The Song of Hiawatha

Posted on January 14, 2012 by pixi

CONTENTS

Introductory Note
Introduction
I. The Peace-Pipe
II. The Four Winds
III. Hiawatha’s Childhood
IV. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis
V. Hiawatha’s Fasting
VI. Hiawatha’s Friends
VII. Hiawatha’s Sailing
VIII. Hiawatha’s Fishing
IX. Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather
X. Hiawatha’s Wooing
XI. Hiawatha’s Wedding-Feast
XII. The Son of the Evening Star
XIII. Blessing the Corn-Fields
XIV. Picture-Writing
XV. Hiawatha’s Lamentation
XVI. Pau-Puk-Keewis
XVII. The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis
XVIII. The Death of Kwasind
XIX. The Ghosts
XX. The Famine
XXI. The White Man’s Foot
XXII. Hiawatha’s Departure
Vocabulary
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We are so new, as a creature. I mean, we’re the last group made, you know? And we just got here. The reptiles were on this little blob of spit and sand for 200 million years, and we just sort of grew this opposing thumb about 25 million years ago. So we are very new, and very rude, and very crass and shallow. And the only way we know to improve ourselves, for the most part, is by standing on somebody else’s neck. Not on their shoulders, but on their neck.  -  Maya Angelou

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.  -  Ghandi

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How to connect an external hard drive to an Xbox

Posted on January 5, 2012 by pixi

It sounds like it would be pretty simple to connect an external hard drive to your Xbox. Take a USB cable and plug it in to both devices, right? Wrong, as I found out.

I wanted to hook up our 1TB hard drive with all the movies and TV shows on it, as well as my music and pictures, but when I plugged it into one of the front USB ports nothing at all happened. I tried a back port, but the Xbox remained sullen and unresponsive. Continue reading →

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How to link back to an album in a NextGen Gallery

Posted on January 5, 2012 by pixi

When you use the amazing plugin NextGen Gallery for WordPress you can organise your photos into ‘Galleries’ and you can sort these into ‘Albums’ to create a folder hierarchy like you might have on your computer.

When these galleries and albums are viewed on your website they give the visitor a great way to see your pictures, but there’s one feature missing; links back to the album you just came from. I searched the internet for a solution to this but didn’t find a way I liked, so I created my own breadcrumb trail to insert. Continue reading →

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Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  -  Antonio Smith

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NextGen Gallery

Posted on January 4, 2012 by pixi

Single Picture

[singlepic id=x w=width h=height mode=web20|watermark float=left|right|center]

The singepic shortcode displays a single picture from any gallery.  Clicking on the image displays the image as you have specified on the Effects options page.  With the default Thickbox effect, the background goes gray and a larger version of the image (if available) is displayed. Continue reading →

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I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.  -  Stephen Grellet

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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.  -  William Henry Channing

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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  -  Nelson Henderson

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