But the idea that babies can be rocked to sleep is more myth than fact.
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Until recently, being rocked to sleep was a privilege that only infants and those who own hammocks could enjoy.
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People who were rocked to sleep also seemed to boost memory consolidation, the process by which memories are "cemented" into the brain.
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Natalie Sexton jokes that her earliest memory is being rocked to sleep on the machinery bottling her mother's line of all-natural juices.
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It may sound a little out there, but science has revealed that being rocked to sleep is just as beneficial for adults as it is for babies.
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My vacations were no longer relaxing adventures where I'd be rocked to sleep by lapping waves, but rather trips to their home to help where I could.
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"And Shai loves to be rocked to sleep, so [the Rocker Refined chair] is the most-used piece of furniture," says Murgatroyd, who spends about 17 hours a day in the room nursing and caring for Shai.
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Born Amy Marcy Cheney and raised in an upper-class Boston family, by the time she was 2, Beach was singing in harmony with her mother as she was rocked to sleep; by 4, she had written her first waltzes; and by 7, she was playing Beethoven sonatas along with her own compositions.
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For years he > knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like > another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman. With the > landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between > billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his > sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of > walruses and whales. > ("Nantucket," Ch. 14). Bezanson calls this chapter a comical "prose poem" that blends "high and low with a relaxed assurance".
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Information and a virtual tour of the house on Boštjan Burger's site It is fitted with 19th- century furnishings. Of the original furniture from Prešeren's time, the benches in the hallway and the main room, a wooden chest from 1837, and the actual cradle in which France Prešeren is alleged to have been rocked to sleep as a baby are preserved and displayed in the museum. In 1985, a section with a collection of books was added to the museum and includes translations of Prešeren's poems into various languages, various editions of his poems, and books about his life and work. The museum was opened to the public on 21 May 1939.
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The RVRR was also known for holding trains for passengers that were late, including school children who used the railroad to commute to school. In one story, a woman, Miss Sue Blackford, recounted a story from about 1900 when she took a trip to New Germantown (now Oldwick, New Jersey) and attempted to pay for her mother and herself with a five-dollar bill. As the conductor didn't have change for so large a bill, he asked where Miss Blackford was staying in New Germantown and the next morning delivered her change in person after walking about a half- mile from his waiting train. Miss Blackford also helped dispel the notion that the moniker "Rock-A-Bye Baby" meant that passengers were gently rocked to sleep aboard the RVRR.
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The extravagant wedding shows Khumarawayh's famous frivolity with money—indeed it has been suggested that the whole affair was, in the words of the historian , "a calculated device on the part of the caliph to wreck the finances of his dangerously wealthy and powerful vassal". Eager to display his wealth, the Tulunid ruler also built numerous palaces for himself and his favourites, and engaged in famous displays of royal extravagance, such as a quicksilver-filled basin in which he was rocked to sleep on top of air-filled cushions, or the blue-eyed lion he kept as a pet at his court. In addition, according to the sources, Khumarawayh never rode the same horse twice. He was nevertheless also a generous patron of the arts, of scholars and of poets.
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Richter, p.14 Ball completed his message in French, and the paragraph translates as: "The magazine shall be published in Zürich and shall carry the name 'Dada' ('Dada'). Dada Dada Dada Dada." The view according to which Ball had created the movement was notably supported by writer Walter Serner, who directly accused Tzara of having abused Ball's initiative.Richter, p.123 A secondary point of contention between the founders of Dada regarded the paternity for the movement's name, which, according to visual artist and essayist Hans Richter, was first adopted in print in June 1916.Richter, p.32 Ball, who claimed authorship and stated that he picked the word randomly from a dictionary, indicated that it stood for both the French-language equivalent of "hobby horse" and a German-language term reflecting the joy of children being rocked to sleep.
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