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Scott M. Wilds letter to "Sir or Madame," January 30, 1979
No full textReference letter from Ohio Historical Society Research Assistant Scott M. Wilds identifying and describing a fragment copy of a page of a longer letter by William Lloyd Garrison, then and now housed in the Benjamin Lundy papers at the Ohio History Connection. Wilds provides more content for the letter and announces that it will be included in a reprint book out shortly from Belknap Press.
Wilds' context for the Garrison letter fragment is as follows: "would like to know that we have identified this letter. It is from William Lloyd Garrison to the President and Members of the Anti-Slavery Reunion Convention, June 5, 1874. The convention, which Garrison did not attend, met in Chicago on June 9, 1874. The full text of the letter is printed in the Chicago [underlined] Inter-Ocean, June 10, 1874."
Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Cinq années de voyage en Orient 1846-1851 par Israel-Joseph Benjamin II, voyageur et auteur, demeurant à Faltischan (Moldavie). Paris en vente chez Michel Levy Frères, rue Vivienne, 2 bis 1856 L' auteur se réserve le droit de traduction et de reproduction
No full textPreface: by Benjamin, J.Dedication: by the author to M.J. Altaras aîné de Marseille et M. Albert Cohn.Content description: Detailed contentsPagination: PP28+240PVolumes: 1Text Genre:Pros
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, July 21, 1896
No full textResponse letter from R. Williams to Susan M. Wierman [sometimes spelled Weirman] following up on a visit from photographer M. Wooley, presumably to snap photographs of Susan and the Lundy home to accompany Williams' biographical essay on Lundy. Williams sends along Wooley's letters and requests additional information from Ms. Wierman about the life and times of some meeting houses significant in the life and times of her father, anti-slavery activist and abolitionist periodical publisher Benjamin Lundy. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, March 23, 1896
No full textLetter from R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, spelled Weirman by R. Williams), daughter of Benjamin Lundy, concerning Williams' plan to visit Mrs. Wierman to take photographs for a forthcoming article on the life and times of Lundy, to be published in a Chicago newspaper. Williams describes previous visits to Wierman, and makes notes of the resources, publications and repositories he has used in compiling his study of Lundy thus far. He also makes requests of Mrs. Wierman for a sketch of recollections about life with her father and her own involvement in the abolition movement. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Nietzsche's Nihilism in Walter Benjamin
No full textIl libro ricostruisce gli elementi che Walter Benjamin riprende da Nietzsche nel definire tanto la sua teoria dell'arte di avanguardia che il suo approccio alla azione politica. Il lavoro vuole definire la linea eccentrica del discorso filosofico di Benjamin nella rappresentazione del moderno come "luogo di catastrofe permanente", in cui egli tenta di superare il nihilism nietzscheano attraverso la "debole speranza messianica". Il libro analizza le figure che Benjamin usa nel Passagen-Werk (Baudelaire, Marx, Aragon, Proust e Blanqui) come allegorie per spiegare molti aspetti della modernità. Il carattere distruttivo del moderno è un concetto che Benjamin riprende in parte da Nietzsche, in parte da Marx, in parte da Scholem e dalla mistica ebraica. Il libro si sofferma sulla metodologia benjaminiana di "strappare" immagini e concetti dal loro contesto per ricomporli in un discorso filosofico del tutto diverso.he book recontructs the lines of Nihilism that Walter Benjamin took from Friedrich Nietzsche that define both his theory of art and the avant-garde, and his approach to political action. It retraces the eccengtric route of Benjamin's philosophical discourse in the rapresentation of the modern as a place of "permanent catstrophe", where he attempts to overcome the Nietschean Nihilism through messianic hope. The book analyses how Benjamin's Arcades Project uses figures as Baudelaire, Maex, Aragon, Proust and Blanqui as allegories to explain many aspects of modernity. The author argues that Benjamin uses Baudelaire as a paradigm to emphasize the dark side of the modern era, offering us a key to the interpretation of communicative and cultural trend of today
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, September 9, 1895
No full textShort note from Lundy biographer R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, "Wiederman") concerning Williams' proposed return visits to Wierman's home in Clear Creek, Illinois. Williams explains that he had intended to visit with a "Col. Plumb"; but Plumb is elderly and had fallen ill. Williams proposes hoping to visit solo in months to come, and asks after the dates of the local Friends Quarterly Meeting. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Estimating vertical profiles of ice water content and snowfall rate from radar measurements in the G-band
No full textWe present theory and simulations to show that at
frequencies of order 200 GHz (G-band) the radar cross sec-
tion (σr) of ice particles larger than ∼ a quarter wavelength
(0.375 mm) is nearly directly proportional to their mass (m).
Hence measurements of radar reflectivity (Z) at this fre-
quency are directly proportional to the ice water content
(IWC), with no other assumptions about the shape or breadth
of the particle size distribution required. For the same rea-
son, vertically pointing Doppler velocities at this frequency
provide the mass-weighted mean vertical velocity of the par-
ticles, and the product of Z with the mean Doppler velocity
(MDV) is proportional to the snowfall rate (S). This presents
the opportunity for straightforward and accurate retrievals of
ice microphysics.
We explore the sensitivity of such retrievals to the scat-
tering model for ice particles. We find that all seven mod-
els examined, four with random orientation and three with
horizontal orientation, have σr ∝ m in this regime, but that
the coefficient of proportionality varies between models. The
dominant factor controlling this coefficient is the mass-size
relationship for the ice particles, and specifically the mass
of a wavelength-sized ice particle. If this information is
known, or can be assumed, then the ice population param-
eters above can be retrieved with high accuracy. For mass-
weighted mean diameters Dm > 0.5 mm the variation in the
IWC–Z relationship is within ≈ 30 %, and the variation in
the S–(Z × MDV) relationship is within ≈ 15 %.
The method is applied to retrieve IWC and S during two
case studies, with measurements from the GRaCE 200 GHz
Doppler radar at Chilbolton Observatory in the UK. In the
first of these case studies, retrieved snowfall rates from par-
ticles falling aloft in a precipitating ice cloud were com-
pared to gauge data at the surface. In the second case study,
retrieved ice water contents from a deep non-precipitating
stratiform ice cloud were compared to measurements made
using an evaporative water content probe on board the Facil-
ity for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) BAe-
146 instrumented research aircraft. In both cases a statisti-
cal comparison was necessary because of imperfect coloca-
tion of the radar measurements and in-situ/gauge sampling.
The measurements fall within the distributions of the re-
trieved water content and snowfall fields, and follow consis-
tent trends with time (Case 1) and height (Case 2), providing
evidence that this method produces realistic retrievals.
Application of the same technique at even higher radar fre-
quencies would allow clouds with smaller particles (e.g. in
high altitude cirrus clouds) to be characterised. Because of
the increased gaseous attenuation at such frequencies, the latter may be more practical from airborne or spaceborne platforms
Generosity Across the Income and Wealth Distributions
No full textPoliticalEconomy|PublicFinanceDespite widespread interest, there is little systematic evidence on the relationship between income, wealth, and charitable giving. Although the media suggests that the well-off are stingy, the misuse of data, incomplete controls, inappropriate empirical specifications and a lack of accounting for the influence of outliers make these claims questionable. In this paper, PERC��������s Mary Julia and George R. Jordan, Jr. Professor of Public Policy Jonathan Meer and co-author Benjamin A. Priday use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide descriptive statistics on this relationship. The authors find that, irrespective of specification, donative behavior increases with greater resources
Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA
No full textLaborThe Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 made significant changes to the rate structure of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, including the near-doubling of the standard deduction. Many taxpayers who normally itemize their tax returns and deduct the amount given to charitable institutions are expected to switch to using the standard deduction. In working paper 1917, PERC��������s G.R. Jordan Professor Jonathan Meer, along with co-author Benjamin Priday, investigate the Act��������s effects on charitable giving using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
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