eventually became expensive luxuries that could no longer be afforded. He was "sacked" or "left" the BBC in 1972.
Now in Parker’s centenary year, Bournemouth University’s Emeritus Professor of Radio, Sean Street, reviews the life of an icon in the radio industry who, according to fellow producer Michael Mason, was "a real creative genius… his razor blade was like a sculptor’s chisel, releasing the hidden poets in people". Talking to family, friends and those who worked with Charles Parker, Sean explores his radio productions and ideas on preserving the oral tradition as he delves into a rich archive of material - creating a portrait of a master magician in radio.
Parker’s life was also a journey from poverty to Cambridge University, from a Conservative Christian to a Socialist, from a Submarine Commander to a Radio Producer. But throughout his career, two things remained constant - his dedication, often working for days without sleep, and most importantly his desire to tell the extraordinary stories of ordinary people in their own words.
Producer: Andy Cartwright
A Soundscape production for BBC Radio
The Production and Reception of a Mandaic Incantation
No full textChapter from: Häberl, Charles G. (ed.) (2009). Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 35), 130-148
The Relative Pronoun d- and the Pronominal Suffixes in Mandaic, in Journal of Semitic Studies 52.1 (2007): 71–78 (Manchester)
No full textThe enclitic pronominal suffixes in Neo-Mandaic are affixed to nouns and prepositions via two separate strategies. Nearly all nouns and prepositions inherited directly from Classical Mandaic take pronominal suffixes directly. All loanwords, and an extremely circumscribed set of original Mandaic words, receive pronominal suffixes after an enclitic particle, –d-. Rudolph Macuch suggested in his Handbook of Classical and Modern Mandaic that this particle is derived from the Classical Mandaic relative pronoun, d-. The evidence, however, suggests that this particle is an innovation, which ultimately derives from the metathesis of the final two root consonants of Classical Mandaic qam / qadmia ‘to, for’ (Neo-Mandaic qam / qamdi-), from which it spread by analogy to new lexical items.This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in The Journal of Semitic Studies following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Charles G. Häberl. The Relative Pronoun ḏ- and the Pronominal Suffixes in MandaicJ Semitic Studies (2007) 52(1): 71-77 doi:10.1093/jss/fgl038 is available online at: http://jss.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/1/7
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Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textTranscript of an unsigned letter to Charles Moore announcing that the author has heard of Josephus Moore's death and Charles arriving at the home of the author's father
Charles B. Moore Family papers, 1832-1917
No full textTranscript of an unsigned letter to Charles Moore announcing that the author has heard of Josephus Moore's death and Charles arriving at the home of the author's father
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