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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. The mountain is named for a
globe-trotting historical figure who brought his expertise to Australia
as well. 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... (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 <kate@dnki.net></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 "The night they drove old Dixie down" Hirst puts an
epitaph from Kosciuszcko</i>, 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. </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. 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.<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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