ATDDTA 736 - 739 - word work

[Glenn Scheper]

Word work is all there is today.
In these pages, we meet Tancredi.
See the youtube tango!

cicerone - I had guessed chaparone!?

travel guide. Field used this word in letters about his travels.
louisville.edu/~kprayb01/WCWords.html

a guide who conducts and informs sightseers 
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Cicerone is an old term for a guide, one who conducts visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest. The word is presumably taken from Marcus Tullius Cicero, as a type of learning and eloquence. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicerone


Definitions of cordite on the Web:

Trade name for a long, tubular-grained, double-base powder used mainly in Great Britain, and one of the earliest smokeless propellants. ...
beasafehunter.org/HunterEd/glossary.html

The main British service explosive of World War I. *
www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis/2354/directory.html

explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords 
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Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants made by combining two high explosives: nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, that is it is a double-base propellant. However, Cordite N, a triple-base propellant was developed during World War II and is now used in large guns (see below). ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordite


Definitions of breech on the Web:

opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded 
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Definitions of Henry Clay Frick on the Web:

Frick: United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919) 
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Henry Clay Frick (December 19 1849 - December 2 1919) was an American industrialist and art patron. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Clay Frick


Homestead strike

Frick and Carnegie's partnership came to an end over actions taken in response to the Homestead Steel Strike, an 1892 labor strike at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company. At Homestead, striking workers had locked the company out of the factory and surrounded it with pickets, some of whom were armed. Frick was known for his anti-union policy and as negotiations were still taking place he ordered the construction of a solid board fence topped with barbed wire around mill property. The workers dubbed the newly fortified mill "Fort Frick." With the mill ringed by striking workers, Pinkerton agents planned to access the plant grounds from the river. Three hundred Pinkerton detectives assembled on the Davis Island Dam on the Ohio River about five miles below Pittsburgh at 10:30 p.m. on the night of July 5, 1892. They were given Winchester rifles, placed on two specially-equipped barges and towed upriver with the object of removing the workers by force. Upon landing, the resulting confrontation resulted in a large melee between workers and Pinkerton detectives. Several men were killed, and the riot was ultimately quelled only by the intervention of 8,000 armed state militia. Among working-class Americans, Frick's actions against the strikers were condemned as excessive, and he soon became a target of radical anarchists and others seeking to use the incident to foment labor unrest and even class warfare.
 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay_Frick


Head shot vs. gut: (see photo of Frick)

Assassination attempt

Russian-born anarchist Alexander Berkman plotted to kill Frick in revenge for the seven steelworkers killed by the Pinkerton detectives hired by Frick to disperse the locked-out workers and allow in their replacements. On July 23, 1892, Berkman, armed with a revolver and a sharpened steel file, entered Frick's office in downtown Pittsburgh.

Frick, realizing what was happening, attempted to rise from his chair while Berkman pulled a revolver and fired at nearly point-blank range. The bullet hit Frick in the left earlobe, penetrated his neck near the base of the skull, and lodged in his back. The impact hurled Frick off his feet, and Berkman fired again, again striking Frick in the neck and causing him to bleed profusely. Carnegie Steel vice president (later, president) John George Alexander Leishman, who was with Frick, was then able to grab Berkman’s arm and deflect a third shot, saving Frick's life.

Although seriously wounded, Frick rose and tackled his assailant. All three men crashed to the floor, where Berkman managed to stab Frick four times in the leg with the pointed steel file before finally being subdued by other employees, who had rushed into the office. For more than two hours doctors probed for the bullets; Frick reportedly refused anesthesia so he could help guide their efforts. As the police entered the room, guns drawn, Frick reportedly yelled, "Don't shoot! Don't kill him! The law will punish him."
 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay_Frick


Noun: dry-gulching
The act of killing from ambush
Type of: ambuscade, ambush, execution, lying in wait, murder, slaying, trap
 -- http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/DRYGULCHING


Definitions of buzzard on the Web:

In the Old World: buteonid hawks, in the New World: vultures
birding.about.com/library/weekly/aa110102a.htm

When a player hits three spares in a row.
www.greaterdenverusbc.com/youth/tips/bowling_glossary.htm

a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States 
the common European short-winged hawk 
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A buzzard is one of several large birds, but there are a number of meanings as detailed below. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzard

The Buzzard alias Hugo Van Beck is a DC Comics character who is from the fictional place of Empire City. Hugo Van Beck got into a car accident in 1929 when his life was ruined. He soon became a master criminal because of his failed financial woes. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzard (DC Comics)


Definitions of buckaroo on the Web:

vaquero: local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) 
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Buckaroo is a game of physical skill, intended for children aged four and above. Buckaroo is made by Milton Bradley, a division of toy giant Hasbro. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckaroo (game)


San Marculoa

2 links from a MAP, q.v.:
http://www.planetware.com/map/venice-north-map-i-ven_n.htm

The Church of San Marcuola was built between 1728 and 1736 by the architect Giorgio Massari, but the facade overlooking the Canal Grande was never completed. The most important works of art are "The Last Supper" by Tintoretto (1547; Presbytery, left-hand wall), a popular interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's Milan picture (1495-97), and an old copy of his "Washing of the Feet" (opposite). It is also worth noting that the altars are richly decorated not with paintings but with sculptures.

Fish Market: (p 728)

Dating only from 1907 the market hall near the Rialto Bridge was built by Domenico Rupolo and Cesare Laurenti in Gothic style on the site of the traditional fish market, its skillful architecture (especially the ingenious capitals on the columns) and the activity among the various stalls make it an attractive feature of Venice. The building was constructed according to a centuries old method on over 18,000 larch wood piles.


Definitions of sotoportego on the Web in Italian:

sottoportico, passaggio pedonale coperto.
www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/3368/pronuncia.html

Automatically translated text: 
Sottoportico, covered pedestrian passage 


"Laguna Morte"
Lots of links I didn't follow, esp. car accidents:

Thomas Pynchon Wiki: Against the Daythe San Marcuola stop Photo of the Canal Grande at San Marcuola vaporetto stop. Laguna Morte Dead Lagoon. macche Italian: "no way". It should be "macché". ...
against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_724-747

AtD MadeleinesTo Laguna Morte for a chat with Tancredi. (g739) Forces of history. (h739-41) Scarsdale Vibe to attend the ball. Hours canonical only to storm. ...
www.thirdfactory.net/atd-madeleines.html

Inland fisheries of Europe.1, last sentence: “lagune morte” not “laguna morta”. p. 255, sect. 7, last para., line 2: “more” not “move”. p. 255, footnote 1/: “Stickney” not “Stickage” ...
www.fao.org/docrep/009/t0798e/T0798E21.htm  

The Dominion of Dreams: Under the Dark Star - Google Books Resultby William Sharp - 1910 - 428 pages
The house was in a poor and unfrequented part, but the windows looked across the Laguna Morte, and from the roof- garden one might see at sundown the spires ...
books.google.com/books?id=JhEnAAAAMAAJ... 


Tan + credi:

... believe


tanto, tanti, tantissimo - a lot, so much.
 -- http://www.wordreference.com/

Andrea:

Andrew


eye·wash (wsh, wôsh)
n.
1. A solution, medicated or nonmedicated, applied as a cleanser for the eyes.
2. Informal Actions or remarks intended to conceal the facts of a situation.
 -- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/eyewash


Definitions of piratically on the Web:

in a piratical manner; "the piratically published edition of his book" 
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Definitions of piratical on the Web:

characteristic of piracy; "piratical editions of my book" 
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Piracy is robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratical


Mascaregna:

ATD again, many others, esp. names, several promising not studied:

cecil vortex: The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 14When I dance, they call me Mascaregna. Hey the Mascaregna. Posted by: Mr. Magoo at May 7, 2007 11:31 PM. i have at last caught up and am feeling lightheaded ...
cecilvortex.com/swath/2007/05/02/the_against_the_day_deathmarch_week_14.html  

Thomas Pynchon Wiki: Against the DayMascaregna "piratically bearded youth" with Tancredi, in Venice;. Mascotte 3, 128. Maskelyne cabinet 571;. Mathematics 122; 147;. Matteawan ...
against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=M 

The Chumps of Choice: Death and VeniceShe advises gut shooting him, then takes the brothers to meet the local anarchist cell of Tancredi and his pals, Mascaregna and Pugliese, who already have ...
chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/2007/07/death-and-venice.html 

[PDF] The death of the stories we used to tell On Thomas Pynchon’s ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
bearded young man named Mascaregna, “macché, Tancredi. This town was built. on buying and selling. Every one of those Great Italien Paintings sooner or ...
www.sx.ac.uk/afm/emc/novelconference/beyes_paper.pdf 

Multitudes Web - Mineure - Créoles, a cura di Jean-Yves Mondon e ...- [ Translate this page ]Questo uso specifico è la conseguenza e l’espressione della formidabile “razializzazione” che è tutt’oggi alla base della società mascaregna, in cui degli ...
multitudes.samizdat.net/spip.php?article2683 

Classici Stranieri - Biblioteca Multimediale - E-Book, MP3 ...- [ Translate this page ]Tu, Mascaregna, sebben non t'accoglie Regio splendore e dignità suprema, ... Sta Mascaregna incontro al gran torrente([18]) ...
www.classicistranieri.com/dblog/stampa.asp?articolo=3473 

[PDF] www.liberliber.it
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
Tu, Mascaregna, sebben non t'accoglie. Regio splendore e dignità suprema,. Mille vi raccorrai vittrici spoglie .... Sta Mascaregna incontro al gran torrente ...
www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/c/camoes/i_lusiadi_poema/pdf/i_lusi_p.pdf 

Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea ... - Google Books Result
Peter Mascaregna, viceroy of (1554)

The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, ... - Google Books Result
by Samuel Pasfield Oliver, François Le Guat, François Leguat - 1891 - Voyages and travels - 22 pages
Helena, 300 Turtle-land, on Mascaregna I«l¡ind. •13 ; on Rodriguez, 71 ; tee Tortoises Turtles, 99 ; fat of, 105 Turtle sea on Sal Island, 13 ; on Rodriguez ...
books.google.com/books?id=AHUMAAAAIAAJ 


We found no English translation for 'masca' in our Italian to English Dictionary.
 -- http://www.wordreference.com/iten/masca
Mosca:
Mosca (città) nf Moscow 

mosca:
mosca  nf fly (insect) 
mosca (barba) nf imperial 


regna: 

regnare:
regnare ?  v predominate (reign) 
 -- http://www.wordreference.com/iten/regna



Definitions of macche on the Web:

(pl.) baked polenta slices prepared with sausage or other toppings
www.italiancookingandliving.com/food/glossary/glossary_m.html

We found no English translation for 'macche' in our Italian to English Dictionary.
Did you mean?
bacche
mucche
macchiare
Mecca
bacca
cacca
lacca
manca
marca
mucca
pacca 
 -- http://www.wordreference.com/iten/macche


Pugliese:

pulgia - a region
pugile  nm boxer 

Pugliese bread = pan Pugliese Pronunciation: pool-yee-AY-zee Notes: This simple, 
crusty bread hails from Puglia, Italy, and is great for making sandwiches ...
www.foodsubs.com/Bread.html


VERY nice tango, if you have 3 minutes. Makes me so jealous...
 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25i1vPkyvJs
Javier Rodriguez y Andrea Misse Pugliese Tango 


"souls brought to the edge of the abyss"
recalls to me the story of Foley Walker.


Definitions of infernal machine on the Web:

time bomb: a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time 
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Definitions of infernal on the Web:

characteristic of or resembling hell; "infernal noise"; "infernal punishment" 
demonic: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war ...
blasted: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an ...
of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire; "infernal heat" 
an inhabitant of hell; "his roar made the infernals quake" 
being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions" 
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Bresci, Luccheni:
Lots of URL paths not taken...

The Anarchists Chapter 10Bresci must have been a mere spectator of the ceremony in the chapel. .... and others, and the examples successfully set in Europe by Luccheni and Bresci. ...
dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/vizetelly/vizetelly10.html  

Anarchist Encyclopedia page: Gaetano Bresci (1869-1901)Gaetano Bresci emigrated from Italy to the US, & was working & living in the ... treatment of Luccheni, a similar victim of the ruthless social struggle. ...
recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BresciGaetano.htm  

BOMBS AND DAGGERS IN ITALY OneLuccheni, Angiolillo, Carserio, Oberdank, Possan-. ante, Acciarito, Bresci, Crispi,' Gallenga' and others. more recent all belong to that infamous class of ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1741-2005.1928.tb04907.x 

Anarchism: A History Of Libertarian Ideas And Movements - Google Books Resultby George Woodcock - 2004 - Political Science - 380 pages
In 1898 Luigi Luccheni carried out one of the most abominable of all ... was finally shot by Gaetano Bresci as he was attending a country fête in Mosca. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=1551116294... 

PARTE I: 1871 - 1891- [ Translate this page ]4) una corrente individualista-terroristica facente capo a Caserio, Bresci, Luccheni. Il 15 maggio esce la "Rivista internazionale del socialismo". ...
www.ossimoro.it/socialismoit.htm  

IMMIGRATION BILL TAKEN UP.; Relative Merits of Italians and ...He said that Luccheni, who assasinated the Empress of Austria, spoke three languages; that Bresci, who killed King Humbert, was educated; that the assassin ...
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E13FC385412738DDDAB0A94DD405B828CF1D3 


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
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