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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Stuart Fugerson, From the Rhine to the Wild West; Four months after
Tocqueville, another European aristocrat toured America and wrote down what
he saw. Wall Street Journal, Feb 2, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748703439504576116711270258944.html
(book review on Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher (ed), The North
American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied. Volumes I & II. University
of Oklahoma Press, 1833)
My comment:
(a) American Fur Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fur_Company
(The American Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor in 1808.[1] The
company grew to monopolize the fur trade in the United States by 1830, and
became one of the largest businesses in the country. The company was one the
first great trusts in American business. It went out of business in 1842.)
* I introduced John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) before, in
Michael Taube, The Riches Came Pelting Down; How the quest for beaver, otter
and buffalo fueled America's westward expansion. Wall Street Journal, July
10, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052
748703509404575300743173582892.html
(book review on Eric Jay Dolin, Fur, Fortune, and Empire. Norton, 2010)
(b) Fort Benton, Montana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Benton,_Montana
(a city in and the county seat of Chouteau County, Montana; population 1,594
at the 2000 census; With the decline of the fur trade, the American Fur
Company sold the fort to the US Army in 1865, which named it for Senator
Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri)
(c) amidships (adv): "in or toward the part of a ship midway between bow and
stern"
www.m-w.com
(d) blockhouse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockhouse
(e) pooh-bah (n; character in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Mikado (1885)
bearing the title Lord-High-Everything-Else):
"1: a person holding many public or private offices
2: a person in high position or of great influence
(f) Joslyn Art Museum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joslyn_Art_Museum
(The museum opened in 1931, a gift to the people of Omaha from Sarah H.
Joslyn in memory of her husband, George A. Joslyn)
It is non-profit.
(g) parapet (n; Italian parapetto, from parare to shield (from Latin, to
prepare) + petto chest, from Latin pectus):
"1: a wall, rampart, or elevation of earth or stone to protect soldiers
2: a low wall or railing to protect the edge of a platform, roof, or bridge
—called also parapet wall"
See an illustration in
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parapet |
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