Bird of Passage doesn't so much exist in this setting, but mine it for everything it's worth.
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Bird of Passage manages to find a way to fit that experience into a single session, while also tying it into the narrative.
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The Voisin brothers built another aircraft, to be called the Farman II, incorporating refinements of the design to Farman's specification. Voisin later sold this aircraft to J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon."Brab's" First Flights, Flight, 28 May 1964, p. 895. Brabazon subsequently exported the aircraft to England, where it became known as the Bird of Passage.
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Peierls became the Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford in 1963. He remained there until he retired in 1974. He wrote several books including Quantum Theory of Solids (1955), The Laws of Nature (1955), Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1979), More Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1991) and an autobiography, Bird of Passage (1985).
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Stephen performs a wedding between Absalom and Irina in prison and then returns home to Ndotsheni with Irina and Alex. Alex and the child of Arthur Jarvis meet and start to become friends ("Big Mole"). Stephen tells his flock he can no longer be their minister, and their faith is now also shaken ("A Bird of Passage"). On the still-dark morning of the execution, Stephen waits alone for the clock to strike ("Four O'Clock").
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Gudrun takes up a small farm with a cabin on it, and works the wheat fields to support her and her child. A "bird of passage" named Martin O'Neill (Hall) comes to the farm, and Gudrun feeds him. In return, he assists in the work and helps bring in the harvest, and when the barn catches fire, saves Gudrun and her child. Martin is suspected of starting the fire, and narrowly survives an attempted lynching by the excited townspeople.
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The hamsa (Sanskrit: हंस, ' or hansa) is an aquatic bird of passage, which various scholars have interpreted as the goose, the swan,Lindsay Jones (2005), Encyclopedia of religion, Volume 13, Macmillan Reference, , page 8894, Quote: "In Hindu iconography the swan personifies Brahman-Atman, the transcendent yet immanent ground of being, the Self." or even the flamingo.Denise Cush (2007), Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Routledge, , page 697 Its icon is used in Indian and Southeast Asian culture as a spiritual symbol and a decorative element. It is believed by Hindus to be the vahana (or vehicle) of Brahma, Gayatri, Saraswati, and Vishvakarma.
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Farman finally ended his collaboration with Voisin Frères after a disagreement over an aircraft they had built to his specifications and then sold to John Moore- Brabazon, who named the aircraft the Bird of Passage. This caused Farman to start building aircraft himself, the first of which was the Farman III.Villard (2002), p. 43 The aircraft sold to Moore-Brabazon, which was to become typical of the production version of the aircraft, differed from the Farman I in having the gap between the wings increased to , and was powered by a E.N.V. water-cooled V-8 engine.
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Romer gained a reputation mainly as a travel writer, based mainly on the volumes The Rhone, the Darro, and the Guadalquivir. A Summer Ramble in 1842 (1843, reprinted in 1847), A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1845–6 (1846), and The Bird of Passage, or, Flying Glimpses of Many Lands (1849), the last consisting of "a series of short stories set in Eastern Europe & the Middle East."Women Writers – Novelist, Essayists & Poets – R–Z Catalogue CXCVIII (London: Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, 2012), p. 48. Romer's first book was a fictionalized account of a controversial technique: Sturmer: a Tale of Mesmerism (1841).
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It is noted in the Domesday Book as being called "Legesdun" and the name is thought to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon words Leswe (pasture) and Dun (hill). A very small hamlet up to late Victorian times, it was developed a little after the arrival of the Sheppey Light Railway in 1903, though grand plans for the establishment of a large resort with hotels never materialised. The railway was closed in the 1950s. On 2 May 1909, John Moore-Brabazon became the first resident British citizen to make a recognised powered heavier-than-air flight in the UK flying from the Aero Club's ground at Leysdown in his Voisin biplane Bird of Passage.
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He has conducted and recorded with the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Saint-Petersburg Classical Symphony, the State Symphony of Russia, the Moussorgsky Opera Company of Saint-Petersburg, the Tchaikovsky Orchestra, the Moscow Radio TV Orchestra, and the Metro Philharmonic. In addition, he assembled a group of gifted young professional musicians, to form an international youth symphony (in Moscow). During June 2010, Spiegelman conducted a requiem concert with the Kyrgyz National Symphony in memory of the victims of the April 7, 2010 uprising in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In honor of this event, he composed a new work inspired by the great Kyrgyz author, Chengiz Aitmatov, entitled The Cry of the Bird of Passage.
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This was the first aircraft factory in the British Isles and the first factory in the world for the series production of aircraft, these being license-built copies of the Wright A biplane. It was here that John Moore- Brabazon (later Lord Brabazon of Tara) made a flight of 500 yards in his Voisin biplane The Bird of Passage, officially recognised as the first flight by a British pilot in Britain. Later in 1909, Moore-Brabazon piloted the first live cargo flight by fixed-wing aircraft. In order to disprove the adage that pigs can't fly he attached a waste-paper basket to a wing strut of his aircraft and airlifted one small pig inside the basket.
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Weill suffered a heart attack shortly after his 50th birthday and died on April 3, 1950, in New York City. He was buried in Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York. The text and music on his gravestone come from the song "A Bird of Passage" from Lost in the Stars, itself adapted from a quotation from the Venerable Bede:Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (History of the English Church and People) Book 2, Ch. 13 This is the life of men on earth: Out of darkness we come at birth Into a lamplit room, and then – Go forward into dark again. :(lyric: Maxwell Anderson) An excerpt from Maxwell Anderson's eulogy for Weill read: :I wish, of course, that he had been lucky enough to have had a little more time for his work.
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After the war, Peierls returned to the University of Birmingham, where he worked until 1963, and then was the Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford until he retired in 1974. At Birmingham he worked on nuclear forces, scattering, quantum field theories, collective motion in nuclei, transport theory and statistical mechanics, and was a consultant to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. He received many awards, including a knighthood in 1968, and wrote several books including Quantum Theory of Solids, The Laws of Nature (1955), Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1979), More Surprises in Theoretical Physics (1991) and an autobiography, Bird of Passage (1985). Concerned with the nuclear weapons he had helped to unleash, he worked on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, was President of the Atomic Scientists' Association in the UK, and was involved in the Pugwash movement.
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