I wanted to give it a title a 17th-century book by a scholar would be likely to have. And that's how I came up with Cryptonomicon. I've heard the word Necronomicon bounced around. I haven't actually read the Lovecraft books, but clearly it's formed by analogy to that. [1] The song is said to relate the story of how he broke the heart of Bridget Belasyse of Brancepeth Castle, County Durham, where his brother Thomas was rector, when he married Anne Duncombe of Duncombe Park in Yorkshire. Bridget Belasyse is said to have died two weeks after hearing the news, [6] although other sources claim that she died a fortnight before the wedding of pulmonary tuberculosis. [5] Even if the song was not composed about him, his supporters almost certainly added a verse for the 1761 elections with the lyrics: Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea’is an eight-line nursery rhyme that’s usually contained within a single stanza of text. The lines follow a simple rhyme scheme of AAAB CCCB. Sometimes, this pattern changes depending on the version of the text. Certainly at least two of his sons entered the clergy, one of whom, Robert Moore, attracted some adverse comments himself. In 1854 an American visitor to England, Dr. Pleasant Jones, reported on the wealthy state of some of the senior members of the Anglican clergy. About Rev. Robert Moore he wrote: Several of the characters in the book communicate with each other through the use of one-time pads. A one-time pad (OTP) is an encryption technique that requires a single-use pre-shared key of at least the same length as the encrypted message.

To hold attention and to help engage the children you can show pictures and artefacts, such as a boat, the sea, waves, seagulls, merman etc. On second listening, encourage the children to retell the story using the props to help with the story sequence. Dr. Günter Enoch Bobby "G.E.B." Kivistik is introduced in the modern storyline as a smug, Oxford-educated liberal-arts professor from Yale who recruits, and later seduces, Randy Waterhouse's girlfriend, Charlene. In the World War II storyline he is the unborn son of Julieta Kivistik and one of three possible fathers (hence his unusual name) including Günter Bischoff, Enoch Root and Bobby Shaftoe. He is a minor character in Cryptonomicon, but both his [impending] birth and his participation in Charlene's "War as Text" conference catalyze major plot developments. Goto Dengo, a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army and a mining engineer involved in an Axis project to bury looted gold in the Philippines. In the present-day storyline, he is a semi-retired chief executive of a large Japanese construction company, Goto Engineering. The action takes place in two periods—World War II and the late 1990s, during the Internet boom and the Asian financial crisis.United States. Patent Office (1886). Specifications and Drawings of Patents Relating to Electricity Issued by the U. S. pp.80–81. In the new element there can be used advantageously as exciting-liquid in the first case such solutions as have in a concentrated condition great depolarizing-power, which effect the whole depolarization chemically without necessitating the mechanical expedient of increased carbon surface. It is preferred to use iron as the positive electrode, and as exciting-liquid nitro muriatic acid, ( aqua regis,) the mixture consisting of muriatic and nitric acids. The nitro-muriatic acid, as explained above, serves for filling both cells. For the carbon-cells it is used strong or very slightly diluted, but for the other cells very diluted, (about one-twentieth, or at the most one-tenth.) The element containing in one cell carbon and concentrated nitro-muriatic acid and in the other cell iron and dilute nitro-muriatic acid remains constant for at least twenty hours when employed for electric incandescent lighting. As if more proof were needed of the interconnection of the political families around that time, in 1923 George and Katherine’s daughter, Lady Gwendolen Fanny Godolphin Osborne, married Algernon Cecil, the nephew of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister 1885-1886, 1886-1892, and 1895-1902. Arthur James Balfour The song is said to relate how Bobby Shafto (frequently spelled "Shaftoe") broke the heart of Bridget Belasyse when he decided to marry Anne Duncombe. Robert Shafto’s supporters added additional lyrics to the song during the 1761 election campaign. John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury

Circa 1997, Randy Waterhouse (Lawrence's grandson) joins his old role-playing game companion Avi Halaby in a new startup, providing Pinoy-grams (inexpensive, non-real-time video messages) to migrant Filipinos via new fiber-optic cables. The Epiphyte Corporation uses this income stream to fund the creation of a data haven in the nearby fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Vietnam veteran Doug Shaftoe, the son of Bobby Shaftoe, and his daughter Amy do the undersea surveying for the cables and engineering work on the haven, which is overseen by Goto Furudenendu, heir-apparent to Goto Engineering. Complications arise as figures from the past reappear seeking gold or revenge.

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Throughout ‘ Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea’ there are a few interesting literary devices that readers should take note of. The examples included below come from the most popular version of the song. Tom Howard, a member of Epiphyte(2), a libertarian and firearms enthusiast who is an expert in large computer installations. Uncle” Otto Kivistik, Julieta's uncle, who runs a successful smuggling ring between neutral Sweden, Finland, and the USSR during World War II. In the next four lines, the speaker describes Bobby’s appearance further. He is bright and fair. Perhaps this refers again to his attractiveness or perhaps to the way he carries himself. When she adds the line about his yellow hair, it seems to suggest that she’s thinking about his appearance a great deal. He’s a good and beautiful man who the speaker knows she’s going to love “for evermore.” Although a promoter of Sunday-schools and foreign missions, he did not escape reproach for paying undue regard to the interests of his family. It has been well said that during his tenure of office and that of his immediate successor, the sinecures and pluralities held by the highest clergy were worthy of the medieval period.”

Anaphora: a type of repetition that occurs when the poet repeats the same word or words at the beginning of lines. In this case, “Bobby Shafto’s” starts the first line and fifth line.N. Katherine Hayles (1 October 2005). My mother was a computer: digital subjects and literary texts. University of Chicago Press. pp.140–141. ISBN 978-0-226-32148-6 . Retrieved 31 May 2011. Repeat the song and follow the instructions/encourage the children to join in adding actions as below. Anders, Charlie Jane (July 10, 2012). "10 Science Fiction Novels You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Actually Read Them)". io9 . Retrieved June 25, 2013. Cryptonomicon cypher-FAQ". cyberpunk.us. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017 . Retrieved 1 December 2022. Andrew Loeb, a former friend and now Randy's enemy, a survivalist and neo-Luddite whose lawsuits destroyed Randy and Avi's first start-up, and who at the time of the novel works as a lawyer for Hubert Kepler. He is referred to by Randy as " Gollum," comparing him to that character in the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien.