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Kate Parker Adams kate@dnki.net
Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:15:14 -0400


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I realized that from get go, actually.  The mountain is named for a 
globe-trotting historical figure who brought his expertise to Australia as 
well.  Leave it to the Oils ...

At 04:47 AM 10/7/03 -0700, Jess Clark wrote:
>Um...
>I don't think the Kosciuszko in the song is a person-- I think its about 
>the PLACE in Australia...    (There, now you've got an excuse to go back 
>and listen to that album for a few days)
>But that's not a heavy duty mistake from someone who thinks I'm a man....
>-Jess
>
>Kate Parker Adams <kate@dnki.net> wrote:
>At 08:22 PM 10/6/03 -0400, Virgil Thomas Alexander Morant wrote:
>>For instance, at the beginning of the chapter "The night they drove old 
>>Dixie down" Hirst puts an epitaph from Kosciuszcko, which seems fitting 
>>for a chapter that seems to be about life south of the Mason-Dixon.  I 
>>would guess, though, that very few outside of Australia have any idea 
>>what this song is all about.
>
>I haven't read the book, but I did know who Kosciuszko was when I first 
>heard the song. My father, a history buff who trained himself to be a 
>civil engineer while working as a laborer on road building crews, holds 
>the great man in very high esteem.
>
>A designer of fortifications during the Revolutionary War in the US, 
>Kosciuszko was apparently as brilliant a tactician and mass-escape artist 
>as an architect, leading several critically effective retreats across 
>tricky rivers and terrain intended to stall pursuing redcoats.  He 
>returned to P! oland after the US was formed and was exiled after leading 
>a failed revolution.  He fled from prison to Philidelphia after he agreed 
>to permanent exile and received a hero's welcome for his contributions to 
>revolutionary escapes and victories - including in Virginia and the Carolinas.
>
>There is a lot more about Kosciusko's contributions to the US at 
>http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_kosciu.htm , among other places.
>
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I realized that from get go, actually.&nbsp; The mountain is named for a
globe-trotting historical figure who brought his expertise to Australia
as well.&nbsp; Leave it to the Oils ...<br><br>
At 04:47 AM 10/7/03 -0700, Jess Clark wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Um...<br>
I don't think the Kosciuszko in the song is a person-- I think its about
the PLACE in Australia...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (There, now you've got an
excuse to go back and listen to that album for a few days)<br>
But that's not a heavy duty mistake from someone who thinks I'm a
man....<br>
-Jess<br><br>
<b><i>Kate Parker Adams &lt;kate@dnki.net&gt;</i></b> wrote:<br>

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<dd>At 08:22 PM 10/6/03 -0400, Virgil Thomas Alexander Morant 
wrote:<br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times">For instance, at the beginning of
the chapter &quot;The night they drove old Dixie down&quot; Hirst puts an
epitaph from Kosciuszcko</i>, which seems fitting for a chapter that
seems to be about life south of the Mason-Dixon.&nbsp; I would guess,
though, that very few outside of Australia have any idea what this song
is all about.&nbsp; </font></blockquote><br>

<dd>I haven't read the book, but I did know who Kosciuszko was when I
first heard the song. My father, a history buff who trained himself to be
a civil engineer while working as a laborer on road building crews, holds
the great man in very high esteem.<br><br>

<dd>A designer of fortifications during the Revolutionary War in the US,
Kosciuszko was apparently as brilliant a tactician and mass-escape artist
as an architect, leading several critically effective retreats across
tricky rivers and terrain intended to stall pursuing redcoats.&nbsp; He
returned to P! oland after the US was formed and was exiled after leading
a failed revolution.&nbsp; He fled from prison to Philidelphia after he
agreed to permanent exile and received a hero's welcome for his
contributions to revolutionary escapes and victories - including in
Virginia and the Carolinas.<br><br>

<dd>There is a lot more about Kosciusko's contributions to the US at
<a href="http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_kosciu.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_kosciu.htm</a>
, among other places.<br><br>

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<dd>&quot;She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in,<br>

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